Developer: Sponsorship Available

NHS Business Services Authority

Job Summary

NHSBSA Digital directive has a number of IT services that it develops and supports, both digital and classic in nature.

As a Developer your role is to provide a specialist development experience and knowledge across a range of IT skills underpinned by theory to actively develop new services and will include some or all of the following activities:

  • Software Design and Development,
  • 2nd/3rd Line support
  • Manual and automated Testing,
  • Cloud deployment platforms and techniques,
  • Database design,
  • Implementation and support
  • Continuous improvement and lifecycle management

What do we offer?

  • 27 days leave (increasing with length of service) plus 8 bank holidays
  • Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
  • Flexi time
  • Hybrid working model (we are currently working largely remotely)
  • Career development
  • Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
  • Excellent pension
  • NHS Car lease scheme
  • Access to a wide range of benefits and high street discounts!

Main duties of the job

Specialist skills

  • Evaluating, analysing, and interpreting complex information and requirements to inform development of applications and services.
  • Applying appropriate methods and procedures for the full development lifecycle in accordance with standards and customer needs.
  • Designing, developing and delivering features and benefits for new and existing services.
  • Oversees effective running of bespoke services, 3rd party applications and configurable of the shelf products (CoTS) and services,providing advice and guidance to support resolution of problems and major incidents.
  • Using incident, problem, request and change management processes and systems to support the successful implementation of system enhancements and fault resolutions.
  • Implementing standards and policies, pro-actively identifying and proposing improvements or enhancement.
  • Proactively engaging to support the on-going development of your own skills and knowledge.
  • Communicating complex information effectively across a variety of people and levels of understanding, to influence, negotiate and secure value based outcomes.
  • Planning your own work to achieve agreed objectives, prioritising multiple and conflicting deliverables, escalating as appropriate.
  • Leading, participating and contributing to quality assurance reviews of work through a variety of approaches.
  • Regularly horizon scans to keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and standards to support innovative and creative delivery of business objectives.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team setting, both internal and externally.
  • Management of own work including individual tasks, whilst maintaining team deliverables
  • Pro-active approach to self-learning and continuous professional development
  • Specialist knowledge consistent with attainment of degree level IT qualification
  • Business change and rationalisation of systems processes and services
  • Analysis of requirements, design and development of applications to meet business needs.
  • Analysis and investigation of ICT issues, within new and existing services to enable business continuity and resolve major incidents
  • Use of version control systems such as Github/Gitlab, SVN

Desirable

  • Awareness of digital channel shift and approaches
  • Knowledge of design principles (Object oriented design; common design patterns; responsive web design; security by design; government service design)

Experience

Essential

  • Performing a range of varied work activities in a range of structured and unstructured environments.
  • Software development lifecycle, including but not limited to developing code based applications, quality assurance and test processes, and supporting in a 2nd/3rd line environment
  • One or more of the following frameworks: Waterfall, Agile, Java/Spring, Node.js/Express, AWS Lambda, HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript and SQL
  • Communicating complex technical information easily to both technical and non-technical people
  • Mentoring, coaching and sharing best practice with a range of staff.
  • Rapidly absorbing complex technical and business information to learn new technologies keep skills up to date and adapt to change.
  • Identifying risks and escalating them as appropriate.
  • Writing and maintaining system documentation.
  • Developing and maintaining clean, production ready code across a variety of programming languages and frameworks.
  • Presenting work at user groups and conferences
  • Meeting strict service requirements (KPIs, SLAs, OLAs)

Desirable

  • Developing or supporting large scale or highly critical services
  • Upgrading, converting, modernising or digitising applications/services.
  • Identifying, assessing and managing risk.
  • Knowledge of SQL and its use in one or more DBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DB2).
  • Front-end web development skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree calibre with relevant in-depth knowledge of the subject matter or relevant experience of the subject matter

Desirable

  • Qualifications in appropriate IT certification (eg ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, ISTQB etc)

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 23 February 2025

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