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Building on recent digital investment, my client have a leading role in delivering the national programmes needed for modern technology-enabled healthcare. These are large-scale developments that will make a significant difference to the people of the UK .
This role requires an exceptionally high level of technical expertise. The post holder is expected to have the skill to routinely analyse and solve highly complex technical problems without the need to call upon others for advice, whilst providing technical guidance to a team of software developers. The post holder must also be capable of taking the lead in developing software components for National applications and ensuring they are rigorously built
and tested in accordance with software industry best practice.
The post holder shall be expected to:
- Identify and assist the Software Development Manager with the introduction of continual improvements and refinements to the practices used to develop software within the organisation.
- Working with other staff across development teams, identify and implement continual improvements to development practice (for example continuous integration, automated unit testing, code reviews, gated check-ins of code and estimating techniques).
- Working with other staff across development teams, identify opportunities for code sharing and implement common by design software components (such as authentication and authorisation and messaging handling libraries.)
- Contribute to the production of suitable quality control records (such as problem or change records) for application and system software changes.
- Assist team members in ensuring that software applications have full patch and version control in place and that the organisation has a comprehensive record of all these amendments.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven experience of software development in a formal development environment.
- Experience developing software for Clinical Information or Healthcare systems
- Experience with .Net and FHIR standards.
- Expert knowledge in advanced principles of object oriented design.
- Expert knowledge in API and RPC development.
- A thorough understanding of the following development practices:-
- CI/CD.
- Automated unit testing
- Evidence of extensive experience with Windows PC, server operating systems, cloud hosting.
- Expert knowledge in the development of relational database systems using and associated database administration activities.
- Highly skilled in the application or web development using a suitable IDE and programming language.
Ability and confidence to speak publicly to groups of people, demonstrating ideas, concepts and working software and answer related questions.
