Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Technical Delivery Lead to join our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme at Humber Health Partnership. This is a senior role where you will take ownership of multiple technical workstreams, ensuring robust governance, seamless delivery, and high-quality outcomes that directly impact patient care.
As Technical Delivery Lead, you will lead a team of technical specialists in designing, building, testing, and implementing our new EPR system. You’ll work at the heart of a complex, multi-trust programme, ensuring technical integrity, resilience, and compliance while driving innovation and supporting our ambition to become a paper-free organisation.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Proven experience in technical delivery leadership within large-scale digital transformation programmes.
- Strong knowledge of software development, integration, and architecture.
- Expertise in governance, compliance, and risk management.
- Skills in Agile methodologies and experienced in leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and inspire across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare technology. You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering a system that improves patient safety, enhances clinical outcomes, and transforms how care is delivered across our organisation.
- Lead technical teams in a matrix environment, offering expert guidance and mentoring.
- Oversee architecture, design, integration, and deployment of EPR solutions with minimal disruption to services.
- Ensure all technical activities meet industry standards, NHS compliance, and programme governance requirements.
- Act as Scrum Master, embedding Agile methodologies and promoting continuous improvement.
- Safeguard system integrity, sustainability, and security across multiple environments.
- Work closely with clinical, operational, and corporate teams, as well as third-party suppliers, to deliver safe and effective solutions.
- Provide decisive leadership during technical incidents, ensuring rapid resolution and continuity of care.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience/knowledge
- Certified Scrum Professional or other Scrum alliance qualifications
- Managing Intersystems servers/Developing with Intersystems Objects and SQL
Desirable
- Education or qualifications relative to clinical or operational management within an acute healthcare environment
- Certified enhanced DevOps qualifications
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Enhanced Web development & programming
- Health Interoperability standards such as HL7/FHIR knowledge and experience
- Senior management experience within the NHS
- Experience producing long term technically resilient software plans to support digital service objectives and product lifecycle, including: planning, development, testing, integration, deployment
- Specialist knowledge and advanced understanding of a variety of development techniques and methodologies, specifically web and application development and with extensive experience in the application in a commercial or healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated at least significant experience managing a team of multi skilled developers with a strong understanding of the practical application of the Agile software development cycle and its principles
- Specialist knowledge and experience in multiple database architecture, management and handling technologies and techniques
- Experience in server and software management and maintenance required to maximise service efficiently to avoid organisational distress
- Experience with Internet security technologies and enterprise level storage systems
- Experience of Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies inside product development teams
Desirable
- In-depth understanding of NHS and clinical practice, protocols and working method
- Knowledge and experience of development using an Integration Engine
- Enterprise level storage systems, server virtualisation technologies, email security technologies, network services, Microsoft Server
- Advanced Knowledge of development and testing including system planning and risk analysis
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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: 04 January 2026
