Systems Architect

Key Tasks

1. Develop a detailed knowledge of all company projects contributing to the strategic direction of the Company
2. Work closely with senior management to understand the business requirements, developing effective working relationships and ongoing management processes
3. Using your knowledge of software engineering help to create new and innovative products and services that are achievable within the timeframe required
4. Utilise your in-depth expertise of agile software engineering principles and practices such as unit testing, TDD, BDD, refactoring techniques, continuous integration and test automation
5. Define resource requirements
6. Maintain and enhance our existing healthcare products
7. Provide leadership, facilitation and techniques to ensure quality throughout the development teams
8. Improve the way the teams work in equal measure to actually doing the work
9. To adapt and work outside rigid project frameworks and processes, ideally Kanban
10. Construct software within a lean and agile framework
11. Lead from the front as the team’s Scrum master

Knowledge and Skills

1. Commercial development experience in C++
2. A proven track record of having responsibility for the development of quality software products including requirements capture, analysis, design, build and deployment
3. Expert knowledge of C++, OOP and SQL
4. Enthusiastic, highly motivated with the ability to take responsibility and demonstrate good interpersonal skills
5. NHS experience
6. Thorough knowledge of Agile working and development
7. A team player, analytical and flexible
8. Excel at taking ownership of and solving problems
9. The ability to foster motivation within the teams to meet tight deadlines
10. A real curiosity for new technologies and techniques
11. Having previous experience of dealing with clinical safety would be highly advantageous