Overview
We are seeking an experienced Digital Assurance Lead to provide technical leadership and independent assurance across major healthcare infrastructure and capital programmes.
This is a senior assurance and governance role focused on reviewing, challenging, and assuring digital designs, technology infrastructure solutions, and smart building strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted technical authority, ensuring digital solutions align with programme standards, design requirements, governance frameworks, and best practice while identifying risks, non-compliances, and integration challenges before they impact delivery.
This is not a digital transformation, software delivery, or product management role.
We are looking for someone with hands-on experience reviewing and assuring complex digital infrastructure and technology designs within large-scale built environment programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead independent technical assurance reviews of digital and technology design submissions.
- Assess designs against agreed standards, specifications, governance frameworks, and programme requirements.
- Review digital infrastructure, technology, and smart building solutions throughout the design lifecycle.
- Identify, document, and escalate technical risks, integration issues, and non-compliances.
- Produce assurance reports, validation outputs, technical reviews, and exception documentation.
- Provide expert input into design reviews, approval gateways, and technical governance forums.
- Monitor digital design maturity and ensure projects are progressing in line with programme expectations.
- Coordinate specialist input across technology infrastructure, data, smart buildings, and connected systems.
- Challenge and support multidisciplinary design teams to achieve compliant and effective solutions.
- Work closely with architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders to resolve complex technical issues.
- Support knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across project teams.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience in digital assurance, technical assurance, design assurance, architecture governance, or technical authority roles.
- Experience reviewing and approving complex digital, technology, or infrastructure designs.
- Strong understanding of technology infrastructure, networks, systems integration, and enterprise technologies.
- Experience working within large-scale capital projects, infrastructure programmes, healthcare estates, government projects, aviation, rail, defence, or similarly complex environments.
- Ability to identify technical risks, challenge designs, and drive resolution through effective stakeholder engagement.
- Experience producing formal assurance, governance, and technical review documentation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior technical and non-technical audiences.
Highly Desirable
- Healthcare or NHS programme experience.
- Digital infrastructure within the built environment.
- Smart buildings, intelligent buildings, or connected estate technologies.
- RIBA design stages and construction project lifecycle knowledge.
- Technology master planning and systems integration experience.
- Knowledge of healthcare technology environments and associated governance processes.
- Experience working as a Design Authority, Technical Authority, Digital Assurance Manager, Technical Assurance Lead, or Senior Solution Architect.