Our teams at NHS Digital build and operate world leading healthcare technology services to support the NHS and are looking for System Engineers who love solving complex problems to join the team.
As part of an agile, delivery-focused team you’ll have an opportunity to work on a broad range of systems that are typically large-scale, critical services for the NHS, such as APIs to support integrated systems within the NHS, direct public facing services or large-scale data analytics and processing.
There are a broad range of engineering teams within NHS Digital, please read our NHS Digital blogs to understand some of the ways in which we are using technology and data to improve health and care. NHS Digital has developed an engineering quality framework which is being iterated on over time. The framework may also help to give more context as to the work that we do.
Our engineers aim to increase the performance of connected systems, deliver new services, or improvements to existing services, while ensuring value for money. We predominantly use open standards, using AWS or Azure Cloud and commodity hardware-based infrastructure.
As a Lead Systems Engineer you would typically be responsible for a small programme with one or more delivery squads.
We have vacancies in the following Directorates:
Product Development designs and delivers new applications to help citizens, patients and clinicians including the NHS website, NHS App, NHS login and Digital Urgent and Emergency Care.
Platforms provides the core platforms that underpin the products and data services which we deliver within NHSD and are also made accessible to regional and local service developers including demographic registers, identity services (citizen identity and NHS workforce identity) and messaging platforms for prescriptions and referrals.
Data Services maintains and delivers the data collection, processing, curation and analytical platforms used by clinical, research and planning teams across the NHS in England.