Technical Lead

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team who are transforming the digital and technology services that support Organ Tissue Donation and Transplantation. As one of the Technical Leads for the Product Centre you will be part of the leadership team responsible for designing, developing and delivering innovative solutions to save and improve people’s lives.

You will be responsible for leading the definition and implementation of Digital development standards and strategies, driving continuous improvement of our products and ways of working.

You will work with the Architecture team to lead on research and development to ensure NHSBT is able to take advantage of the latest technology and best practice available.

This is a hybrid role with a mixture of home working and NHSBT centre-based working. Reporting directly to the Head of Product Centre, you will work with them to further shape and grow the capabilities of the Product Centre, manage suppliers and deputise when required.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for the effective technical and technology decisions of complex, high-risk and high-profile digital products and services. Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a leader for the development team leads and as the main point of escalation of any technical issues
• Structuring the Product Centre team with the appropriate levels of expertise, managing internal recruitment processes and use of external consultancies
• Ensuring the effective development, co-ordination and motivation of a team of highly skilled and technical Developers, setting the framework to encourage world-class digital services
• Working closely with Delivery Managers, Product Managers and Service Managers to help accurately estimate and plan development sprints and projects
• Continually driving the technical product strategy and execution across the organisation – this will involve formulating long-term plans and strategy for testing across systems and products
• Designing, developing, testing, deploying, managing, maintaining and supporting Digital services, application software and database services across NHSBT
• Initiating and developing a programme of research and development to ensure NHSBT is able to take advantage of the latest technology and best practice available in the Digital industry

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

You will be required to participate in the on-call rotas and to provide cover during operational emergencies

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge and experience of the design, development, management and maintenance of information systems across an organisation.
• Advanced knowledge and substantial proven experience in software development, with experience in the majority of :
• C#, .NET Framework 6.0+ inc. ASP.NET/ MVC, .NET Core
• Visual Studio +
• OOAD and UML techniques
• HTML, JavaScript, JQuery
• XML, XSD, JSON
• Oracle or SQL Server
• Network architecture and protocols such as SNMP, HTTP, SOAP, SOA-Web Services
• Agile / Lean and Traditional methodologies
• SOLID Design Principles
• Progressive web app development
• MS Azure & Cloud Technology
• Other Cloud Services and Providers, ie OCI
• Testing Strategies
• Testing Tools – MS Test, NUnit, TestRail
• Automated Testing Tools - Selenium
• Knowledge of IT best practice as stipulated by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
• Knowledge and experience of Change Management.
• Proven resource management experience.

Qualifications and Training

• MSc in Computer Science (or related discipline) or significant industrial experience equivalent to Master’s level.
• Extensive training in software development tools and methodologies and in database technologies, either Oracle or SQL Server.