SPM Technical Lead

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, we are delivering a social security system that will support Scotland for decades to come. This role sits within the Chief Digital Office's (CDO) Software Engineering team, which builds and maintains software services for Social Security Scotland. This includes an enterprise case management system and a range of supporting technical services, used by Clients to submit benefit applications and our internal teams to manage benefit payments. 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

• You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• You identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• You participate in the information security process.
• You design and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• You apply the most appropriate modern standards and practices, and coach and guide others in these standards.
• You advise on the right way to apply standards and methods to ensure compliance.
• You maintain technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a software development project.
• You provide technical advice to stakeholders and set the team-based standards for programming tools and techniques.
• You participate in team prototyping.
• You advocate for the use of prototypes and testing with others.
• You establish design patterns and iterate them.
• You use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
• You identify, locate and fix faults.
• You design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
• You select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
• You review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• You define the integration build.
• You co-ordinate build activities across systems.
• You understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• You collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.
• You champion user research to focus on all users.
• You prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
• You offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.