Development Team Leader

Northumbria Group.; Fleet; Remote; GBP 79,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare is seeking a Dev Team Lead/Manager to direct a growing development team delivering enterprise systems for frontline NHS staff from the Fleet Solutions site. You will steer modernisation from legacy ASP.NET/PHP/SQL to .NET, React and cloud-first, with an agile, delivery-focused culture.

You will shape technical strategy, foster collaboration with PMs/POs/BAs, and ensure high standards while expanding the digital portfolio.

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience plus in-depth technical and strategic knowledge.
• Experience leading development teams in an agile environment.
• Strong track record in resource planning, estimation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement development process for the team.
• Provide technical guidance and set code quality standards.
• Collaborate with Project Managers/Product Owners on new work and estimation.
• Manage team resourcing and report to Deputy Director of Development.
• Balance hands-on coding with ensuring delivery team efficiency.
• Lead modernisation from legacy tech to .NET, React, Cloud First, Event Driven apps.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methods

People management

Software architecture

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

.NET

React

Azure

Azure DevOps

Job description

Site Digital Services, Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub Town Seaton Deleval Salary £79,504 - £91,609 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

You will be responsible for leading the development team working on a range of enterprise systems built upon modern technology stacks. You will have a strong background leading development teams within an agile setting and have the desire and enthusiasm to deliver but also innovate.

The development team are responsible for providing systems to frontline staff at the point of patient care. The team and supporting teams have expanded over the last year with a plan of continued recruitment and investment in the team to be a leader within the NHS.

The position is based in Fleet Solutions, and you will be responsible for initially driving a shift from legacy solutions written in asp.net, PHP and SQL (stored procedures) to modern .NET, React, Cloud First, Event Driven applications.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• You will be responsible of defining process that our dev team follows and ensuring the development team take responsibility to implement
• Technically adept you will provide assistance/guidance to the dev team and define best practice in relation to code quality and standards
• Working closely with Project Managers/Product Owners you will provide insight towards new development work via agreed changes, estimates and also innovative changes that come from within the development team
• You will take responsiblity for resourcing the team correctly and reporting in to the Deputy Director of Development to expand and deliver on a strong Digital Vision
• You can have the capacity to be actively involved with development work but not at the detriment of an efficiently functioning delivery team as you will be core to the teams success
• You will be working on existing and green field solutions that use the latest technologies with a large variety of projects to get involved with
• You will operate in a cloud first development environment and we would look to you to introduce new tools/approaches to improve development lifecycle.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of the Change Framework, promoting awareness of and adherence to the process within the team

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• As Dev Team Lead/Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing the application development team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust delivering on a range of systems with the Digital Services department. This will include the management of Backend and Frontenddevelopers and you will be expected to have deep technical knowledge and experience.
• You will have experience of working in a development environment and either experience of a similar role or being a senior developer/senior QA tester/product manager looking to move in to dev team leadership.
• Your primary focus is to provide leadership and line management to developers who are working on new projects and supporting existing services. You will work collaboratively to define common approaches to application development and integration and ensure development standards are documented and maintained by the team.
  Within your role, you will be developing the teams' adoption of agile ways of working alongside, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Business Analysts. You will be successful in supporting teams to adopt new tools and approaches to development and continue to change as theorganisation expands its portfolio of internally developed systems.
• Development teams main tech stacks/approaches are .NET / React / Micro Services / Azure / Azure DevOps
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning
  and quality improvement and (c) facilitates tea working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• Lead the modernisation of our Fleet applications, from asp.net, PHP and SQL (stored procedures) to modern .NET, React, Cloud First, Event Driven applications.

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience plus in-depth technical and strategic knowledge.

Experience

• Strong technical skills obtained as a Lead Developer
• Experience working with Agile and Scrum Teams
• Experience in resource planning and scheduling, estimation, and reporting on progress
• Previous experience managing a development team
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Name Lloyd Rodrigues Powell Job title Head of Development Email address [e-mail]