Job summary
- Main area
- IT
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC166-0725
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
GDAD Senior Software Developer (With Management)
Band 7
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
DHCW supports interoperability between the various components of the NHS Wales national architecture, managed by Integration services through a combination of technologies to support interoperability.
The Integration team transforms and standardises messages containing patient information for sharing across the NHS Wales’ Messaging Fabric, a key part of the national infrastructure. DHCW is beginning an extensive program of migration, modernisation and expansion, with a view of replacing Fiorano with a custom-built messaging solution and we wish to recruit a Lead Developer to join the Integration Platform Team.
In line with the National Data Strategy, a non-proprietary cloud hosted solution is needed, that is vendor neutral and agnostic to market influence to avoid supplier lock in and rising support and maintenance costs, an in-house developed solution will allow DHCW and NHS Wales the capability to deliver integration services that support national strategies in an efficient, cost-effective manner reducing the dependency on 3rd party proprietary solutions.
You will be expected to work with staff at all levels in helping us deliver our strategic plan by placing quality, safety and innovation at the centre of what you do. You will play a key role in working alongside a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of new products and enhancements to existing systems.
Main duties of the job
Proven experience using Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to write software code and produce elegant, robust and maintainable software applications.
Working toward a previously built design solution, you are expected to take the lead in the development and ensure it is rigorously tested and documented in accordance with DHCW and industry best practices.
Working largely independently, under the guidance of a solutions architect, there will be opportunities to work with a range of system and user interface technologies. In addition to new developments, you will be involved in developing solutions to integrate legacy systems.
Skills key for this role:
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Phyton, Rust, Java
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System architecture design for high-performance, scalable integration (microservices)
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Multithreading & performance, Observability & Monitoring tools
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Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2, JCAPs, Fiorano, Biztalk, IBM Websphere)
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messaging Queues (Rabbit MQ, Active MQ, etc)
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Web Services, API, XML, XSLT, .Net, SQL, SOAP, REST
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Networking connectivity, TCP/UDP/sockets
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Containerised applications, Docker, Kubernetes
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CI/CD and DevOps tools, Agile, SDLC
Experience in the following
Apache Camel
HL7 v 2.x and FHIR
High Availability solutions, Mirroring, Replication, Clustering, AOG
Modelling tools and languages, Enterprise Architect/UML
Expert in OOP, unit testing, software design patterns, SOLID principles, TDD
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is an expert national body and part of NHS Wales. We work in partnership with NHS Wales colleagues and other key stakeholders to provide national digital and data services which support the delivery of health and social care in Wales. Modern health and care services depend on good digital tools, data and information. DHCW runs or works with more than 100 services and delivers major national digital transformation programmes to support this. In addition, DHCW provides expert advice in relation to cyber security and information governance. We give frontline staff the digital tools which help them provide safer and more efficient care. We are also giving patients and the public digital tools to better manage their own health and wellbeing, empowering people to live healthier lives. We put people at the heart of what we do, working to the highest standards to deliver quality and make digital a force for good in health and care.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
In the role you will:
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Work with stakeholders and get involved in the entire project lifecycle
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Using technical expertise and experience, guide users and other stakeholders on the most effective way to solve business problems
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Use version control software such as GIT or SVN to manage development work properly
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Work as part of an agile development team to design and write high-quality software.
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Play a key role working alongside experienced software professionals in a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of new products and enhancements to existing systems which include Web, Windows and Cloud based applications.
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Research relevant new technology, assessing its potential for enhancement of existing services.
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Leverage Agile principles to understand and suggest improvements to the development process to empower the team with better collaboration and communication.
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Guide development and influence the future of the platform and its technology.
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Design, develop and implement scalable applications, microservices and APIs based on defined architecture frameworks and guidelines
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Work with team members to integrate new code into existing continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) pipelines.
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Leverage Agile principles to understand and suggest improvements to the development process to empower the team with better collaboration and communication.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience).
- Further evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training e.g. Knowledge gained through practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Professional Registration: Registered IT Technician (RITTech)
- FEDIP Senior Practitioner, or equivalent recognised advanced professional qualification.
- Knowledge of the NHS, other healthcare systems, or the health sector, including regional or national variations
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working on digital products and services, in a similar role, with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proficient in software tools which automate or assist part of the development process.
- Proficient in a set of codes and syntax (supported by software tools) that enables the unambiguous translation of specified functionality into source code for the creation of computer programs.
- Proficient in methods and techniques for structured reviews, including reviews of technical work products, test plans, business cases, architectures and any other key deliverables.
- Familiar with software tools which automate or assist any part of the testing process across all or part of the testing lifecycle.
- Familiar with the collaborative DevOps approach consisting of agile practices, processes, and procedures designed to facilitate rapid IT service and product delivery.
Desirable criteria
- Aware of methods and techniques for running effective meetings and for understanding and influencing the roles played by participants.
- Aware of principles, methods and techniques for establishing, documenting, and maintaining standards.
- Aware of Methods and techniques associated with planning and monitoring progress of projects
- Familiar with methods and techniques for coaching individuals or groups by a balanced combination of support and direction.
- Familiar with methods and techniques for appraising an individual’s performance and potential.
- Familiar with identifying, agreeing and monitoring objectives and deliverables with individuals, identifying under-performance issues against agreed quality standards and performance criteria and identifying gaps in capability and causes.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Conceptual thinking skills to acquire understanding and insights regarding the underlying issues in complex problems or situations through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.
- Creativity skills to take innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions.
- Attention to detail skills to apply specific quality standards to all tasks undertaken to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete.
- Cross-functional and inter-disciplinary awareness to understand the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions.
- Interacting with people skills to establish relationships, contribute to an open culture and maintain contacts with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. To be an effective, approachable and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures with the ability to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences.
Desirable criteria
- Commitment to supporting the organisation’s mission to encourage and embrace diversity and inclusion across the NHS.
- Requirement to demonstrate and embed the Values and Behaviours of the organisation, including the Compassionate Leadership Principles for Health and Social Care in Wales.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Turner
- Job title
- Senior Product Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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