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Applications from individuals not currently on the Priority Mover list will be rejected and not considered.\nJoin us as an Engineering Manager (C2) and play a key role in shaping the services and technology that support digital public services across Scotland.\nHelp shape the digital services that support people and organisations across Scotland, leading a team responsible for delivering secure, resilient and scalable services that enable the effective management of billions of pounds of public funds each year.\nJoin the Scottish Government's Digital Components and Infrastructure division as an Engineering Manager within our Payments team. You will lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for building, operating and continually improving ScotPayments, the Scottish Government's strategic payments service.\nScotPayments provides secure, resilient and scalable payment capabilities that public sector organisations rely on to make and manage payments efficiently. As a critical national digital service, it supports a growing range of public bodies across Scotland and processes billions of pounds of public funds annually.\nAs an Engineering Manager, you will provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, helping your team deliver high-quality services while fostering engineering excellence, modern development practices and continuous improvement. You will work closely with stakeholders to shape technical solutions, improve service performance and ensure systems remain secure, reliable and fit for the future.\nHaving recently completed a major multi-year transformation programme, the team is now focused on enhancing service capabilities, supporting wider adoption and enabling the future delivery of modern payment services across the Scottish public sector.\nTechnology Stack\nOur services and applications run on AWS using Lambda functions. Backend services are written in C#, while Node.js and TypeScript are used for front-end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, RDS Postgres and DynamoDB. We use GitHub for CI/CD.\nWhy Join Us?\nA 35-hour working week\nFlexible hybrid working\nOffices in Glasgow or Edinburgh\nA strong Civil Service pension\nSupport for continuous professional development\nWhere You'll Work\nThis role can be based in either:\nAtlantic Quay, Glasgow\nVictoria Quay, Edinburgh\nWe offer flexible Hybrid working. Scottish Government currently requires colleagues in hybrid-compatible roles to spend at least 40% of their working time in an agreed workplace location.\nResponsibilities\nManagement & Leadership\nLine management responsibilities for a team, mentoring and developing them to deliver service improvements you identify; and implementing opportunities to optimise processes;\n\nApplying the most appropriate modern standards and practices, coaching and guiding others in these standards advising on the right way to apply standards and methods to ensure compliance.\n\nMaintaining technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a software development project. Providing technical advice to stakeholders.\n\nBuilding and Running software\nSet the team-based standards for programming tools and techniques.\n\nIdentify availability and capacity issues, identify, and instigate the required changes.\n\nIdentifying, locating and fixing faults.\n\nDesign\nDesigning systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.\n\nEstablishing and iterating design patterns selecting appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. Participating in the information security process, designing and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.\n\nExperience:\nYour Experience Operating Live Systems: Your experience operating live systems enables you to manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.\nYour Experience Engineering Systems: Your experience engineering systems with a variety of technologies and architectures allows you to lead the design of systems, choosing appropriate technologies, approaches and embedded security controls.\n\nYour Experience as a Manager: Your experience as a manager enables you to lead improvements to the operation of the engineering organization, leading initiatives to improve overall engineering team performance.\n\nYour Experience Developing People: Your experience as a manager enables you to develop individuals in your team to their full potential and address performance issues.\n\nExperience is assessed at the 'interview' stage, along with the potential for a more in-depth assessment which should be discussed with the hiring manager.\nTechnical Skills\nThis role is aligned to the Software Developer Job Role within the Software Engineering / Development Job Family\nAvailability and Capacity Management - Practitioner\nInformation Security - Practitioner\nProgramming and Build (Software Engineering - Management) - Practitioner\nService Support - Practitioner\nSystems Design - Practitioner\nSystems Integration (Management) - Practitioner\nModern Development Standards - Expert\nYou can find out more about the skills required, here: Software developer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework\nThese skills may be assessed by technical assessment, this should be discussed with the hiring manager.\nWorking pattern\nThis role is a permanent level transfer position.\nOur standard hours are 35 hours per weekand we offer a range of flexible working options depending on the needs of the role, including Flexi-leave. Scottish Government staff in hybrid-compatible roles should aim to work in-person 40% of the time, either in an office or other agreed work location. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.\nHow to Apply\nApplications for this position will only be accepted from substantive C2 grade employees.\nPlease submit a CV and a statement outlining your suitability for the role, relevant skills and experience, and what you would bring to the team (maximum 500 words).\nVacancies close at 23:59pm on Friday 13 November.\nIf you have questions about your application, please contact Alistair Hann at \nSelection Process\nAll applicants will be invited to an informal discussion with the hiring manager. There will be no formal testing or assessment.\nDiscussions are expected to be scheduled for w/c TBC.\nRecruitment Principles\nAs a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaintsreceived in relation to recruitment cases.\nGovernment, Digital and Data Profession\nThe Government Digital and Data (GDD) Profession is a UK-wide group of over 24,000 civil servants dedicated to driving digital transformation in government through more efficient, data-driven public services. 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