Software Developer (Integration Platform) (5143)

Job summary

Join Social Security Scotland's Digital Delivery & Change division as a Software Developer (Integration Platform) in the Boomi Integration Platform team. 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.

The Software Developer (Integration Platform) post will sit within Social Security Scotland’s Digital Delivery & Change division which has a remit to provide infrastructure and systems to support both the wider social security programme and Social Security Scotland.

A Software Developer delivers software components that form part of a product.

At this role level, you will:

• develop software to meet user needs
• follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• write clean, secure and well-tested code
• coach and mentor more junior colleagues
• operate the services you build and identify issues in production

GDD Pay Supplement
This post is part of the Government Digital and Data (GDD) profession and currently attracts a £6,000 annual GDD pay supplement, which is paid monthly. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Management of service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Support for specific activities to improve development processes.
• Identification of deficiencies in development processes and contribution to improvements where appropriate.
• Participation in information security activities and processes.
• Design and implementation of embedded security controls within solutions and services.
• Application of a modern standards approach and support for others in adopting it.
• Collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders to review specifications where necessary.
• Use of agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the appropriate standards and tools.
• Participation in team prototyping activities.
• Promotion of the use of prototypes and testing to support design and development.
• Establishment and iteration of design patterns.
• Use of a variety of prototyping methods, selecting the most appropriate approach for the task.
• Resolution of faults in line with agreed procedures.
• Delivery of agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
• Translation of logical designs into physical designs.
• Production and maintenance of documentation in line with required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
• Design of systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact.
• Application of well-understood technologies and identification of appropriate patterns.
• Building and testing of simple interfaces between systems.
• Contribution to more complex integration solutions as part of a wider team.
• Provision of recommendations on the most appropriate tools, methods and approaches to support delivery.

Person specification

Success Profiles
We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about the framework here.

For this post, the following Success Profile elements will be assessed:

Experience:

1. Experience creating and maintaining Boomi integrations allowing you to use agreed specifications to independently design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
   
2. Experience developing and deploying Boomi integrations allowing you to help identify and fix faults following agreed procedures and carry out agreed maintenance tasks.

Behaviours:

• Working Together (Level 3)
• Developing Self and Others (Level 3)

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here.

Technical / Professional Skills:

This role is aligned to General Developer within the Government Digital and Data Profession.

Please review the following to understand the skill expectations: Software Developer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will not be assessed at application stage.

Benefits

Annual Leave - You will receive 25 days annual leave on joining us. This will increase to 30 days after four full years of service. You will also have 11.5 public and privilege days of leave every year. We also offer Flexi-time. Any extra hours you've worked can be taken as leave when suitable.

A Civil Service Pension - This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here - www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.

Healthy work life balance - We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.

Discounts - You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.

Personal support for you - Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.

Volunteering special leave - Up to six days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help causes important to them.

Great locations - Our bright and modern offices in the heart of Dundee and Glasgow have been designed with staff in mind. Both locations are ideal for public transport.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Expected Timeline (Subject to change)
Sift - week commencing 26th October 2026
Interview – week commencing 9th November 2026
Location - In Person in either Dundee or Glasgow

To apply please submit an application form by clicking on the ‘Apply at Advertisers Site’ button.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Resourcing Team
• Email : recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot
• Telephone : 08001577194

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot

Further information

https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/jobs/how-to-make-a-great-application