Senior Software Developer (PROJ-4328)

The role will involve having or the ability to gain knowledge of Services Australia’s software development lifecycle, tools, services, deployment procedures and cyber security policies as well as industry best practices. You will work closely with Software Architects, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Analysts and Testers with the shared purpose of building simple, helpful, respectful and transparent services for everyday Australians.

Technical skills:

• Extensive experience in Java and Node Development

Responsibilities include:

• lead and create software and technical designs for the realisation of highly complex development solutions.
• develop strategy to ensure high quality code and long- term maintenance of a product's code base.
• provide specialist technical advice on software development and maintenance.
• lead the release and ensure go-live production support and maintenance for the team’s developments.
• lead analysis, design, software development, prototyping, unit testing and maintenance activities.
• review and undertake high-level analysis of technical requirements to support project evaluation with proposed solutions.
• ensure compliance with endorsed software development methodologies.
• investigate and resolve highly complex ICT issues.
• lead a positive risk management culture.
• engage and manage stakeholder relationships and partner with other agencies and service providers to build service delivery capability.
• contribute to business and strategic workforce planning, and drive the development of local strategies to improve key performance measures.
• manage business objectives and implement strategic priorities to achieve outcomes.
• lead the development and delivery of projects within the assigned area of responsibility.

Candidates will be expected to have the ability to:

• think strategically and align operational activity accordingly.
• lead and motivate team members to achieve quality outcomes.
• develop and maintain a range of internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• resolve conflict using appropriate strategies.
• understand the audience and context, and effectively tailor communication and communication styles.
• develop long term plans for technical directions and manage work in the context of business priorities.
• undertake objective, systematic analysis and draw accurate conclusions based on evidence.
• make decisions based on professional judgement, risk evaluation and in the context of the environment.
• work highly independently under broad direction and act collaboratively.
• manage competing priorities to achieve quality outcomes and project completion.
• lead change initiatives and support staff through uncertainty and the change process.
• assess risks and develop and implement mitigation strategies.
• mentor and guide staff learning and development.

Essential criteria:

• Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA). Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA). Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.
• Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA).Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
• Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA). Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.
• Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA). Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.
• Software design: Level 4 (SFIA). Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.
• Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA). Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
• Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA). Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
• Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA). Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.
• Testing: Level 4 (SFIA). Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

Desirable criteria:

• Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA). Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.

Additional information:

• Preference is for the successful candidate to work from Canberra. However candidates who are willing to work from the capital cities of NSW, QLD, SA & VIC are encouraged to respond.
• The candidate is to work on a full-time basis for the first 6 weeks. Work-from-home arrangements may be considered on a case-by-case basis however it is a standard requirement to work from the RFQ location for a minimum of 3 days a week.