Senior Systems Engineer

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will

Develop, build, and operate highly available, distributed systems that deliver critical national services within NHS England.

Work within and contribute to NHS England's engineering principles and standards.

Take technical ownership across the system landscape, including applications, infrastructure, networking, environments, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling.

Collaborate with peers to solve complex technical challenges and drive continual improvement in engineering standards across the organisation.

Contribute to the ongoing improvement of engineering maturity within the team.

Coach, mentor, and support colleagues in their professional and technical development.

Candidates must demonstrate experience of the following in their application:

Application development

Test engineering and automation

Infrastructure engineering, e.g. infrastructure as code

CI/CD including design, development and maintenance of pipelines

Operating services in production

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Qualifications

Skills

Experience