Scottish Government

Social Security Scotland is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to help secure the cloud platforms that deliver vital public services. This is a key role in a cloud first organisation, working to ensure solutions are secure by design, resilient, and compliant. The Senior Cyber Security Engineer leads the design, implementation, and assurance of cyber security controls across cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure. You will translate security policy and risk into practical cloud security solutions, working closely with Architecture, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams. Acting as a technical authority, you will provide hands on expertise, assurance, and risk based guidance, embedding security throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Social Security Scotland is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to help secure the cloud platforms that deliver vital public services. This is a key role in a cloud first organisation, working to ensure solutions are secure by design, resilient, and compliant. The Senior Cyber Security Engineer leads the design, implementation, and assurance of cyber security controls across cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure. You will translate security policy and risk into practical cloud security solutions, working closely with Architecture, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams. Acting as a technical authority, you will provide hands on expertise, assurance, and risk based guidance, embedding security throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Social Security Scotland currently has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Digital Portfolio Manager who will provide leadership to the Strategic Portfolio Management team and ensure investment delivers the best possible outcomes for the people of Scotland. In this pivotal role, you will set strategic direction for portfolio governance, provide senior leaders with clear, forward looking insight to support confident decision making, and lead a team of circa 15 portfolio specialists to manage risk, align priorities and enable effective delivery at scale across the organisation. This is a Fixed Term Appointment opportunity for 47 months with the possibility of permanency dependent on business requirements.

The Scottish Government is seeking an experienced Senior Digital Portfolio Manager to lead the Strategic Portfolio Management team in Dundee, Scotland. This pivotal role involves setting strategic direction for portfolio governance and providing senior leaders with insights for confident decision-making. You will lead a team of approximately 15 portfolio specialists to ensure effective delivery and alignment of priorities. This is a Fixed Term Appointment for 47 months with the possibility of permanency based on business requirements.

The Scottish Government is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to spearhead cloud transformation within the Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate. This role requires expertise in AWS and the ability to collaborate with various engineering teams to ensure robust and scalable digital services. The Lead Cloud Engineer will drive innovation and operational reliability to support sustainable growth in Scotland's agriculture and rural sectors.

Job description Are you ready to lead cloud transformation at scale in a team as passionate about public service and technical excellence as you are? Join us as a Lead Cloud Engineer and drive technical excellence, innovation and operational reliability across our AWS estate. The Agriculture and Rural Economy (ARE) Directorate is on a mission to work collaboratively with stakeholders to enable vibrant and thriving communities and businesses that protect and enhance Scotland's natural environment. Digital services are central to ARE's commitment to supporting sustainable economic growth in agriculture, the food industry, and rural areas. The ARE Digital and Data (AD&D) Division provides the technical capability and capacity to ensure these digital services are reliable, secure and future ready. As Lead Cloud Engineer, you will set the vision and direction for cloud engineering on our AWS estate, ensuring our platforms are robust, scalable and future ready. You will work closely with the Product Owner along with the Platform, Software, Data and Site Reliability engineering teams as well as the Cyber Security team to deliver key digital outcomes.

Job description This opportunity is only open to applicants who are currently 'Priority Movers'. Applications from individuals not currently on the Priority Mover list will be rejected and not considered. We have an opportunity for a C3/Programme Delivery Manager to join the Head of Glow Programme Delivery on a temporary basis for up to 23 months to support delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams or have high technical or political risk. This is an ideal development opportunity for someone looking to broaden their experience in work underway between Scottish Government, Education Scotland, and key stakeholders on the shape of future service provision beyond 2028. The Future of Glow programme has been established to take this forward. Education Scotland manages the delivery of the Glow service on behalf of Scottish Government at a cost of approximately £6m per annum. Glow provides tools to support digital learning and teaching for learners and teachers across Scotland with approximately 350K unique users each month. Contracts are in place until 2028 and the service must continue until then, offering an appropriate service for its intended users. A programme delivery manager is accountable for the delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams or have high technical or political risk.

The Scottish Government is seeking a C3 Programme Delivery Manager for a temporary role lasting up to 23 months. This is an exceptional opportunity for professionals aiming to expand their expertise in complex service delivery across educational sectors. The role involves managing high-risk products and services that require coordination between multiple teams. You will support the Glow programme, which facilitates digital learning for a wide demographic across Scotland. Ideal for those wanting to make impactful contributions while navigating significant challenges.

