Lead Application and Web Developer (NPIC) (XN06)

Lead Application and Web Developer (NPIC) (XN06)

Would you like to support world leading digital pathology research, developing innovative solutions for web-based systems and applications to improve cutting edge research in healthcare?

The National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC) is working to digitise pathology services across the country, whilst harnessing the associated data for research into improving patient care. NPIC's research activity relies on the agile development of applications and web-based systems to facilitate various exciting projects throughout the programme.

The Lead Application and Web Developer will play a key role in creating and maintaining websites, systems and software tools that underpin NPIC research activity, including:

• Content Management Systems
• Software DevOps platforms
• APIs for task automation
• Bespoke web and desktop applications
• Analytics and monitoring systems to track and predict demand on services
• Public facing websites and comms platforms

Main duties of the job

As Lead Application and Web Developer, you will be expected to:

• Manage and maintain the NPIC shared codebase
• Develop bespoke software solutions for a diverse range of digital pathology tasks
• Work on projects that require developing exploratory proof of concepts
• Utilise various APIs to communicate with and extract data from existing systems
• Report on technical activities, and generate comprehensive analytics data for strategic decision making
• Integrate developed tools and services into end user applications
• Write scripts for the automation of routine tasks
• Identify and resolve performance issues with deployed solutions
• Provide technical support to researchers and end users
• Horizon-scan the latest developments in software and development tools

The NPIC Lead Application and Web Developer role will be based at the St James's site of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust with the opportunity of hybrid working.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been at the forefront of Digital Pathology research and innovation for over 20 years. NPIC builds on that advanced starting position, uniting a consortium of academic, clinical and industry partners with a common vision - to create a world-leading centre for digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) on which a UK industrial sector can grow and thrive. NPIC is a multidisciplinary and highly motivated team that is working to deliver these challenging ambitions. As a part of this team, you can expect a supportive environment and management that is receptive to the needs of individuals, continued development through training, and opportunities to be involved in diverse aspects of a multimillion-pound program.

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Job responsibilities

Job Title: Lead Application and Web Developer (NPIC)

Band: 6

Unit/Department: Research and Innovation

Location: SJUH

AfC Job No: 3165a

The National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC) programme, a £100m+ initiative supported by central funding from NHS England, Innovate UK and the Office for Life Sciences. NPIC has the ambition to provide a national platform to support pathology services. The postholder will develop and support key elements of this platform and participate in the solution architecture work/simple interoperability activities within the IT strategy and Trust standards.

The post holder should have an excellent understanding and experience of web technologies, including Web Servers, client server protocols, experience with Linux and Windows operating systems and prior experience of web scripting and relational databases.

This is an experienced and key position that expects the developer to display advanced skills and experience in the field of integration and application development. The position will require liaison with internal customers for the resolution of support issues and fulfilment of requests. This requires customer-facing skills and a strong understanding of business requirements.

The post holder will work within broad professional policies to achieve agreed objectives, exercising initiative and judgement in order to effectively provide support to both internal customers and the web developer. He/ she will provide advice without reference to the manager and act as a lead specialist in own area.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Educated to degree level or equivalent in an IT related area, or equivalent experience.

Specialist knowledge gained through more than 2 years experience of the following:

• C#
• ASP.Net MVC
• .Net Frameworks 4+
• Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Test Driven Design (TDD)
• (RDBMS) relational database management systems such as MS SQL Server
• Web APIs
• Unit and Integration testing
• IOC
• Version Control

Formal training and/or commercial experience for a minimum of 2 years in the following areas:

• PHP Programming
• UNIX and Microsoft Windows administration
• MySQL
• HTML and CSS

Able to work with staff of varying levels of authority as well as external contacts. Sound relevant knowledge of the software markets including open-source applications.

Ability to use either graphical WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver or hand-coding skills using notepad or Vi.

Up to date knowledge of current practice and tools/processes used in information management.

Good working knowledge of XML and XLST forms.

Experience of dealing with all levels of hospital staff and external contacts.

Graphical design skills.

Experience of change management processes and adhering to the set policies and procedures.

Experience of working in a busy web development/support role in a medium to large organisation.

Working knowledge of Solaris, RedHat, SuSe or equivalent flavours of UNIX.

Automated Deployment.

CQRS.

Automated GUI testing.

CSS Precompilers.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience developing web sites and applications
• Experience of using and managing databases
• Up to date knowledge of current practice and tools/processes used in information management
• Experience of working with APIs and integration tools
• Working knowledge of python for application development
• Familiar with digital image management

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree or equivalent
• Any courses relevant to essential specialist knowledge skills.

Skills & behaviours

• Enthusiastic and committed with good attention to detail
• Ability to work on own initiative and in teams
• Team management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.