Are you looking for a role in a high profile, fast moving, priority area of the Scottish Government?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Scottish Government’s (SG) Corporate Transformation Directorate for an experienced Product Manager. This varied and rewarding role within the Corporate Hub will afford you the opportunity to further your Oracle cloud knowledge.
The Corporate Hub is a new capability at the heart of SG and has been designed to manage our Oracle Cloud platform, connecting business units, digital teams, and our public body customers.
We are transforming our HR, Finance and purchasing capabilities and are looking to build a specialised team of Product Managers to shape and develop our Oracle platform to ensure services run smoothly with minimal disruption.
Working alongside colleagues from the Corporate Hub Platform Management Team, you will coordinate inputs and contributions of Finance, HR, Digital, Corporate Transformation teams along with 3rd party services. You will also provide support to help organise and build a way of working that becomes increasingly efficient, quarter by quarter.
You, and the team will quickly adapt and gain an understanding of the end-to-end architecture, the integrations, their purpose and their issues, working closely with Digital and 3rd parties.
You will be fully supported as the team and objectives evolve, and training will be provided in order to deliver a high quality service to all SG stakeholders.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5,000 per annum pro-rata DDaT Pay Supplement after a 3 month competency qualifying period. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review.
Imagine playing a key role in delivering public services for all!
Would you like to build and run the platforms that underpin public services in Scotland? In the cloud and platform services division, our mission is to design, build, and operate a Scottish Government platform for Public Sector bodies across Scotland, providing: Cloud Computing, Digital Payments, and Digital Identity. By establishing common platforms, we support organisational transformation, allowing bodies to deliver their services more efficiently, more quickly, and at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have broad software development expertise and will understand the goals and strategy behind each project from inception to running as a live service. This will involve providing technical expertise at the project level and responsibility for successful delivery of individual applications or components.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO WORK HERE?
** Adam Barclay, Software Engineering Manager **
"I've found the Scottish Government to be a supportive working environment and appreciate that my colleagues are all working towards a common goal. As someone who was previously employed in the private sector, I enjoy having the opportunity to work on software projects that will have a positive impact on the lives of people in Scotland."
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HOW WILL I SPEND MY TIME?
As a senior software engineer you will contribute to the development of our secure, scalable, and resilient software platforms. You will use your expertise to advise on the technical direction of the solution, review code, and mentor junior members of the team to make sure a high standard is maintained. As part of a cross functional agile team, you will be responsible for the whole of the software development lifecycle, including interpreting the requirements, writing unit and integration tests, coding the solution, and automating infrastructure creation, software deployment, and monitoring.
You would be joining at an exciting time where we are investing in growing our team and supporting colleagues’ professional development to broaden their skills while increasing their depth of knowledge with the latest technologies.
What technologies will you use?
Our services and applications run on AWS using Kubernetes, backend services are written in Java, with Node JS and Typescript used for front end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, DynamoDB and Redis. We use Grafana/Prometheus for metrics and dashboarding; and Gitlab for CI/CD. The cloud platform team operate both an AWS and Azure platform.
We have an excellent opportunity for a high calibre finance professional to join the Finance Business Partner Unit. Finance Business Partnering is one of five areas reporting to the Chief Financial Officer in the Scottish Government’s Finance Directorate. We provide financial advice and support relating to the development and delivery of devolved policy across all the government’s front-line spending programmes, encapsulating expenditure of some £50 billion annually.
Due to staff movements, we are looking to fill a Finance Business Partner post at C1 level.
Finance Business Partner has responsibility for one or more Ministerial spending portfolios or are embedded within specific business areas. They are critical to providing high quality financial support and advice to a range of stakeholders, including Ministers and Senior Officers, as well as supporting effective financial management, best value decision making and robust financial control.
Finance Business Partner leads on effective financial management of their portfolio areas.
