Product Owner - Dundee, United Kingdom - Social Security Scotland

Social Security Scotland

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Dundee, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Overview:
**Product Owner | Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location | £ £ £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period | Full or Part Time Hours | Flexi
- time | 25 Days annual leave (increasing t**
o 30 after 4 years' service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege| Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions %)

Join our Chief Digital Office division as a Product Owner and support the exciting and transformative work of Social Security Scotland.

Help us deliver an ambitious digital programme to transfer welfare powers to the Scottish Government and make Scotland a leader in the digital world.

As a Product Owner in our Engineering and Cloud team, you'll be responsible for developing and delivering cloud and hosting services, along with their supporting technologies and processes.

We offer a great opportunity to enhance your skills and advance your career in a relaxed work environment.

Social Security Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, is the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution.

With a lifetime budget of over £300m, delivering a social security system that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come.

Our Engineering and Cloud team, located within the Chief Digital Office, delivers the infrastructure, capability, and digital solutions for Social Security Scotland. With a diverse range of expertise, the team maintains and delivers a hosting platform that meets the needs of the organisation and more importantly, our users.

What do we offer you?

We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy worklife balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops, and retains only the best talent.

Salary between £52,355 £65,276 plus a £5000 annual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period. This supplement is backdated and paid with your monthly salary
Flexible working arrangements with potential of up to 4 days off per month, in addition to your annual leave.
You will have an annual leave allowance of 25 days, rising to 30 after 4 years plus an additional 111⁄2 days public and privilege holidays
Workplace adjustments for everyone that needs them to ensure your comfort and safety in your new role
Learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth

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areer progression - join a rapidly growing and developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement

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ontributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions %).

Health and wellbeing support including 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all
Discounts and savings in a number of high street and online outlets

DDaT

Pay Supplement

Flexible and Hybrid Working

Our current way of working is by a hybrid working approach, where colleagues will be expected to use a mix of office based and remote working (working from home) depending on the requirements of the role. Base office location can be in either Dundee or Glasgow.

About Us

Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.

Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.

Find out more about us here

Responsibilities:

As a Product Owner you'll play a key role in identifying and prioritising work to improve our systems, so attention to detail and excellent communication skills are a must.

Lead multiple crossfunctional teams/scrum masters, using agile methodologies, to organize, prioritise and assess work, managing the full product life cycle ensuring value delivered
Develop and own the vision for assigned product or products, ensuring that vision is aligned to the Agency's strategic objectives and core values and supported by key stakeholders
Use the vision to drive prioritisation of development opportunities which a multidisciplinary delivery team will use to iterate the current services to meet the needs of users
Establish, define and present a coherent representation of both internal and external user priorities within the delivery team and ensure this is used to drive all decision making
Interpret user research in order to make the correct product decisions ensuring they reflect user needs
Develop and own the product roadmap and ensure that it is effectively communicated to stakeholders and interested parties via appropriate comms channels and governance
Ensure that all work undertaken and solutions delivered meet the Digital First Service Standards
Understand the relationship between their specific products and the wider systems and processes that comprise the S