About the job

Job summary

Are you an experienced Senior Automation Developer looking for a new challenge?

 

Join our newly formed team in the Corporate Transformation Directorate and play a key part in delivering agile projects within a portfolio and working closely with other members of the team in the development and delivery of automation solutions.

 

The Senior Automation Developer role will be part of the newly formed Scottish Government Automation Centre of Excellence (CoE) team. The CoE and the corporate shared services programme is the initial focus of this role, but the focus will widen as the portfolio of corporate transformation expands.

 

Corporate Transformation is a new Directorate established to increase the Scottish Government’s capacity and capability to shape and deliver transformational corporate change, with impact across the wider public sector. The Directorate will bring structure and governance to the setting of priorities, and manage the delivery of many key projects and programmes.

 

As Senior Automation Developer, you will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing complex AI powered automated solutions using a range of hyper automation platforms including Blue Prism, UiPath & Microsoft in support of automation initiatives across Scottish Government and the wider public sector.

 

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders and end users throughout the project lifecycle, from the identification of automation opportunities, through to the design, development, testing and maintenance of automations, employing process optimisation techniques and the use of LEAN/agile methodologies where required. You will also be  responsible for the investigation and resolution of defects, Technical Debt and the management of Change Requests relating to Applications deployed within the IACoE’s production environment.

 

You will lead on the development of process patterns for automations that can be  reused across the public sector, and will utilise best practices to ensure automations meet business requirements and stated targets for efficiency.  You will also be responsible for ways of working, training and maintaining standards within the development team. You will peer review other people’s design and development thinking; making sure the most appropriate technology is selected and ensuring efficient use of resources.  This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a motivated, collaborative and supportive team, where you will have the opportunity to develop your technical skill-set, and help build the Scottish Government’s Intelligent Automation Centre of Excellence.

DDaT Pay Supplement

This post attracts a £5,000 per annum pro-rata DDaT Pay Supplement after a 3 month competency qualifying period. 

Job description

• Support the team to take a holistic approach to identify automation opportunities; employing process optimisation techniques and the use of LEAN/agile methodologies

where required

• Lead on the design, build, testing and deployment of automation process solution; including collecting and documenting requirements, defining process and technical solutions, prototyping, configuring digital components, and supporting stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them whilst balancing multiple priorities
• Oversight of the prioritisation, investigation and resolution of issues and change requests in the production environment
• Work with the technical architect to formulate long-term development strategy
• Define RPA development methodology and testing practices/standards, ensuring adherence to RPA/development/coding standards and naming conventions
• Stakeholder management and engagement, encouraging and facilitating continuous improvement
• Build, maintain and mature a motivated and collaborative agile team, and line manage other colleagues as required.

Person specification

1. Experience of developing Robotic Process Automations using Agile/Scrum and SDLC methodologies (ideally in UiPath or Blue Prism).
2. Experience of business process re-engineering/optimisation to recognise automation feasibility and design reusable/scalable solutions.
3. Experience of systems architecture and integration with RPA/AI powered automations to support production of effective, efficient solutions.
4. Experience coordinating and leading multiple development and testing teams.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,557, Scottish Government contributes £12,030 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

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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

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