Salary - £45,894 - £54,952 (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 - Wednesday 12th November 2025 at 23:55. Reference - 2672. Employment Type - Permanent.
Overview
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.
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 well being, 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.
A Senior Developer delivers and integrates software to form a complete service.
At this role level, you will:
* plan and lead development on sets of related stories.
* have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others.
* work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built.
* coach and mentor more junior colleagues.
* operate the production services you build.
* find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability.
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
* You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
* You identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
* 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 identify, locate and fix faults.
* You design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
* You select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
* You review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
* 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.
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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