Company: National Health Service
Location: Somerset
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you lead a team of Application Developers across the full development lifecycle and live services support. You collaborate with project managers and operations to optimize resource use for sprint and release work, while aligning with design, quality, and governance standards. You drive development lifecycle improvements and oversee security certification efforts for cloud services, shaping the technology strategy. This is a hands-on leadership role in a modernising NHS software environment, focused on delivering reliable, high-quality software.
Pay / Benefits
- flexible working
- NHS pension scheme
- generous annual leave
- Blue Light Card benefits
- NHS discounts
- career development commitment
Responsibilities
- Manage Application Development team members (recruitment, leave, performance, sickness, appraisals)
- Oversee sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand-ups with Service Delivery Manager to allocate resources
- Develop and enforce development standards, pipelines, releases, repository management, and code reviews
- Coordinate liaison between support and development to balance resource allocation
- Review and improve development lifecycle processes with SCR teams
- Monitor time/resource usage and report analytics to optimize resource utilization
- Define technical plans and strategies with head of development and cloud services
- Ensure services meet SLAs and prioritise workload
- Lead security certification efforts and service improvement metrics
Key requirements
- Degree level or significant experience in a computer-related discipline or higher-level management qualification
- Evidence of professional development
- 2+ years experience implementing information systems
- Experience with Agile software development
- Experience delivering medium to large-scale web-based applications driven by relational databases
- Proven customer service experience
- leadership
- stakeholder management
- communication
- Agile project management (Prince II or similar)
- ITIL Foundation
- .NET
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Posted: October 17th, 2026