Technical Lead

Posted 1 hour 55 minutes ago by Jobtailor

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Manchester, Salford, United Kingdom, M3 5
Job Description
Responsibilities
  • 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
Requirements
  • 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