Tech Lead, Systems Engineer, IT Consultant

Job Description:

Tech Lead (Health Services)

Primary location:
Salford (M50 3SP
) or Staines (TW18 3DZ
) or London (EC2R 7HJ
) or Leeds (LS5 3BF
)

Flexible / Hybrid working options

Permanent

£74,400 - £92,000 (Negotiable depending on experience & location)

10% Bonus+ fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours

We make health happen

At Bupa, we're passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives. Right from the start you'll become part of our digital & data strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

We're looking for a talented Technical Lead to join our Health Services Technology team. In this role, you'll design and deliver high‑quality applications and solutions that support clinical and business operations across Bupa. You'll work closely with Product Managers and technical SMEs to ensure our technology meets business needs and aligns with strategic direction.

You'll bring strong engineering expertise, experience delivering healthcare technology, and the ability to lead a multidisciplinary team. From shaping technical direction to guiding development and improving system capabilities, you'll play a key role in driving innovation across our clinical and digital platforms.

• Develop high quality applications
• Working closely with other digital tech teams to ensure design and user experience is consistent and meet requirements.
• Development of new or existing applications and solutions in line with application designs, development standards, methodologies and strategic architecture frameworks.
• Working as a lead alongside technical SMEs within product teams and projects of varying scope and size.
• Can spot problems prior to development or serve up solutions to combat issues as they arise throughout the lifespan of a project.
• Evaluate existing products and solutions to propose practical improvements, taking ownership and working with colleagues and business owners to implement changes.
• Drive improvements to development practices and technical documentation.
• Take ownership of maintaining and expanding development standards within your technical domain.
• Investigate and propose the establishment of new technologies and methodologies that can improve development practices and products.
• Takes ownership for resolving domain specific related problems, which directly or indirectly impact on operational services or development activities.
• Manage implementation activities, change control and release planning.
• Take ownership of improvements for internal documentation of products and technical solutions.
• Become the point of contact for technical and domain specific support for other teams within your technical domain.
• Establish and maintain credibility and working relationships with other teams within Bupa, being an ambassador for Bupa IT within the business community, supporting a customer service culture.
• Ensure solutions are taken through appropriate internal governance processes such as Technical Design Authorities and other forums.
• Support the procurement of new technologies and solutions aligned to business / technology requirements including vendor assessments / selection, RFIs and RFPs
• Responsible for understanding and maintaining data models and inter-system relationships, dependencies, and integrations.
• Creating compliant and robust solution architectures aligned with business requirements / goals / strategy, technology strategy, regulatory / legal requirements and Bupa policy.
• Defines, documents and maintains relevant designs (including integration / specification documents) and intellectual property on a defined area of the Bupa estate. Create integration and other specification documents.
• Consider the options to solve business challenges through many lenses, Engineering, Business, Security, Data and Operations.
• Recommend solutions based on time to value, overall costs and risks and strategic fit.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with our partner organisations, helping to align our technical efforts with external needs.
• Clearl…