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From the employer's careers site First seen 2 Nov 2026

Technical Lead

Bupa Salford Quays Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

£70k DOE and location + 10% bonus per year

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Description

As a Technical Lead in Bupa's Health Services Technology team, you'll provide technical leadership in a critical clinical and operational product, translating customer healthcare needs into safe, reliable and supportable solutions.

You will:

  • Provide clear technical leadership across clinical and operational systems
  • Build and lead a team of engineers and technical specialists
  • Translate clinical and operational needs into actionable delivery plans
  • Enable evidence-based decisions by articulating patient safety, clinical risk, information governance, security and operational impacts
  • Build strong relationships with clinicians, practice managers, operational service owners and technology teams, influencing decisions to protect continuity of care
  • Coach and develop your team to improve clinical systems capability raising quality and reducing operational risk
  • Work in close partnership with Product Owners, constructively challenging intent and prioritisation to ensure solutions are technically sound, safe, and aligned to long term outcomes
  • Lead delivery and ongoing optimisation of clinically critical platforms and workflows (e.g., PAS, EMR, PACS and specialist systems), ensuring safe, reliable operation
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for clinical and operational delivery, coordinating technical SMEs, suppliers and service teams across projects of varying scope and complexity.
  • Own end-to-end interoperability and integration delivery (design, mapping, testing, deployment and monitoring), including standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD-9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Comfortable working with clinical stakeholders and governance
  • Healthcare interoperability and integration engineering, including interface specifications, mapping, test evidence and monitoring for standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable
  • Product and Agile operating methods; experience leading delivery in healthcare/product environments where service continuity and governance are essential.
  • Communicates clearly and pragmatically, tailoring messages to audience and context (delivery decisions, governance, operational impact) across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • People leadership experience: building capability, setting standards, and leading mixed teams in regulated/operationally sensitive environments
  • Experience leading within matrix environments with blended teams.
  • Provides clear technical direction within the product team, making and owning architectural and design decisions aligned to organisational standards
  • Structured approach to problem solving and designing software solutions, backed by extensive experience delivering performant, scalable services end-to-end

Benefits include:

  • 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
  • Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
  • An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
  • Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
  • Various other benefits and online discounts

Skills

Required

  • HL7 v2
  • FHIR
  • DICOM
  • ICD-9/10
  • SNOMED CT
  • Agile
  • Healthcare interoperability and integration engineering

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://bupa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EXT_CAREER/job/Salford-Quays/Technical-Lead_R1220110-1

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