On behalf of Digital Health and Care Wales, we are looking for a Lead Software Developer (Inside IR35) for a 6-month contract. Hybrid working with 2-3 days per week required in Cardiff.
The post holder is expected to have the skill to routinely analyse and solve highly complex technical problems without the need to call upon others for advice, whilst providing technical guidance to a team of software developers. The post holder must also be capable of taking the lead in developing software components for National applications and ensuring they are rigorously built and tested in accordance with software industry best practice.
Main Responsibilities:
* Identify and assist the Software Development Manager with the introduction of continual improvements and refinements to the practices used to develop software within the organisation.
* Work with other staff across development teams, identify and implement continual improvements to development practice (for example, continuous integration, automated unit testing, code reviews, gated check-ins of code, and estimating techniques).
* Work with other staff across development teams, identify opportunities for code sharing and implement common by-design software components (such as authentication and authorisation and messaging handling libraries).
* Contribute to the production of suitable quality control records (such as problem or change records) for application and system software changes.
* Assist team members in ensuring that software applications have full patch and version control in place and that the organisation has a comprehensive record of all these amendments.
Essential:
* Proven experience of software development in a formal development environment.
* Knowledge in advanced principles of object-oriented design.
* Knowledge in API and RPC development.
* An understanding of CI/CD and Automated Unit Testing development practices.
* Evidence of experience with Windows PC, server operating systems, cloud hosting.
* Knowledge in the development of relational database systems and associated database administration activities.
* Experience in application or web development using a suitable IDE and programming language.
* Experience with .Net and FHIR standards.
* Ability and confidence to speak publicly to groups of people, demonstrating ideas, concepts, and working software and answering related questions.
* Experience developing software for Clinical Information or Healthcare systems.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Digital Health and Care Wales guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such, the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."
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