Technical Lead - OTDT Product Centre

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team who are transforming the digital and technology services that support OTDT. As the Technical Lead for the Product Centre you will be part of the senior leadership team responsible for designing, developing and delivering innovative solutions that will support the OTDT Directorate in saving and improving peoples lives. You will be responsible for leading the definition and implementation of Digital development standards, policies and strategies and drive continuous improvement of our products and ways of working. You will be leading and mentoring a team of skilled developers and testers working on a variety of technologies including: Oracle, APEX, .NET, Java, Python, Selenium, Azure, DevOps, and OCI. You will work with the Solutions Architect to lead on research and development to ensure NHSBT is able to take advantage of the latest technology and best practice available in the Digital industry. This varied hybrid role will be a mixture of home working and NHSBT centre base working, giving you the opportunity to engage directly with the highly skilled and passionate team, and support the Product Team in defining and delivering the Product Roadmap. Reporting directly to the Head of Product Centre, you will work with them to further shape and grow the capabilities of the Product Centre, manage suppliers and deputise for the Head of Product Centre assuming full delegated powers of authority when required.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for the effective technical and technology decisions of complex, high-risk and high-profile digital products and services. Your responsibilities will include: Acting as a leader for the development team leads and as the main point of escalation of any technical issues Structuring the Product Centre team with the appropriate levels of expertise, managing the recruitment process of internal recruitment and use of external consultancies Ensuring the effective development, co-ordination and motivation of a team of highly skilled and technical Developers, setting the framework to encourage world-class digital services Working closely with Delivery Managers, Product Managers and Service Managers to help accurately estimate and plan development sprints and projects Continually driving the technical product strategy and execution across the organisation this will involve formulating long-term plans and strategy for testing across systems and products Designing, developing, testing, deploying, managing, maintaining and supporting Digital services, application software and database services across NHSBT Initiating and developing a programme of research and development to ensure NHSBT is able to take advantage of latest technology and best practice available in the Digital industry.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.