Senior Integration Developer

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Integration Developer

The closing date is 01 October 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.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Technical Expertise:

Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points).

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

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualification or completed training in using Rhapsody
• NHS-specific training or IG certification (e.g., DSPT awareness)

Experience

• Previous work experience developing interfaces using Rhapsody
• Experience of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, CDA/CCD/XDS, DICOM
• Previous experience of designing integrations that are idempotent and robust.
• Experince of creating written and verbal reports and procedures for technical and nontechnical audience
• Experience integrating with a range of healthcare systems (e.g., PAS, EPR, pathology, radiology, scheduling systems) across acute or community settings.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and web services using JSON/XML, particularly in relation to FHIR-based integration.
• Deploying an integration Engine in a cloud environment and making use of PaaS services to support the Integration Engine
• Familiarity with NHS Digital standards and data dictionaries.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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