Purpose of the post

HDR UK requires the services of an experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer & Digital Architect to develop the next phase of our technical solutions including the Health Data Research Gateway (www.healthdatagateway.org), Safe People Registry (https://safepeopleregistry.org/), Cohort Discovery Service (https://healthdatagateway.org/en/about/cohort-discovery) and future technology services. This includes how our services, standards and associated open APIs work with the wider Technology Ecosystem across a range of academic, clinical, and industry groups.

The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team that develops an over-arching interoperable infrastructure to ensure that UK health data assets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) and accessible for research, innovation and clinical trials. The chosen applicant will be expected to work within an Agile software development team, providing development of infrastructure and services to deliver scientific insights, that improve health and healthcare of the UK and worldwide populations. The successful candidate will be expected to provide individual contribution as a full stack hands-on engineer, work across the team's technical products and with wider Technology Ecosystem development teams, carry out code review & quality checks and document as required, as well as document product designs and logical flows. The chosen applicant will play a key role in providing technical input to internal and external meetings and workshops. They will utilise their technical knowledge to translate technical requirements from Product Owners and key external groups to develop high level digital architecture designs.

Main Responsibilities:

Software Development:

• Hands-on Full Stack software development

• Developing all different aspects of the Technology Teams Products including Search, Content Management, APIs, Visualisations and Integrations

• Working to an agile methodology

• Documenting code, conducting code reviews with the team and maintaining high quality, performant and testable code

Technical architecture and design, including:

• Meeting with a range of stakeholder groups, collecting and translating requirements into high level architecture designs, including but not limited to:

o  Application modelling and logical flows

o  Database Schema design, with best practice and optimisation in mind

o  Mapping information flow between interoperable systems

• Documentation of architectures and designs as well as on-going ownership of documentation

• PSR standards and optimisations surrounding code

• Continually monitor and expose candidates for refactoring within our local and wider code projects

• Monitor and administer application updates as and when release candidates are prepared

Technical Leadership:

• Troubleshooting and supporting development issues as they arise working with the team and escalating to Technical Programme Director as necessary

• Demonstrable ability to collaborate and guide external partners on how to utilise, and integrate with, our new developments.

• Maintain and share awareness of current best practices in software development, open science, reproducibility and agile methodology

• Demonstrate technical leadership by voicing concerns about proposed solutions and offer alternatives where appropriate

• Lead technically on developments of proofs of concept to completion, including design and documentation of new systems

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