Systems Developer

Systems Developer - 3 years

The closing date is 16 February 2026

Due to current Home Office Guidelines, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is unable to provide sponsorship for this role

Shortlisting to take place in the week following closing date: commencing 17.02.26

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 23.02.26

Born in Bradford (BiB) is an internationally recognised research programme which aims to find out what keeps families healthy and happy. We have a vast 'City of Research' infrastructure which includes detailed health and wellbeing information on Bradfordians enrolled in our three birth cohort studies and a connected routine dataset of health, social care and education data for over 700,000 citizens living in Bradford and Airedale.

We host a range of initiatives to improve population health, working with the local authority, health, education, cultural and voluntary sector providers to develop, implement and evaluate ambitious research programmes ().

We are looking to recruit a Systems Developer to play a key supporting role across the BiB family of projects.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, seriously motivated, and highly organized systems developer to join the BiB Research IT Development Team. The successful applicant will be an experienced software developer, or, systems programmer with a flair for gathering complex systems requirements across a non-technical multidisciplinary team. They will join a team of systems developers, database specialists and analysts in supporting the work of leading epidemiologists and health researchers from across the UK who are working in close partnership as part of Born in Bradford.

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

The post-holder will provide high quality IT and data-driven solutions to support the flow of quality data and information to support research objectives. The development, implementation, maintenance, support and management of information architectures (IA) are activities key to this role. While significant and demonstrable experience as a front-end developer with expertise and flair in UX and designing engaging user interfaces (UI) is also desirable for this role.

The post-holder may be expected to undertake business and system analysis throughout project life cycles.

See job description and person specification for more details

• Degree level qualification in a related field, or, equivalent knowledge and experience
• Master's Degree level qualification in a related field or equivalent knowledge and experienceAD

• Demonstrable experience of working in an IT Environment in any of the following roles:
  Software Developer Systems Analyst/ Programmer
• Experience of designing, developing, testing and deploying applications, particularly n-tier architecture and MVC patterned web-based applications, for data capture and managing data flows.
• Experience of developing applications using web frameworks and technologies
• Experience of coding to develop business logic and data models to enable interoperability between applications and databases
• Experience of programming and scripting in a variety of programming/scripting languages, including SQL and C#
• Experience of testing, debugging, and fixing faults in systems and applications
• Experience of developing database objects, particularly in MS SQL Server and MySQL
• Experience of writing reusable, version-controlled, repository-managed code
• Experience of server and systems administration
• Experience of providing user experience (UX) designed front end applications that are useful and easy to use
• Experience of software configuration and maintenance
• Experience of writing systems documentation for a variety of stakeholders and user groups
• Experience of developing applications in ASP.NET Core, MVC and other MVC-patterned technologies
• Experience developing applications using Java-based web technologies and frameworks
• Experience of working in an academic, or, NHS research setting
• Experience of developing software and system interfaces to NHS systems or equivalent clinical systems
• Experience of app development on a variety of platforms
• Experience of developing and managing web-delivered survey systems for completion on a variety of devices
• Experience of web application server management
• Experience developing applications using Java and Java-based web technologies
• Experience of working in an academic research setting

• Ability to communicate, liaise, influence and negotiate with a wide range of people in different settings and at all levels including academic researchers, and public sector organisations
• Ability to communicate complex…