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 recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
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Certificate of Sponsorship
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

o Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points).
o In-depth knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and NHS messaging frameworks; scripting with JavaScript, XPath, and transformation logic.
o Proficiency in any one of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle for data querying/auditing.
o 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

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.