Hackajob
is collaborating with
Social Security Scotland
to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.
Are you an experienced software engineering leader who would like to make a positive difference to a critical public service?
We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join an established team of software engineering professionals within our Chief Digital Office. The successful candidate will lead a team of 20+ permanent staff who have specific responsibility for supporting and improving our enterprise case management system, Social Program Management (SPM). 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. This position is central to our ability to build and maintain robust and secure technical services for our organisation. We aim to develop a positive and inclusive culture within Social Security Scotland by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity, fairness and respect and recognise each other’s contributions. We believe in supporting our team members' growth and development through their work – the successful candidate will also have access to formal training courses and team learning projects to enhance their technical and non-technical skills. A Lead Software Engineer leads development on one or a small number of related project teams. At this role level, you will:
Guide the ways in which the team works;
Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems
Be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches, deciding when software should be written
Contribute to the developer community
Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring your team
Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice
Responsibilities • Identify availability and capacity issues; stipulate and implement necessary changes. • Initiate remedial action when performance targets are not met. • Recognise and implement opportunities to optimise processes. • Lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. • Evaluate and establish requirements for change implementation by setting policy and standards. • Participate in the information security process. • Design and embed security controls within solutions and services. • Apply modern standards and practices; coach and guide others accordingly. • Advise on applying standards and methods to ensure compliance. • Maintain technical responsibility throughout all stages and iterations of software development. • Provide technical advice to stakeholders; set team standards for programming tools and techniques. • Engage in team prototyping and advocate for testing with others. • Establish and iterate design patterns using appropriate prototyping methods. • Identify, locate, and rectify faults. • Design systems with medium levels of risk, impact, and technical or business complexity. • Select and effectively apply suitable design standards, methods, and tools. • Review others’ system designs to ensure appropriate technology choices, resource efficiency, and system integration. • Define the integration build and coordinate build activities across systems. • Support and undertake integration testing activities. • Collaborate with user researchers and represent user interests internally. • Champion user research to encompass all users. • Prioritise and define approaches to understand user stories; guide others in the process. • Recommend the most suitable tools and methods.
Success Profiles We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Essential Experience
You have experience of developing and deploying Social Program Management (SPM) systems, with the ability to establish monitoring, alerting, and operational procedures to consistently identify, locate, and resolve faults.
You have proven managerial experience, with a track record of developing team members to their full potential and effectively managing performance issues.
Behaviours • Making effective decisions (Level 4) • Leadership (Level 4)
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. Working pattern Our standard hours are 35 hours per week and we offer a range of flexible working options, depending on the needs of the role. We embrace a hybrid working style where all colleagues will spend time in either our Glasgow or Dundee offices. There is an expectation of a minimum 2 days per week in your assigned location, which will be either Glasgow or Dundee.
If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.