Job Description

Details

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Reference number

435554

Salary

36,944 - 42,244
Plus a 5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after a 3 month competency qualifying period.
GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer
B2

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

The Software Developer role will sit within Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office (CDO), which has a remit to provide infrastructure and systems to support both the wider social security programme and Social Security Scotland.



A developer delivers software components that form part of a product.



At this role level, you will:

develop software to meet user needs follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines write clean, secure and well-tested code coach and mentor more junior colleagues operate the services you build and identify issues in production

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.



Social Security Scotland, an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, delivers 17 major benefits, reaching around 2 million people across Scotland. With an annual benefit budget of 6.7 billion for 2025-26, Social Security Scotland plays a central role in supporting low-income and disabled individuals, carers, and families, while contributing to the Scottish Government's statutory child poverty targets. Our Charter affirms the agency's values and commitments, ensuring that clients are treated with dignity, fairness and respect, and that their feedback informs service enhancements.



Social Security Scotland embeds a positive and inclusive organisational culture. This focuses on employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, professional development, and performance improvement. The agency recognises that its workforce is key to delivering high-quality public services and is committed to creating an environment where staff are empowered to grow and contribute meaningfully.

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.

Job description

You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. You support specific activities to improve development processes. You identify obvious deficiencies in development processes. You participate in the information security process. You design and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services. You competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so. You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. You participate in team prototyping. You advocate for the use of prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate. You help fix faults following agreed procedures. You carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure. You translate logical designs into physical designs. You produce detailed designs. You effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate. You design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. You work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns. You build and test simple interfaces between systems. You work on more complex integration as part of a wider team. 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.

Person specification

Essential Experience

Your experience writing programs and scripts using Curam Social Program Management allows you to use agreed specifications to independently design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. Your experience developing and debugging Curam Social Program Management allows you to help identify and fix faults following agreed procedures and carry out agreed maintenance tasks.

Behaviours

Communicating and Influencing (Level 3) Working Together (Level 3)

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here.

Technical / Professional Skills

This role is aligned to General Developer 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.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

Expected Timeline (subject to change)

Sift - w/c 10th November

Interview - w/c 24th November & w/c 1st December

Location - In Person in either Dundee or Glasgow



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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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 .

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

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

Email : recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot

Further information

https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/working-with-us/help-with-your-application