Adoption Software Engineer XDP

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.

Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.

Cross functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

Collaboration with peers, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.

Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organisation's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.

Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

For People Leaders: demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are:

• Listen and be authentic
• Energise and inspire
• Align across the enterprise
• Develop others

For an individual contributor: lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, including cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues, identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work performed.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicating complex information and influencing or convincing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Experience with Permissions and Profiles using policy as code to define a set of permission roles, and other security model paradigms such as ReBAC, ABAC, and RBAC.
• Experience with Java, BDD testing concepts and Public Cloud (AWS).
• Understanding of authorisation and authentication technologies such as Policy as Code, IAM.
• Experience with Ping solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS).

Some other highly desirable skills include:

• Willingness to constructively disrupt and challenge the norm.
• Relationship building skills, patience and resilience to change current thinking and working practices.
• Ability to translate technical concepts and solutions to both non technical and technical teams without losing the detail.

This role will be based out of our Glasgow or Knutsford office.