Senior Integration Developer

Job overview

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Technical Expertise: Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points). In-depth knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and NHS messaging frameworks; scripting with JavaScript, XPath, and transformation logic. Proficiency in any one of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle for data querying/auditing. Experience with RESTful APIs (JSON/XML) and web services integration.
• Advanced experience with Rhapsody Integration Engine (filters, translators, communication points).
• In-depth knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and NHS messaging frameworks; scripting with JavaScript, XPath, and transformation logic.
• 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