Job Description

Details

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Reference number

419756

Salary

74,480 - 85,964
GBP

Job grade

Grade 6
C2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

SSS - Chief Digital Office

Type of role

Other

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Dundee, Glasgow

About the job

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Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Curam Social Program Management (SPM) Specialist to join our Digital and Technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the design, development, and ongoing support of our Curam platform, which underpins critical services for clients.


As a subject matter expert in Curam SPM, you will bring deep technical knowledge of the platform's architecture, configuration, and lifecycle management. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure our Curam solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with user needs.


In addition to your technical responsibilities, you will play a vital role in building internal capability by designing and delivering structured Curam training programmes. Your contribution will help develop our in-house expertise and support the long-term sustainability of our digital services.


The role works in directly to the Chief Architect and is a cross-cutting role between the Architecture and Engineering branches. The role requires working between Architectural standards and reviews while also working with Engineering staff to help train and support their coding development. As part of the role, you will also assist with ongoing priority incidents, providing guidance to assist resolution.


Social Security Scotland, an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, is undertaking the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over 300m, Social Security Scotland is delivering a social security system that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come.


We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect, and recognise each other's contributions.



A principal developer leads and plans development across large or multiple teams.


At this role level, you will:

be an expert in many technical areas or a specialist with very deep knowledge in a particular technical area. use this knowledge, and work with related disciplines, to keep multiple teams working effectively. develop capability by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and recruiting talent, ensuring they collaborate. identify, test and champion the adoption of emerging technologies.

Job description

You share best practice and coach others. You maintain technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a software development project. You provide technical advice to stakeholders and set the team-based standards for programming tools and techniques. You use a variety of prototyping methods. You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. You identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes. You lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. You help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards. You lead the information security process in teams. You design, quality review and quality assure solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature. You apply the most appropriate SPM standards and practices, and coach and guide others in these standards. You advise on the right way to apply standards and methods to ensure compliance. You look at strategic service design end to end. You identify, locate and fix faults. You design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You control system design practice within an enterprise or industry architecture. You influence industry-based models for the development of new technology applications. You develop effective implementation and procurement strategies, consistent with business needs. You ensure adherence to relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices. You define the integration build. You co-ordinate build activities across systems. You understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. You collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You champion user research to focus on all users. You prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. You will have proven experience at designing, developing and delivering SPM courses in areas such as Curam Express Rules, Workflow, Intelligent Evidence Gathering and Batch. You will help to identify, test and champion the adoption of emerging technologies to help drive supportable and sustainable services

Person specification

Essential Experience

1. Your experience writing high complexity programs using Java, Curam/Social Program Management (SPM) allows you to provide technical advice to stakeholders and set the standards used across teams for programming tools and techniques.


2. Your experience implementing, improving and fixing issues in SPM, allows you to lead the design reviews of systems of high technical complexity, ensuring adherence to relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices.


3. Your extensive experience delivering features using Curam Express Rules, Workflows, Batch etc. enables you to work with product, design and security leadership to define technical and product roadmaps across multiple teams.

Behaviours

o Leadership (Level 4)

o Developing self and others (Level 4)



You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here: Success Profiles - Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Technical / Professional Skills:

This role is aligned to Principal developer - Non Management within the Digital, Data and Technology Profession.



These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will be not be assessed at application stage. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations: Software developer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Benefits

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Annual Leave - You will receive 25 days annual leave on joining us. This will increase to 30 days after four full years of service. You will also have 11.5 public and privilege days of leave every year. We also offer Flexi-time. Any extra hours you've worked can be taken as leave when suitable.




A Civil Service Pension - This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here - www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.




Healthy work life balance - We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.




Discounts - You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.




Personal support for you - Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.




Volunteering special leave - Up to six days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help causes important to them.




Great locations - Our bright and modern offices in the heart of Dundee and Glasgow have been designed with staff in mind. Both locations are ideal for public transport.

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Selection process details

Expected Timeline

(subject to change)


Sift - w/c 11th August

Interview - w/c 25th August

Location -

In Person

in either Dundee or Glasgow



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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Resourcing Team Email : recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot
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Recruitment team

Email : recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot

Further information

https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/jobs/how-to-make-a-great-application