Salary - £45,894 - £54,952 (plus a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period)
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 31st March 2025 at 23:55
Reference - ID 910
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
Join Social Security Scotland as a Senior Software Engineer and collaborate with experienced professionals to develop and support vital software components that underpin our critical Social Security technical services.
This role sits within the Chief Digital Office’s (CDO) Software Engineering team, which builds and maintains technical services for Social Security Scotland. This includes an enterprise case management system and a range of supporting technical services, used by Clients to submit benefit applications and our internal teams to manage benefit payments.
Our technical staff are largely deployed in Agile teams focussing on new benefits development, live service support and continuous improvement. We believe in supporting our team members' growth and development through their work – the successful candidate will have access to formal training courses and team learning projects to enhance their technical and non-technical skills.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post is part of the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) profession and as a member of the profession you will join the professional development system. This post currently attracts a £5,000 annual DDAT pay supplement, applicable after a 3 months competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly and there is one currently underway. Changes will be communicated when the review is concluded.
Main Duties
• Manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Design and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• Competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
• Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications.
• Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Advocate for the use of prototypes and testing with others.
• Identify, locate and fix faults.
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
• Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
• Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.
• Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
• Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Further Information
Social Security Scotland are a Disability Confident Employer. We will consider and implement any reasonable adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and during the course of your employment, should you be successful in securing a post. If you feel you may require assistance with any part of our recruitment process, please contact us at Recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot.