• Develop integration and interoperability solutions in accordance with Trust development standards and the guidance of the Integration Development Manager.

• Build extensible data acquisition and integration solutions to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the business.

• Implement processes and logic to extract, transform, and distribute data across one or more data stores from a wide variety of sources.

• Follow local integration development methodology, including strict adherence to the Trust change and release procedures and associated documentation.

• Build solutions from user requirement and functional specifications that are fit for purpose, scalable and flexible as true enterprise solutions.

• Optimize data integration platform to provide optimal performance under increasing data volumes.

• Upload data into appropriate databases in accurate and timely manner.

• Develop efficient solutions according to good development practice, promoting code re-use and efficient development.

• Interpret relevant professional, departmental, Trust and national policy, as well as Legal and Information/Clinical Governance requirements when implementing solutions.

• Produce robust and detailed technical documentation in support of solution implementations and ongoing service operations.

• Contribute significantly to software development methodology to achieve the optimal applications capability, development productivity, maintainability and performance.

• Demonstrate consistent individual performance in HL7, FHIR, XML, Web Services (among other) technologies, as core development skills to a high standard.

• Develop solutions in ways that allow future changes to be implemented with minimal service disruption.

• Manage their own work plan and that of more junior staff according to agreed deliverables and timeframes, reporting any deviations to the Integration Development Manager.

• Lead and contribute to regular technical workshops and reviews with members of the Integration Team in the interests of knowledge sharing, technical design and problem resolution.

• Contribute to the development of data integration standards according to the enterprise’s information services policies as well as best practices.

• Conduct peer review of other developers’ work to ensure consistent methodologies are followed and to make recommendations where necessary.

• Liaise with users at all levels to ensure digital solutions support and improve their operations.

• Work with Analysts and Business Users to translate functional specifications into technical designs for implementation and deployment.

• Provide third-line support across integration solutions as part of routine incident management, ensuring service level agreements and customer satisfaction are consistently achieved.

• Liaise with wider technical teams including local system managers and the Trust’s IT service provider, Sphere, as part of incident and problem management, and new solution design.

• Liaise with third party software vendors to agree new solution designs and to resolve incidents and problems during business-as-usual operations.

• Work closely with local system managers to agree requirements, solution designs, testing plans and implementation timelines for changes affecting their areas of responsibility.

• Deliver solutions consistently according to agreed departmental priorities and plans, raising concerns and issues affecting delivery in a timely way to managers.

• Escalate issues affecting system performance to managers, raising change requests as needed to ensure the ongoing good health of systems.

• Perform rigorous unit, integration and system testing to ensure changes are released with minimal adverse impact.

• Attend offsite training as required to ensure their skills and knowledge are appropriate for current and future development needs.

• Be the technical lead for key application/integration areas, representing RM Digital Services as required at project meetings, technical workshops, and technical calls.

• Form part of evaluation teams during the procurement of new solutions and technologies.

• Report the status of work packages and record their time accurately on a weekly basis so that the progress and cost of work can be properly determined.

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