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Associate Software Engineer
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £32,140 to £34,861 per year |
| Additional salary information: | This post attracts a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 June 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow or Dundee |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Scottish Government |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2024-8992 |
Summary
Salary - £32,140- £34,861 plus a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period)
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 37 hours per week
Closing Date - 6th of June 2024 at 23:55
Reference - ID 2024-8992
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
Join us as an Associate Software Engineer and be a part of the largest and most exciting IT and digital change programme since devolution. If you have valuable experience in developing with Java and relational database management systems, and if you strive for excellence in your work, then our Associate Software Engineer role might just be the perfect fit for you.
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing applications, APIs, and other components. You will work closely with the development team, as well as the test, infrastructure, and release management functions, to ensure successful delivery of national programmes.
If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a positive impact, we welcome your application to join our team.
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.
The Associate Software Engineer 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, including:
• Engineering & Cloud Services
• Architecture
• Technologies and Platforms
• Digital Risk and Cyber Protection
• Operational Delivery and Capability
• Service Management & Service Development
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.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role.Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession you will join the professional development system, currently BCS Role Mode lplus.
Main Duties
• You support work to improve the availability of services and ensure that they can handle expected load.
• You participate in the activities of the information security process.
• You implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• You apply the principles of a modern standards approach under the guidance of others.
• You design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others.
• You apply prototyping techniques or methods.
• You help fix faults following agreed procedures.
• You carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
• You assist as part of a team in the design of components of larger systems.
• You support the process of integrating systems.
• You support building and testing interfaces between systems.
• You support user experience analysis.
• You work from user stories, focusing on user needs.
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
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 37 hours per week
Closing Date - 6th of June 2024 at 23:55
Reference - ID 2024-8992
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
Join us as an Associate Software Engineer and be a part of the largest and most exciting IT and digital change programme since devolution. If you have valuable experience in developing with Java and relational database management systems, and if you strive for excellence in your work, then our Associate Software Engineer role might just be the perfect fit for you.
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing applications, APIs, and other components. You will work closely with the development team, as well as the test, infrastructure, and release management functions, to ensure successful delivery of national programmes.
If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a positive impact, we welcome your application to join our team.
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.
The Associate Software Engineer 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, including:
• Engineering & Cloud Services
• Architecture
• Technologies and Platforms
• Digital Risk and Cyber Protection
• Operational Delivery and Capability
• Service Management & Service Development
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.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role.Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession you will join the professional development system, currently BCS Role Mode lplus.
Main Duties
• You support work to improve the availability of services and ensure that they can handle expected load.
• You participate in the activities of the information security process.
• You implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• You apply the principles of a modern standards approach under the guidance of others.
• You design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others.
• You apply prototyping techniques or methods.
• You help fix faults following agreed procedures.
• You carry out agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
• You assist as part of a team in the design of components of larger systems.
• You support the process of integrating systems.
• You support building and testing interfaces between systems.
• You support user experience analysis.
• You work from user stories, focusing on user needs.
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