Specialist Software Developer

3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter. Job Description: We are currently looking for a new Specialist Software Developer to join our 3M|M*Modal Health Care Business in the UK . Role Location - role covers the whole of the UK Candidate location - flexible within the UK dependent on candidate suitability Travel - Willing to travel within the UK on a reasonably regular basis. Estimated 10-20%. Salary - high-reaching dependent on skills and experience plus excellent benefits package. Key Benefits Include: * Company car * 25 days paid annual holiday, rising to 30 days with service, plus Bank Holidays * Contributory SMART Stakeholder Pension Scheme with up to 10% employer contribution * Life Assurance Scheme 4 x salary * Private Healthcare including optional family cover * General Employee Stock Purchase Plan providing the opportunity to purchase 3M stock at discounted rates * Discount on 3M products * Employee discount scheme providing preferential rates across major UK retailers and service providers * Reduced subscriptions on various insurance schemes * Employee Assistance Programme * Financial support for further education Introduction to 3M|M*Modal 3M|M*Modal is a fast-moving speech technology company. Our portfolio of conversational speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies is widely recognized as the most advanced in the industry. We are a leading innovator in the field of conversational documentation services (CDS) - where speech recognition and natural language understanding are combined in a unique setup targeted to truly understand conversational speech and turn it directly into actionable and meaningful data. Our proprietary speech understanding technology - operating on 3M|M*Modal's computing grid hosted in our national data centre - is already redefining the way clinical information is captured in healthcare . Overall Mission Lead a team of developers to deliver programs of major importance to the organization's interests leading to and/or supporting innovative applications and extensions of new and existing technologies, products and/or businesses. Job Responsibilities * Technical Contributions. * Identifies, plans, recommends, and completes major technical programs leading to innovative applications and extensions of existing and new technologies. * Consistently applies innovative and advanced technical skills to provide support and services to expand opportunities, reduce risks, and generate revenue * Maintains a flow of major technical contributions in areas of technical expertise. Recommends and develops solutions for technical and product problems. * Interactions. Develop a network of support to facilitate completion of programs. May guide interactions with customers to better understand customer relations, customer's processes, and applications. * Leadership. Assumes leadership role for technical programs of importance within the organization. Leads and supervises a UK-based development team. * Intellectual Property. May review and/or generate intellectual property positions at the business level, including proprietary advances. patents, trade secrets, etc. * Communication. Communicates results of assigned and self-initiated technical tasks to the business group and/or appropriate technical community. * Strategic Planning. Understanding of market and technology trends and demonstration of advanced knowledge, skills, abilities to participate in technical strategic planning at the division level, including ownership of the development pipeline. * Commercial Impact. Proven and sustained ability to generate and lead new research and development programs having significant commercial impact. * Corporate Initiatives. Leads application of key corporate initiatives and appropriate tools. Knowledge & Skills * Strong people leader with supervisory experience * Experience of working in health care sector * Customer oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills * Ability to manage multiple projects and to prioritize completion in a fast-paced environment * Ability to problem solve quickly and effectively * Effective listening and problem solving and critical thinking skills * Responds strongly and positively to challenging work and deadlines * Ability to follow through on problems and issues, creating procedures and tools to prevent future problems * Experience with speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language processing * Commercial experience in the development and deployment of secure cloud based database applications * Experience in the field of Health Informatics * Knowledge of health care terminologies and classifications such as SnomedCT, ICD/OPCS and HRG Qualifications * Bachelor's degree level in