AMS PSR

On behalf of Digital Health and Care Wales we are looking for a Java Developer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Remote working with occasional travel to Cardiff. 

Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.

The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. We will achieve this by working in partnership with all NHS Wales organisations and through our expert and dedicated workforce.

As a Java Developer your main responsibilities will be:

• Working as part of a well-structured Scrum teams, under the guidance of experienced team leads, you shall take responsibility for delivering individual software components.
• You will be working toward a previously built design solution and are expected to take the lead in the development and ensure it is rigorously tested and documented in accordance with DHCW and industry best practices.
• In addition to new developments, you will be involved in exploring options and developing solutions for integration of legacy system elements.

Essential:

The following skills are key for this role:

• Java, Jakarta EE Object-oriented programming.
• System architecture design for high-performance and scalable integration (based on microservices).
• Multithreading & performance.
• Observability & Monitoring Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2, JCAPs, Fiorano, Biztalk, IBM Websphere or other) and messaging Queues (Rabbit MQ, Active MQ, other) Web Services (inc.) API, along with XML, XSLT, .Net and SQL, SOAP, REST Networking / connectivity / TCP / UDP / sockets.
• Containerized applications, using Docker, Kubernetes Observability and monitoring tools CI/CD and DevOps tools.
• Agile methodology and SDLC Experience.
• Apache Camel HL7 v 2.x and FHIR messaging standards Knowledge of High Availability solutions, such as Mirroring, Replication, Clustering, and Always On (Availability Groups)
• Modelling tools and languages such as Enterprise Architect / UML Expert understanding of OOP.
• Unit testing, software design patterns.
• SOLID principles and TDD

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Digital Health and Care Wales guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".