Principal .NET Engineer

We are currently looking for a Principal .NET Engineer to join us in shaping the future of digital healthcare.

Role summary

As a Principal .NET Engineer at 6B Digital, you will play a pivotal role in leading the development of our digital solutions, with a focus on healthcare integration. You will work closely with our engineering team, project managers, and clients to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure .NET-based solutions. Your expertise will be critical in guiding the development of systems capable of helping hundreds of thousands of patients throughout the UK.

Your key responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

• Leads a team of technical engineers and is responsible for the output in complex development projects
• Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects
• Ensures adherence to technical strategies and systems architectures (including security)
• Provide technical expertise and guidance in development best practices, tools, and frameworks
• Lead the engineering team in establishing coding standards and guidelines for development
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, performance, and maintainability
• Mentor and assist junior engineers, fostering their growth and development.

Solutions Activities:

• Leads system design activities for large, complex systems
• Ensures the engineering team are following the proposed architecture and frequently reviews this with the team
• Documents systems for future use and development.

Quality Assurance and Testing:

• Leads activities to manage risks and opportunities associated with testing
• Writes maintainable unit and feature tests on projects that follow the AAA methodology
• Promotes a culture of quality throughout 6B and drives the adoption of testing policies and standards
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, ensuring high-quality and bug-free deliverables.

Collaboration and Communication

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, and delivery managers and product owners
• Participate in project planning and estimation, providing technical insights and recommendations
• Effectively communicate project progress, challenges, and solutions to stakeholders
• Manages trade-offs and functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders
• Work when required with the business development team in assisting with sales opportunities, quotes and tender applications.

Required skills

• Extensive experience in .NET development, specifically C#, ASP.NET Core (6+) and .NET Framework
• Previous experience working with SignalR
• Good knowledge of Blazor or other front end frameworks
• Usually at least 10+ years of experience being a professional engineer in the specific domain
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and best practices
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling
• Experience with testing frameworks (nUnit, xUnit or bUnit) and code quality tools
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with an attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and project management tools (JIRA, Confluence)
• Working with version control software such as GitHub.

Nice to haves

• Experience with integrating with primary care EHRs including SystmOne, EMIS Web and Cegedim VisioE
• Experience with integrating with secondary care EHRs including Cerner, Epic, AllScripts and Ri
• Understanding of interoperability standards such as HL7 FHI
• Knowledge of security and compliance in healthcare applications
• Previous experience with NHS England APIs, e.g. GP Connect, NHS APP, PDS and CIS
• Experience with Azure DevOps and service
• Experience with static code analyser
• Produces solution documentation, for example a DPIA, System architecture, ERDs and Dataflows.

Email your CV to careers@6bdigital.com to apply.

No recruitment companies please.