Senior Integration and Platform Developer

NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board is seeking a Senior Integration and Platform Developer to provide senior technical leadership for cloud-based data, integration and interoperability services in the Connected Care ecosystem. You will work with the Lead Platform Engineer to own the data integration platform and Azure resources, enabling secure, interoperable information for clinicians and care teams.

The role requires deep Azure, data engineering and DevOps expertise, plus experience

Qualifications

• Degree or master's in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent senior technical experience.
• Significant practical experience with Azure cloud services, data engineering, DevOps and system integration.
• Experience leading technical delivery and managing a team, including budget involvement.
• Ability to present complex technical detail to a range of stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
• Understanding of the NHS landscape, ICBs and direct care functions.
• Experience of budget responsibility and procurement processes.

Responsibilities

• Leading hands-on technical delivery across development, coding, data engineering and interoperability workstreams for the Connected Care platform.
• Maintaining Azure-based data and integration platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL and Azure Health Data Services.
• Ensuring solutions meet quality, performance, security and interoperability standards, including FHIR.
• Leading project teams in delivery of integration and platform work, managing risks and dependencies.
• Holding budget responsibility for assigned function and resources.
• Line managing and developing engineers, including recruitment, appraisal and performance management.
• Promoting best practice in coding, DevOps, testing, documentation and governance.

Skills

Azure cloud

Data engineering

Interoperability

DevOps

Budget management

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Education

Degree or master's in CS/SE/Data Eng or related discipline

Job description

Senior Integration and Platform Developer

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Thames Valley Integrated Care Board is looking for a Senior Integration and Platform Developer to provide senior technical leadership in the design, development and delivery of our cloud-based data, integration and interoperability services.

Connected Care is Thames Valley's expert-led, integrated healthcare-data ecosystem. Since 2016 it has grown from a simple shared care record into a powerful intelligence tool enabling provider collaboration and proactive, direct patient care across the Thames Valley system. This is a direct care function, not a commissioning role.

You'll work closely with the Lead Platform Engineer and the wider platform team, taking hands-on technical ownership of our data integration platform and Azure resources - a custom-built part of Connected Care that expands the data available to the shared care record and integrates insights back from the population health system into clinical records - to keep clinicians and care teams supported with reliable, secure and interoperable information.

You'll play a central technical role in one of the largest Connected Care programmes in the country, working alongside the Lead Platform Engineer to shape how data integration and Azure infrastructure support direct patient care for 2.5 million people across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Location: One of Thames Valley ICB's offices

Function: Connected Care / Population Health, Analytics and Planning

Main duties of the job

Leading hands-on technical delivery across development, coding, data engineering and interoperability workstreams for our Connected Care platform.

Supporting and maintaining Azure-based data and integration platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL and Azure Health Data Services.

Ensuring delivered solutions meet agreed quality, performance, security and interoperability standards, including FHIR.

Leading project teams in the delivery of integration and platform work, managing risks, dependencies and stakeholders.

Holding budget responsibility for assigned function/team resources, including technical procurement.

Line managing and developing engineers, including recruitment, appraisal and performance management

Promoting best practice in coding, DevOps, testing, documentation and technical governance.

Working for our organisation

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles. We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.

At our Organisation, our selection process ensures we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We monitor AI use in applications and remain alert to misuse that misrepresents abilities. You must declare any AI use when submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You'll be an experienced senior technical professional in software development, data engineering or cloud infrastructure, ready to take hands-on technical ownership within a complex, multi-organisational NHS environment. You'll have:

A degree or master's in computer science, software engineering, data engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent senior technical experience.

Significant practical experience with Azure cloud services, data engineering, DevOps and system integration

Experience leading technical delivery and managing a team, including budget involvement.

The ability to present complex technical detail to a range of stakeholders and manage competing priorities.

An understanding of the NHS landscape - ICBs, NHS England, and how strategic commissioning and direct care functions relate.

The post holder will provide senior technical leadership in the design, development and delivery of cloud-based data, integration and interoperability services, supporting the organisation’s transformation and digital strategy.

The role combines advanced software development, data engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise to deliver robust, scalable and secure integration and data platform solutions. The post holder will lead hands-on technical delivery across development, coding, data engineering and interoperability workstreams, ensuring high-quality services aligned to NHS standards and best practice.

The job description and person specification outline the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree or master's level in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent experience working at a senior technical level in a specialist digital or data environment.

Knowledge, Experience

• Evidence of post-qualification and continuing professional development in relevant technologies such as Azure cloud services, data engineering, DevOps, interoperability or cyber security.
• Extensive knowledge of software development, data engineering, cloud infrastructure and system integration, acquired through formal training and significant practical experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies or possession of relevant technical certifications (e.g. Azure Developer or Data Engineer, HL7/FHIR, BCS) is desirable.
• Strong understanding of NHS digital and data strategy, national interoperability standards and healthcare information governance, and appreciation of their implications for technical solution design.
• A good understanding of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, Integrated Care Systems (including Integrated Care Boards), and individual provider organisations.
• Experience of interpreting national policy and experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (e.g. advising on policy implementation).
• Experience of managing and motivating a team, including managing performance of individuals and team.
• Experience of working with, and building and developing successful professional relationships with, a range of stakeholders (internal and external).
• Previous experience of budget responsibility, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel etc.) with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.

Skills, Capabilities, Attributes

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues (e.g. performance and change).
• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to sponsor/manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
• Able to make decisions autonomously when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Able to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Able to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.

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