Software Developer

Job Title: Software Developer 

Salary: £44,322 - £47,982   

Hours: 35 hours per week   

Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)  

Contract: Permanent   

About us 

We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland.  Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices. 

We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement.  We inspect individual care services and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas. 

Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. We are moving towards an expectation that all staff will work collaboratively, within and across teams, in person, for approximately 40% of their working week. 

Starting Salary 

Please bear in mind that new entrants start on the grade minimum for the role. However, we have a generous benefits package which you will find on our website.    

About the role 

We are recruiting a Software Developer to work within our Digital team to support the IT, transformation and business change projects, with the design, build, test and release of Digital Applications to meet the Care Inspectorate business requirements, using the Microsoft Azure platform and other Microsoft technologies. 

Reporting to the Applications Manager, you will develop and maintain our business applications and deliver an applications support service.  Working in an Agile environment, in alignment with ITIL best practice, you will support incident, problem, configuration, change and release management processes, as part of our IT service delivery. 

You will assist the internal customer with the analysis of business requirements to produce agreed functional and non-functional design requirements and work with the development team, research and develop modular code solutions, refining and re-writing as required, to derive code that contributes to the production of effective and efficient software solutions. 

About you 

You will ideally hold a degree or similar equivalent qualification to a minimum of Level 9 of the SCQF Framework and have relevant experience in Computer Science and Software Development 

You will have direct work experience which can evidence: 

• Experience in software development, working across the entire software development cycle, using a variety of software design patterns. 
• Ability to plan, execute, track and report on delivery progress against requirements. 
• Knowledge of the Microsoft .NET framework and web development, including HTML, JavaScript and MVC. 
• Experienced in designing and implementing relational databases in MS SQL Server. 
• Competent in cloud architecture and technologies. 
• Experience in continuous improvement of development, integration, and delivery processes. 
• Experience in Agile methodologies 
• Experience of working as part of an agile software delivery team. 
• Experience of providing customer support for in-house developed software solutions. 

Next steps 

You will find more information in the job profile and person specification. 

 To Apply 

If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please download and complete an application form and an equal opportunities form by 08:00 on Monday 7 October 2024. 

It is anticipated that interviews will be held during the week commencing 21 October 2024 at a suitable Care Inspectorate office location.