TIS Principal Developer

NHS England; Remote; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare service provider is seeking a Trainee Information System Principal Developer to lead technical initiatives in digital products aimed at improving medical education. This role involves managing technical teams, leading software strategies, and ensuring solutions meet user needs. With a salary of £76,965 to £88,682 per year, this opportunity offers an essential role in enhancing services across NHS England offices nationwide. Successful candidates will demonstrate expertise in cloud technologies and user-centered design.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing a technical strategy for complex services.
• Managing and developing technical staff in a user-facing service.
• Significant experience in cloud and open-source services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve software development strategy.
• Ensure technical staff are well managed and supported.
• Stay updated with best practices in technology.

Skills

Web services and solutions

Open source and cloud technologies

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

User-centred design

Education

Evidence of continued professional development

Tools

Java

AWS

DevOps

Job description

The Trainee Information System (TIS) Principal Developer role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of service that is delivering positive change to our users and stakeholders. We are multi-disciplinary agile team that develops and maintains digital products and services aimed at supporting and improving Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (PMDE) and other professions.

This role is the key technical leadership role in TIS and sets the direction for software development, both to ensure our technical colleagues are well led and professionally supported, but also to ensure our solutions are robust, secure and scalable, and that they are aligned to user need. Currently, we have an establishment of 24 technical staff, of which we have 11 vacancies.

You will work closely with the product managers and lead developers in TIS and with oinkt services, such as our recruitment service that requires strategic technical input and assurance.

TIS is a national team and although we have two "hubs" in London and Manchester, you can base yourself from any NHS England office across the country subject to approval.

Main duties of the job

You will be a technical expert with specialist knowledge and experience in software development, technical standards, and best practice, as well as an experienced manager capable of providing technical and professional leadership and working effectively with others.

Responsibilities include:

• Significant experience in web services and solutions, ideally open source and cloud technologies. We are Java and AWS centred, with DevOps.
• Leading and continuously improving software development strategy which underpins our approach to software development and support within TIS and associated services.
• Responsible for technical staff. Setting up effective line management and professional support and ensuring we have the right mix of capability and capacity to meet priorities.
• Staying up to date with best practice and profession-based standards and techniques, including developing and improving practices within the teams to enable delivery.
• Working with lead developers and others to ensure the product/service teams have the skills, personalities, and seniority to support delivery for users and stakeholders.
• Identify links to enhance collaboration and opportunities within and outside the team.
• Advocating for user-centred design and agile adoption that enhances the delivery of high-quality digital products and services that meet our users' needs.
• Ensuring alignment to the technical aspects of the Service Standard, the Technology Code of Practice and other governance and compliance.

About us

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms -- including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of developing a technical strategy/roadmap for a complex service
• Evidence of managing and professionally developing technical staff in a user-facing service/function
• Evidence of significant experience in cloud and open-source services

Skills

• Evidence of expertise in various technical and specialist areas with regards to software development and continuous deployment
• Evidence of leadership
• Evidence of developing and managing staff across agile and user-centred multi-disciplinary service teams

Salary

£76,965 to £88,682 a year per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)