Senior Systems Developer

Job Summary

NHS Blood and Transplant has an exciting opportunity for Senior Systems Developer to join our in-house development team working in a friendly and progressive environment based in Birmingham.

You will be responsible for the analysis, design and maintenance of multiple applications critical to our blood supply chain, used by hospitals across the country, as well as helping to replace some legacy components with up to date solutions. You will also be working on server management both on-premise and Azure cloud and DevOps. You’ll have good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently and creatively when resolving problems. You must have a passion for innovation and a can-do attitude to creating new software systems.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include:

• Understanding the architecture of existing CRM systems.
• Analysis, estimation, design and build on CRM systems.
• Impact analysis & design for timely Microsoft upgrades on CRM systems.
• Propose & mentor team for best practises.
• Onboard self and abide with NHSBT Quality assurance processes.
• Engagement to efficiently transition new CRM systems to Systems Development – EAST.
• Liaison with Product Owner, Business and varied stakeholders on the project.
• Supporting DevOps team during Releases.

Key technical skills for the role:

• Dynamics 365 – Customization & Maintenance
• PowerApps
• XRMToolBox
• Power Platform admin center (PPAC)
• C#
• JavaScript, TypeScript
• Debugging – Visual Studio, Browser DevTools
• XML
• JSON
• HTML
• CSS
• RDBMS
• SDLC
• Agile methodology
• JIRA, Confluence, VSTS, GIT, SharePoint
• Environment strategy – GIT Flow

About You

Qualifications and Training

• Relevant degree level plus practical experience or Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science.
• Extensive training in software development tools and methodologies and in database technologies, including .Net technologies and SQL Databases.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).

Experience and Knowledge

• Knowledge and substantial proven experience in software development, with experience in the majority of:

• C#, .NET Framework 3.5+ inc. ASP.NET/ MVC
• Dynamics 365
• Dynamics Operations
• MuleSoft AnyPoint
• Microsoft Azure
• Oracle 9+, SQL Server 2005+, T-SQL, SSIS
• Visual Studio 2010+
• OOAD and UML techniques
• HTML, JavaScript, JQuery
• XML, XSD, JSON
• Network architecture and protocols such as SNMP, HTTP, SOAP, SOA-Web Services
• Agile / Lean and Traditional methodologies

• Extensive experience of the design, development, management and maintenance of information systems across a large organisation, including database modelling theory
• Specialist knowledge of software architectures across a wide range of industry standard platforms
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office products, particularly Microsoft Visio and Excel
• Experience of the entire software development life-cycle and managing workload to deliver software solutions to agreed timescales

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 19th February 2023.

Interviews due to be held week commencing 27th February 2023 – subject to confirmation.

For informal enquiries please contact Gauravendra Bagga – Head of Systems Development and Integration via email at: gauravendra.bagga@nhsbt.nhs.uk