Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Software Engineer (Senior Analytical Developer)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We're looking for a passionate full Senior Software Engineer (C# .Net, React.JS, MVC, SQL Server, Azure) to help take our products and technology platforms to the next level. You'll be working with a solid tech platform primarily based around Microsoft .Net Core, React, and SQL Server. You'll be part of a flexible, fun and rewarding team environment, which values people over process. We want everyone to feel confident to create and contribute to the business and the product straight away. Working directly under the Head of Development, this is a great opportunity to enhance your skills and work on some high-profile products which support the NHS in England. Our organisation is critically dependent on data and information to understand and support the NHS. The Senior Developers are key team members, using in-depth knowledge and experience of cloud-based applications, Microsoft and other development tools to advise and mentor other team members in addition to leading the development of online customer-facing applications.
Main duties of the job
This role will be principally responsible for the delivering the application and Business Intelligence output required for the Model Hospital / Model Health Service and other Improvement products. These innovative new solutions for NHS Trusts will be pivotal in enabling NHS Trusts to identify and realise local operational productivity gains and improvements in quality, safety and efficiency. The role holder will have responsibility to deliver regular product releases and develop effective development processes to ensure robust, quality and timely delivery of data updates.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose 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
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This advert has an attached Job Description and Assignment Brief relating to role currently vacant.
Key skills and attributes:
• Advanced skills in object-oriented software engineering and developing dynamic data-driven applications in the Microsoft .Net framework using C#, MVC, and .Net Core
• Strong skills in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SASS
• Strong SQL Server skills and the ability to construct efficient T-SQL statements, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Strong skills in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SASS
• Strong SQL Server skills and the ability to construct efficient T-SQL statements, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge in software development, architecture and design with experience of appropriate and representative languages, frameworks, platforms and tools; including knowledge of software delivery methodologies, information processing & standards, security, infrastructure and information governance.
- Significant knowledge of delivering and operating end-to-end from writing code to operating / maintaining, and continuous improvement.
Experience
Essential criteria
- In-depth experience of technically leading one or more software development teams, solving complex enterprise problems, developing such capabilities within teams and through the coordination of external suppliers.
- Demonstratable experience in the ""devops"" ownership of systems in their totality; encompassing their application architectures and supporting infrastructures, taking operational responsibility for their entire lifetimes, able to lead the creation of new products from inception to deprecation.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to develop knowledge and skills of teams, serving as a role model for a learning culture which values patterns and practices over specific technology implementations.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified to Master’s degree level in a suitable technical, scientific or mathematical subject (or equivalent)
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Beckett
- Job title
- Deputy DIR Strategic Engineering & Integration
- Email address
- [email protected]
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