Technical Lead

Bupa; Stretford; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Health insurance

Pension plan

Onsite gym/discounts

Other benefits

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Technical Lead to steer clinical and operational systems within Health Services Technology. You will provide hands-on leadership, translate healthcare needs into safe, reliable solutions, and work with Product Managers, clinicians and tech colleagues to align with architectural direction.

The role offers up to 3 days WFH, 37.5 hours per week, and a salary from £70,000 with a 10% bonus and strong benefits across the UK locations (Manchester, London or Staines).

Qualifications

• Experience leading healthcare interoperability projects.
• Ability to translate clinical needs into delivery plans.
• Proven track record delivering scalable services in regulated environments.
• Strong collaboration with Product Managers and clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across clinical/operational systems.
• Lead a team of engineers and technical specialists.
• Translate clinical needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Coordinate with Product Owners to ensure technically sound solutions.
• Own end-to-end interoperability and integration delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Healthcare domain knowledge

Stakeholder communication

People leadership

Agile delivery

Matrix management

Tools

HL7 v2

FHIR

DICOM

SNOMED CT

Job description

Job Description:

Technical Lead

Permanent: up to 3 days WFH

Manchester, London or Staines

Salary from: £70k DOE and location + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As a Technical Lead in Bupa’s Health Services Technology team, you’ll provide technical leadership in a critical clinical and operational product, translating customer healthcare needs into safe, reliable and supportable solutions. Working within a product team, you’ll partner closely with the Product Manager, clinicians, operational leaders and technology colleagues to ensure what we deliver improves outcomes, protects continuity of care and aligns to our strategic and architectural direction.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Provide clear technical leadership across clinical and operational systems
• Build and lead a team of engineers and technical specialists
• Translate clinical and operational needs into actionable delivery plans
• Enable evidence-based decisions by articulating patient safety, clinical risk, information governance, security and operational impacts
• Build strong relationships with clinicians, practice managers, operational service owners and technology teams, influencing decisions to protect continuity of care
• Coach and develop your team to improve clinical systems capability raising quality and reducing operational risk
• Work in close partnership with Product Owners, constructively challenging intent and prioritisation to ensure solutions are technically sound, safe, and aligned to long term outcomes
• Lead delivery and ongoing optimisation of clinically critical platforms and workflows (e.g., PAS, EMR, PACS and specialist systems), ensuring safe, reliable operation
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership for clinical and operational delivery, coordinating technical SMEs, suppliers and service teams across projects of varying scope and complexity.
• Own end-to-end interoperability and integration delivery (design, mapping, testing, deployment and monitoring), including standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD-9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable

What you’ll bring:

• Comfortable working with clinical stakeholders and governance
• Healthcare interoperability and integration engineering, including interface specifications, mapping, test evidence and monitoring for standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable
• Product and Agile operating methods; experience leading delivery in healthcare/product environments where service continuity and governance are essential.
• Communicates clearly and pragmatically, tailoring messages to audience and context (delivery decisions, governance, operational impact) across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• People leadership experience: building capability, setting standards, and leading mixed teams in regulated/operationally sensitive environments
• Experience leading within matrix environments with blended teams.
• Provides clear technical direction within the product team, making and owning architectural and design decisions aligned to organisational standards
• Structured approach to problem solving and designing software solutions, backed by extensive experience delivering performant, scalable services end-to-end

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.