We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The postholder is responsible for designing the technical architecture of all our systems and cloud infrastructure and ensuring alignment to the charity’s technology roadmap and principles working together with another solution architect. They develop and maintain the solution architecture aligned to the strategy and business goals, taking individual project scope and requirements to build relevant solutions underpinned by a common data model and working in conjunction with the key stakeholders across the charity. They take a lead on stakeholder engagement and hold a robust understanding of all the operations and activities that the charity carries out.

About You

To be successful in this role, you’d hold appropriate industry standard qualifications e.g. TOGAF, ITIL or experience of delivering Solutions level Architecture to ensure the best use of data, ideally in the context of handling legacy systems and Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with excellent stakeholder management

About the Role

• Lead product design in terms of technology, ensuring all stakeholders understand the solution design and that technical decisions are effectively and clearly communicated both within DDAT and to business stakeholders
• Lead and own the technical roadmap together with our second Solution Architect, which includes security, platforms and technical stacks, ensuring alignment with the overall technical strategy, business operations and associated processes
• Responsible for ensuring technical architecture translates into programme delivery with regards to solutions with a significant technology element. Support new technology solution and change roll-outs including consultation with stakeholders and communication with affected parties and the rest of the organisation as necessary.
• Work closely with Product Owners to gain a solid understanding of each of the products to be delivered
• Work to a DevOps methodology within assigned squads under the direction of the Product Owner

 Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk 

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.   

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.