Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Seaton Delaval
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly experienced and forward‑thinking Principal/Lead Developer to drive the design, development and delivery of secure, modern software solutions that underpin the Trust’s Digital Clinical Strategy. Working in an agile, cross‑functional development environment, you will take technical ownership of complex and innovative projects, ensuring high standards of engineering, architecture and operational quality.
This role is part of a brand new development squad, that will be driving forward a greenfield product, initially in the outpatient prescriptions space.
- Lead the design, development and delivery of secure, high‑quality software solutions using modern frameworks, cloud services and engineering best practices.
- Act as a senior technical authority, providing expert guidance across architecture, development standards, DevOps, testing, and continuous delivery.
- Oversee highly complex and strategic technical initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Trust’s Digital Clinical Strategy and long‑term technology roadmap.
- Provide leadership, mentorship and professional support to development teams, promoting high performance, knowledge sharing and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, clinical colleagues and external partners.
- Contribute to planning and organisational activities, including estimating workload, defining roadmaps, supporting business cases and advising on resource planning.
- Ensure compliance with relevant IT policies, standards and governance requirements, including quality, security, legislative and change‑management frameworks.
- Conduct research and evaluation of emerging tools, technologies and approaches, recommending improvements and driving innovation across the digital function.
- Coordinate day‑to‑day workload allocation and ensure the delivery of safe, reliable and scalable systems.
- Produce and maintain high‑quality technical documentation, including specifications, user guides, test plans and architectural artefacts.
- Expert knowledge of .Net, C#, WebAPI, Rest
- Expert knowledge developing separated services using Modern design patterns and techniques
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server
- Expert knowledge writing comprehensive unit tests
- Knowledge of consuming and modifying CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with APIs of varying types and integrating with 3rd parties
- Capable of teaching/mentoring/pair-programming with other members of the team
- Microsoft Azure – Experience of Azure Serverless technologies/Docker
- Experience of working in a Continuous Delivery or Deployment environment
- Experience of developing any backend API frameworks
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Posted: April 23rd, 2026