Want to play a key role in protecting a digital platform used by over one million learners across Scotland? This is an exciting role within Education Scotland where you will be instrumental in helping to drive forward the implementation of an ambitious Information and Cyber Security programme. Working with the Lead Cyber Security Officer, the Technical Delivery Team and Digital Services, amongst others, you will help ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate digital systems, including Glow, the national Digital Learning platform for schools which has over one million provisioned users. You will also help to support the design and implementation of cyber security controls and measures for transformative projects within Education Scotland. This is a high impact role which offers the successful candidate the opportunity of making a strong and significant impact to the benefit hundreds of thousands of learners and teachers across Scotland. Government Digital and Data (GDD) Pay Supplement This post attracts a £4,000 GDD pay supplement after a 3 months 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. This post is part of the Scottish Government GDD profession. This role is aligned to Cyber Security Risk Manager GDDrole. You can find out more about the technical skills required for this role on the UK Government security profession career framework.

The Scottish Government is seeking a Cyber Security professional to enhance security measures for the national Digital Learning platform, Glow. This role is critical in supporting Education Scotland's cyber security initiatives and offers a £4,000 GDD pay supplement after a qualifying period. The successful candidate will work closely with various teams to ensure the security of digital systems that benefit over one million learners across Scotland.

Locations Galashiels, United Kingdom (Hybrid) Working Pattern Full Time Number of Openings 1 Apply Before 05/12/2026, 10:59 PM The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. Our principal role is to administer the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers', Police and Fire-fighters' pension schemes in Scotland. The Delivery Manager will have responsibility and accountability for delivery of legislative events and business transformational changes in the SPPA and be the point of decision making before escalating into the Business Transformation Senior Leadership Team. This role will have specific responsibility for delivery of legislative remedy projects, operating under fixed deadlines, retrospective data correction, and heightened assurance, audit and stakeholder scrutiny. Responsibilities Plan and manage delivery of SPPA transformational projects or annual event activity Foster a culture of experimentation and resilience in our existing services supplied by our pension administration system provider taking account of digital enhancements and capabilities and ensuring that effective project management and controls are maintained. Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. Ensure delivery assurance, governance and audit readiness - Own delivery assurance activities, RAID management, MI reporting and audit readiness to provide confidence to senior stakeholders. Maintain delivery momentum and flow - Manage pace, prioritisation, dependencies, exceptions and rework cycles, addressing blockers and risks proactively. Build and enable high performing teams - Form, motivate and empower teams; develop technical and non technical capability; and create environments that support collaboration and effective delivery. Drive continuous improvement and adaptive delivery - Apply Agile, Lean and hybrid approaches pragmatically; challenge inefficient processes; embed learning; and guide teams through process and lifecycle transitions. Qualifications You should have a recognised project management qualification. Working pattern This role is a permanent level transfer position.

The Scottish Government is seeking a Delivery Manager in Galashiels to oversee legislative projects and business transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for project planning, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring governance and audit readiness. Candidates should possess a recognized project management qualification. This hybrid role promises a dynamic work environment where effective collaboration and continuous improvement are emphasized.

Expressions of interest are invited from substantive colleagues on level transfer to apply for this post. The technologies and services delivered and supported by Corporate Operations are critical to the effective running and management of the Scottish Government, and the many bodies who share these services. We will deliver, support and embed many technology and support services that will help make the Scottish Government one of the most effective and efficient organisations in their peer group, globally. This role sits within the Technology group of the DDaT profession at SCS1, with the postholder responsible for leading operational delivery of technology infrastructure, platforms and services for Scottish Government and shared services customers in the central government sector across Scotland. The post holder will lead a team of 100+ DDaT professionals within the functional areas of SCOTS Architecture Management, Identity and SCOTS Access, Back Office Network Management and Corp / Back Office Cloud Platforms. As a leader within the Digital Officer Role Group within the Scottish Government's Digital, Data and Technology profession, the post holder will ensure that we run, optimise and transform our networks / infrastructure, desktop and mobile capabilities on an ongoing basis.

The Scottish Government is seeking a leader for its Technology group who will be responsible for the operational delivery of technology infrastructure, platforms, and services. This role involves managing a team of over 100 DDaT professionals, ensuring the transformation and optimization of networks and IT capabilities. This position is vital for the effective management of Scottish Government services, contributing to its efficiency as a leading organization within its peer group.