# Technical Lead

**Company**: NHS Blood and Transplant
**Location**: Barnsley
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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**

- 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

**What we offer:**

- Hybrid working arrangements

- Flexible working options

- Generous annual leave - 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years service and to 33 days after 10 years

- Inclusive pension scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme

- Supportive learning culture - we've fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow

- Health and wellbeing support - we offer confidential services including occupational health, employee assistance programme, and wellbeing resources

## Skills

### Required
- C#
- .NET Framework 6.0+
- ASP.NET/MVC
- .NET Core
- Visual Studio 2019+
- OOAD
- UML
- HTML
- JavaScript
- JQuery
- XML
- XSD
- JSON
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- SNMP
- HTTP
- SOAP
- SOA-Web Services
- Agile/Lean
- Traditional methodologies
- SOLID Design Principles
- Progressive web app development
- MS Azure & Cloud Technology
- OCI
- Testing Strategies
- MS Test
- NUnit
- TestRail
- Selenium
- ITIL
- Change Management

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