Salary - £36,944 - £42,244 (plus, a £5,000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3-month qualifying period)
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 16th September 2025 at 23:55
Reference - 2233
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
Join Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office as a Software Developer in the Boomi Integration Platform team. You will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to deliver software components that support our vital social security systems.
Our software engineers are deployed in Agile teams focusing on product development, live service, and continuous improvement. We believe in supporting our team members' growth and development and you will have access to formal training courses and team learning projects. This ensures that you can continuously learn and enhance your skills.
The Software Engineer post 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.
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. Due to the demands of this exciting programme of work, the Agency is currently experiencing rapid growth and we require more incredible digital experts to join us to help realise our ambitions.
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 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.
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.
* Support specific activities to improve development processes.
* Identify obvious deficiencies in development processes.
* Participate in the information security process.
* 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.
* Establish design patterns and iterate them.
* Help fix faults following agreed procedures.
* Carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
* Translate logical designs into physical designs.
* Produce detailed designs.
* Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
* Design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact.
* Work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
* Build and test simple interfaces between systems.
* Work on more complex integration as part of a wider team.
* Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.
* Champion user research to focus on all users.
* 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.
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