Technical Lead, Digital Solutions & Platform Innovation

NHS BUSINESS SERVICES AUTHORITY; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Thrive learning culture

Health & wellbeing support

Job summary

NHS Blood and Transplant is seeking a Technical Lead for the Product Centre to steer the technical direction of complex digital products and services. You will collaborate with Architecture to adopt latest technologies and lead continuous improvement in development standards, practices and ways of working.

The role is hybrid with home and centre-based work, reporting to the Head of Product Centre. You will manage suppliers and deputise when required, shaping capabilities across NHSBT.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience in design, development, management and maintenance of information systems across an organisation.
• Advanced software development experience across C#, .NET Framework 6.0+ inc. ASP.NET/MVC, .NET Core.
• Proven experience with HTML, JavaScript, XML, JSON, SQL databases and cloud tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decisions for complex, high-risk digital products.
• Structure and develop the Product Centre team with internal and external resources.
• Estimate and plan development sprints with Delivery Managers and Product Managers.
• Drive long-term technical product strategy, testing across systems and products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support digital services and databases.

Skills

C# / .NET 6+

ASP.NET / MVC

Visual Studio

OOAD / UML

HTML / JavaScript / JQuery

XML / JSON

Oracle / SQL Server

Network protocols (HTTP / SOAP)

Agile / Lean / Traditional

SOLID principles

Progressive Web Apps

Azure / Cloud tech

Other Cloud Providers (OCI)

Testing strategies

Testing tools (MS Test / NUnit / TestR

Selenium

ITIL guidance

Change Management

Resource management

Education

MSc in Computer Science or related

Significant industrial experience equivalent to Masters

Job description

NHS Blood and Transplant is seeking a Technical Lead for the Product Centre to steer the technical direction of complex digital products and services. You will collaborate with Architecture to adopt latest technologies and lead continuous improvement in development standards, practices and ways of working.

The role is hybrid with home and centre-based work, reporting to the Head of Product Centre. You will manage suppliers and deputise when required, shaping capabilities across NHSBT.