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Technical Lead

Bupa

Skilled Worker, A ratingRemoteFull-timePosted 5 days ago

Job Description

Job Description

Technical Lead

Permanent: up to 3 days WFH

Manchester, London or Staines

Salary from: £70k DOE and location + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

We make health happen

At Bupa, we're passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you'll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As a Technical Lead in Bupa's Health Services Technology team, you'll provide technical leadership in a critical clinical and operational product, translating customer healthcare needs into safe, reliable and supportable solutions. Working within a product team, you'll partner closely with the Product Manager, clinicians, operational leaders and technology colleagues to ensure what we deliver improves outcomes, protects continuity of care and aligns to our strategic and architectural direction.

How you'll help us make health happen

Provide clear technical leadership across clinical and operational systems

Build and lead a team of engineers and technical specialists

Translate clinical and operational needs into actionable delivery plans

Enable evidence-based decisions by articulating patient safety, clinical risk, information governance, security and operational impacts

Build strong relationships with clinicians, practice managers, operational service owners and technology teams, influencing decisions to protect continuity of care

Coach and develop your team to improve clinical systems capability raising quality and reducing operational risk

Work in close partnership with Product Owners, constructively challenging intent and prioritisation to ensure solutions are technically sound, safe, and aligned to long term outcomes

Lead delivery and ongoing optimisation of clinically critical platforms and workflows (e.g., PAS, EMR, PACS and specialist systems), ensuring safe, reliable operation

Provide hands-on technical leadership for clinical and operational delivery, coordinating technical SMEs, suppliers and service teams across projects of varying scope and complexity.

Own end-to-end interoperability and integration delivery (design, mapping, testing, deployment and monitoring), including standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD-9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable

What you'll bring:

Comfortable working with clinical stakeholders and governance

Healthcare interoperability and integration engineering, including interface specifications, mapping, test evidence and monitoring for standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, ICD9/10 and SNOMED CT where applicable

Product and Agile operating methods; experience leading delivery in healthcare/product environments where service continuity and governance are essential.

Communicates clearly and pragmatically, tailoring messages to audience and context (delivery decisions, governance, operational impact) across technical and non-technical stakeholders

People leadership experience: building capability, setting standards, and leading mixed teams in regulated/operationally sensitive environments

Experience leading within matrix environments with blended teams.

Provides clear technical direction within the product team, making and owning architectural and design decisions aligned to organisational standards

Structured approach to problem solving and designing software solutions, backed by extensive experience delivering performant, scalable services end-to-end

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

* Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We're committed to ensuring you're treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]

Time Type

Full time

Job Area

IT

Locations

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House

Gym membership, Health & wellbeing programme, Canteen, Paid volunteer time, Financial planning services, Private medical insurance, Referral programme, Additional leave, Company pension, Private dental insurance, Employee mentoring programme, Free flu jabs, Cycle to work scheme

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