Senior Integration Developer
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7322893/319-7322893JN |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Senior Integration Developer at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust plays a vital role in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of secure, standards-compliant interfaces between clinical, operational and third-party systems. Primarily using the Trust’s Rhapsody Integration Engine, you’ll ensure efficient, reliable data exchange to support patient-centred care delivery.
Northumbria is highly digitally focused and committed to investing in our people. We offer generous holiday entitlement, access to additional training and a range of staff perks, including salary-sacrifice vehicle leasing and home-electronics schemes.
• Interface Development & Maintenance: Design, develop, test (unit, integration, regression), and optimise HL7, FHIR, XML and REST/SOAP/MLLP interfaces; implement performance tuning and troubleshooting of integration flows.
• Mapping & Data Standards: Create and maintain mapping tables in collaboration with the Data Platform team to ensure adherence to data standards.
• Architecture & Documentation: Define integration architecture; produce detailed technical designs, SOPs, and post-mortems for unplanned downtime; update documentation to minimise recurrence.
• Operational Support & Monitoring: Monitor day-to-day interface performance; provide on-call support and coordinate with the Digital Service Desk for planned or unplanned changes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with clinical users, suppliers, and technical teams to gather requirements, manage scope, negotiate priorities, and report on project status.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Mentor junior developers, lead integration workstreams, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaborative team-working
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.
• Technical Expertise:
• Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points).
• In-depth knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and NHS messaging frameworks; scripting with JavaScript, XPath, and transformation logic.
• Proficiency in any one of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle for data querying/auditing.
• Experience with RESTful APIs (JSON/XML) and web services integration.
• Methodologies: Experience in Agile/DevOps environments, version control, and interface lifecycle management.
• Communication & Analysis: Excellent verbal and written skills for translating complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders; ability to perform root-cause analysis and statistical/technical problem solving
• Act as the senior technical contact for integration activities, influencing long-term strategies in collaboration with the Head of Development.
• Models compassionate and inclusive leadership to engage, empower, and develop team members, driving a high-performance, continuous improvement culture.
• Represents the Integration workstream in multi-stakeholder forums and contributes to policy/service development across the Trus
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Jul 2025
The Senior Integration Developer at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust plays a vital role in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of secure, standards-compliant interfaces between clinical, operational and third-party systems. Primarily using the Trust’s Rhapsody Integration Engine, you’ll ensure efficient, reliable data exchange to support patient-centred care delivery.
Northumbria is highly digitally focused and committed to investing in our people. We offer generous holiday entitlement, access to additional training and a range of staff perks, including salary-sacrifice vehicle leasing and home-electronics schemes.
• Interface Development & Maintenance: Design, develop, test (unit, integration, regression), and optimise HL7, FHIR, XML and REST/SOAP/MLLP interfaces; implement performance tuning and troubleshooting of integration flows.
• Mapping & Data Standards: Create and maintain mapping tables in collaboration with the Data Platform team to ensure adherence to data standards.
• Architecture & Documentation: Define integration architecture; produce detailed technical designs, SOPs, and post-mortems for unplanned downtime; update documentation to minimise recurrence.
• Operational Support & Monitoring: Monitor day-to-day interface performance; provide on-call support and coordinate with the Digital Service Desk for planned or unplanned changes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with clinical users, suppliers, and technical teams to gather requirements, manage scope, negotiate priorities, and report on project status.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Mentor junior developers, lead integration workstreams, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaborative team-working
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.
• Technical Expertise:
• Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points).
• In-depth knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and NHS messaging frameworks; scripting with JavaScript, XPath, and transformation logic.
• Proficiency in any one of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle for data querying/auditing.
• Experience with RESTful APIs (JSON/XML) and web services integration.
• Methodologies: Experience in Agile/DevOps environments, version control, and interface lifecycle management.
• Communication & Analysis: Excellent verbal and written skills for translating complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders; ability to perform root-cause analysis and statistical/technical problem solving
• Act as the senior technical contact for integration activities, influencing long-term strategies in collaboration with the Head of Development.
• Models compassionate and inclusive leadership to engage, empower, and develop team members, driving a high-performance, continuous improvement culture.
• Represents the Integration workstream in multi-stakeholder forums and contributes to policy/service development across the Trus
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Jul 2025
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