Overview

Join Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office as a Senior Software Developer in Web Development. You will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to deliver software components that support our vital social security systems.

Our software developers 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.

You 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, 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.

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.