Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects writing optimised code and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.
Requirements
Key duties and responsibilities
The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to:
- Undertaking technical analysis and design to achieve required business and legislative changes
- Providing development effort estimates on the scale of technical changes required
- Supporting Business Analysts by providing technical advice when necessary
- Developing and implementing efficient ICSE Code and Reference Data in a timely manner that effectively addresses the needs of business
- Maintaining and support systems in the Production environment including investigating production issues and production release support
- Producing technical documentation to support the changes implemented within the ICSE software application and peripherals such as XML
- Proactively identifying environmental issues and provide testing support
- Supporting and guide colleagues regarding software system advice and reviews
- Providing oncall and onsite release support
Specified Personnel will be expected to transfer skills and knowledge to departmental staff and ensure appropriate development practices are followed in accordance with the Department and team s established best practices.
The Specified Personnel will be responsible for producing the following deliverables including but not limited to:
- Maintenance of Software Codebases
- Deployment plans
- Status reports;
- Technical Specifications.
All deliverables performed by the specified personnel must:
a. be performed or delivered promptly and without delay in accordance with the timeframes notified by the buyer from time to time; and
b. meet the assessment and performance criteria set out in any monitoring and performance assessment processes notified to the seller from time to time.
Criteria
The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.
Essential criteria
1. Programming/software development level 5 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.
Desirable criteria
1. Previous experience working in Agile projects including experience in and/or exposure to JIRA and Kanban.
2. Experience and knowledge of the following tools: JIRA SQL Visio XMLConfuence ADO (or similar)
3. Previous experience working within an IT project environment (minimum three years)
4. Mainframe programming concepts and experience
Essential criteria 1. A track record of delivering technology products in large organisations 2. A demonstrated understanding of what makes for a great developer experience for external users 3. Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams that follow agile and user-centred design practices 4. Experience working on large Government transformation programs highly regarded Desirable criteria 1. Knowledge, experience of, and relationships with the agriculture technology industry 2. Delivery of technology to support regulatory decision-making processes 3. Experience delivering to the Australian Government Digital Service Standard
Employment Type
Full Time
