Senior Software Engineer (Managed Services)

Technical Requirements

• 5 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated progression in technical complexity and scope
• Strong foundation in software architecture system design and engineering best practices
• Experience with modern tech stacks relevant to government systems (e.g. Java Salesforce Kotlin cloud platforms like GCC/AWS)
• Proven ability to work with both greenfield development and brownfield modernisation projects
• Understanding of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code and observability

Strategic & Leadership Capabilities

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining alignment with broader organisational goals
• Track record of making pragmatic technical decisions that consider business constraints timelines and long-term sustainability
• Experience contributing to technical strategy beyond immediate project boundaries establishing standards creating reusable components or building shared infrastructure
• Ability to articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Evidence of knowledge sharing through documentation mentorship or establishing practices that enable other teams

Problem-Solving & Execution

• Strong analytical skills with evidence-based problem-solving approach backed by testing and validation
• Ability to identify root causes beyond surface-level symptoms (e.g. database indexing issues masked as front-end performance problems)
• Proactive in identifying technical dependencies risks and constraints early in project lifecycles
• Comfortable working within government constraints (security requirements compliance needs data sovereignty) while finding pragmatic solutions

Desired Experience (Nice-to-Have)

• Government or highly regulated industry experience with understanding of compliance security and governance requirements
• Experience with platform migrations or modernisation initiatives (legacy system upgrades cloud migrations technology stack changes)
• Background in establishing technical standards or creating reusable frameworks used across multiple projects or teams
• Familiarity with grant management social services systems or ministry family domain knowledge