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Full Time; 37.5 hours per week
1 x Permanent opportunity
1 x Fixed term opportunity to 31st January 2023 *Please specify which role you wish to apply for at application
Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.
The functions of the NES Digital Group are to develop and lead a programme of work and services that support the corporate functions that allow NES to work and deliver its strategic objectives. Digital has been formed with the specific objective of consolidating NES’ information based expertise into a professional, focused center for information and technical excellence. Its aim is to create a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, Digital by Default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government’s Health & Care strategy.
What you'll do
The postholder(s) will play a senior role in delivering valuable solutions to help support the work of NES. They will ensure the highest standards of security, reliability, scalability and cost efficiency across their team. This senior role will also mentor, support and develop more junior members of the team.
Key tasks will include but are not restricted to;
- Development of a suite of web applications on NES’s Turas Digital Platform using the .Net stack or other appropriate technologies
- Lead an agile software delivery team in delivering against its objectives
- Discover, evaluate and implement suitable established and emerging technologies that support and enhance NES Digital’s products
- Develop, maintain and improve NES Digital’s continuous integration and delivery systems to ensure we are constantly delivery value to our user communities
- Provide technical expertise on migrating NES Digital’s relevant continuity systems onto the Turas Digital Platform
- Mentoring and line management of junior members of the team
We seek to appoint one permanent and one fixed term postholder at this time. Please specify on your application which post you wish to considered for.
What you'll bring
These will include but are not restricted to;
- Direct experience and ability to guide others in the delivery and operation of software solutions in a complex environment.
- Ability to mentor and develop more junior team members.
- Experience in providing advice and consultancy to other engineers in areas of specific technical expertise (e.g. security, client side development, deployment etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud technologies e.g. Azure, AWS; and designing, building, deploying and operating systems in the cloud.
- Expertise in fundamentals of software development including: version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, unit testing, and test driven development.
- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders outside the immediate team, such as clinicians and other NES staff. Understanding their problems and managing feedback on solutions you have provided.
If you are interested in this vacancy and would like further information, please refer to the job information below which includes a copy of the Job Summary, Job Description, Person Specification and Conditions of Service.
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date.
Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
Closing Date: 22nd September 2021
Interview Date: 11th October 2021
We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
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If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: recruitment.hr@nes.scot.nhs.uk