Lead Systems Engineer | NHS England
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £77,346 - £89,875 pa includes a RRP payment of 20% (excluding London weighting) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 06 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Nationally, LS1 4PL |
| Cwmni: | NHS England |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7529832/990-TD-PP-18110-E |
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A LeadSystemsEngineeristypically thetechnicallead formultidisciplinaryteamsdelivering andoperatingmultiple components forasystem.
There are many opportunities to work on national,highly availabledistributed systems being built and run by in house teams. The systems can differ in size, scale and purpose, but an example system would:
• Have a round-the-clock requirement to be available to a level of 99.9% or higher.
• Have a national-scale impact on unavailability, and cope with the load associated with a daily transactional user-base of more than one hundred thousand people.
• Adopt modern Cloud best-practices and open standards to support interoperability and re-usability.
• Achieve high availability through operational simplicity.
• Provide flexible low-cost horizontal scale out to handle expected and unexpected variations in load.
• Handle the architectural trade-offs necessary to avoid logical bottlenecks.
• Provide security controlsappropriate forthe storage of large volumes of sensitive data - hundreds of millions of records and documents.
• Have a direct clinical impact on patient care.
We now haveanexciting opportunityto join ourDemographics team inProductsand Platforms,which builds andoperatesa set of products including thePersonal Demographics Service(PDS)andGP Registration
• Developing,buildingandoperatingnational,highly availabledistributed systems being built and run within NHS England.
Operating within and contributing to the NHS England engineering principles.
Have technical ownership across the system space, including application, environments, infrastructure and networks,pipelinesand operational tools.
Engaged in peer-to-peer collaboration to solve engineering problems anddrive-uporganisation engineering standards. This is a significant part of the Lead Systems Engineer role,in the order of25%of time.
Responsible forEngineering maturity withinthe team.
Coaching and mentoringcolleagues to develop the team.
Candidates will need todemonstrateexperience of the following:
• Experience working on a complex application across all layers of the stack including application, infrastructure, CI/CD, testing,monitoringand alerting etc.
• Implementing quality-focussed development practices and testing techniques
• Working within a team to deliver software in a collaborative way
• Experience oftaking a lead role,for exampledriving design decisionsormanaging stakeholders effectively.
• Experience of driving and implementing improvements within a product or team.
Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.
Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.
If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.
The post of Lead Systems Engineer has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts anadditionalmonthly RRP payment equal to 20% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is - Short-term vacancy.
Earlier this year the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions,ultimately leadingto NHS England being fully integrated into the Department. The purpose of this change is to create a smaller, more strategic centre which will reduce duplication andeliminatewaste.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior tosubmittingthe application.
On-call
Participation in a shared on-call rota isrequiredto support a 24/7/365 service, this rota covers evenings, weekends, and public holidays.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Oct 2025