Principal Software Engineer | Federal Government

About the Opportunity

- Long-Term Impact: Partner with a premier Federal Government department to drive high-impact, strategic software construction and systems design initiatives.

- Stability & Flexibility: Secure an initial 12-month contract with attractive potential extension options, offering excellent long-term career continuity.

- Technical Leadership: Step into an elite Level 6 capacity where you will champion engineering excellence, influence organisational policies, and mentor high-performing teams.

Role & Responsibilities

- Strategic Engineering: Plan, lead, and drive software construction and systems design activities for large, complex, and strategic enterprise development projects.

- Technology Roadmapping: Monitor the external setting for emerging technologies, assess organisational impacts, and create future-focused technology roadmaps.

- Capability & Governance: Develop and implement organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration, software refactoring, and tool adoption.

- Release & Integration Management: Lead systems integration, automation, and continuous integration (CI/CD)



capabilities while ensuring robust post-release reviews and rollback safety.

- Knowledge Transfer: Facilitate requirement-gathering workshops and proactively transfer specialist technical skills and knowledge to departmental staff.

Skills & Experience

To be successful in this position, you will ideally bring:

- Technical Toolkit: Advanced capabilities in systems design life cycle models, configuration management tools, systems integration, CI/CD automation pipelines, and emerging technology evaluation.

- Experience: Proven track record leading software construction for strategic-level, complex programmes within large enterprise or government environments.

- Core Capabilities: * Expert ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities and tight deadlines.

- Strong stakeholder engagement skills to influence senior leadership and gain organisational commitment for technical roadmaps.

- Authoritative advice and guidelines delivery regarding security, privacy, and technical quality targets.

Clearance Requirements

- Security Clearance: Must possess a current Negative Vetting Level 2 (NV2) security clearance.

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Developer) (Canberra)
🏢 Aurec
📍 Canberra