Dundee - Associate Software Engineer - SPM
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 12th February 2025 at 23:55
Reference - 563
Employment Type - Permanent
Overview
Join Social Security Scotland as an Associate Software Engineer and collaborate with experienced professionals to develop vital software components for our social security services. This role will enable the job holder to continue to build their Java coding, system design, and maintenance as part of a supportive and inclusive team of software engineering professionals.If you’re eager to grow your skills and help make a difference, apply today and contribute to shaping the future of social security in Scotland.
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.
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.
An Associate Software Engineer learns on the job by delivering software components.
At this role level, you will:
- Develop skills while working under supervision to deliver stories in a multidisciplinary team
- Understand and be proficient in different types of testing
- Be aware of but not responsible for security
- Coach and mentor more junior colleagues
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 plus.
Main Duties- Collaborate to improve service availability and ensure systems can handle the expected workload.
- Participate in activities to ensure robust information security.
- Add security features to our solutions and services.
- Apply a modern standards approach whilst learning from more experienced team members.
- Help design, write, test, and document simple programmes or scripts with supervision.
- Use techniques for creating prototypes.
- Help to fix issues by following agreed procedures.
- Complete assigned maintenance tasks on our technical infrastructure.
- Help design parts of larger systems as part of a team.
- Support the building and testing of interfaces between systems.
- Work from user stories, focusing on what users need.
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.