Development Team Leader

You will be responsible for leading the development team working on a range of clinical systems built upon modern technology stacks. You will have a strong background leading development teams within an agile setting and have the desire and enthusiasm to deliver but also innovate. The development team are responsible for providing systems to frontline staff at the point of patient care. The team and supporting teams have expanded over the last year with a plan of continued recruitment and investment in the team to be a leader within the NHS.,

• You will be responsible of defining process that our dev team follows and ensuring the development team take responsibility to implement
• Technically adept you will provide assistance/guidance to the dev team and define best practice in relation to code quality and standards
• Working closely with Project Managers/Product Owners you will provide insight towards new development work via agreed changes, estimates and also innovative changes that come from within the development team
• You will take responsiblity for resourcing the team correctly and reporting in to the Deputy Director of Development to expand and deliver on a strong Digital Vision
• You can have the capacity to be actively involved with development work but not at the detriment of an efficiently functioning delivery team as you will be core to the teams success
• You will be working on existing and green field solutions that use the latest technologies with a large variety of projects to get involved with
• You will operate in a cloud first development environment and we would look to you to introduce new tools/approaches to improve development lifecycle.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of the Change Framework, promoting awareness of and adherence to the process within the team
  
  We offer flexible working arrangments with 27 days annual leave as standard, this increase to 29 after 4 years service and 33 days after 10 years.
Staff members are able to get access to perks such as salary sacrafice cars from www.nhsfleetsolutions.co.uk, home electronis or cycle to work. We have access to the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative (ESI) that gives employees access to training courses and certifications with time committed outside of core duties each year to attend these.