Salary - £57,701 - £71,942 (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 - 26th June 2025 at 23:55
Reference - 1446
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
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:
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
• 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.
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.
More information about the role and how to apply is available at:
Careers at Social Security Scotland