One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Principal Java/Bespoke Software Engineer - EL2

Please check below all the job details:

1. Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Canberra
3. Work Arrangement: Initial 02 Weeks full time onsite, then after hybrid available on approval
4. Require: Willingness to be 24x7 on call.
5. Eligibility: You must need to have Baseline Security Clearance or above.
6. Tentative Start Date: 1st Sep 2026
7. Working Hours: 8 hours a day/ 40 hours a week

Your responsibilities will include:

- Develop enterprise-grade software using Java and Oracle technologies.
- Develop / maintain web-based UI using ReactJS, CSS and HTML.
- Design data models, translate to physical data models and implement using Oracle Database.
- Implement CRUD operations on the database using Java Object-Relational Mapping frameworks.
- Produce and maintain detailed design artefacts & technical specifications.
- Create and work with RESTful OpenAPI specifications, SOAP WSDLs, XML Schemas.
- Develop and maintain DevOps workflows using Jenkins, Git and Maven & Ant.
- Perform and build Nexus software releases following established processes.
- Providing advice and support for Applications Director & CIO.
- Provision of on-call services as part of a team roster (calls are rare one per year).

Key duties and responsibilities:

Essential Skills Required:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- At least 8 years Java experience, enterprise design patterns, JPA, Hibernate ORM, JEE an advantage, reactive programming an advantage.
- Java Web service development, SOAP and REST APIs, OpenAPI/XSD Schemas, XML/JSON,



Spring/SpringBoot.
- Unix/Linux, Bash.
- Maven lifecycle management, Continuous Integration, Unit and System Integration testing.
- Major database experience, including data modelling, stored procedures. Oracle preferred.
- Willingness to be 24x7 on call. Historically calls escalated to the dev team between 10pm and 6am are rare one per year.
- AWS development (EC2, Lambdas, API Gateway, S3/SQS, Cloud Formation).

Technical skills:

Qualifications and Experience:

- Solid commitment to software engineering processes and a proven ability to develop robust and maintainable software.
- A proven ability to document technical processes.
- Implement and maintain automated testing. Provide feedback on implementation and design aspects as required from other areas.
- Assist in the continuous improvement process by developing and enhancing procedures and produce documentation, including detailed design documentation, in accordance.

Essential Criteria:

- Programming/software development: Level 6 (SFIA)

Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction and refactoring. Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects. Adapts or develops new methods and organisational capabilities and drives adoption of, and adherence to policies and standards. The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to [email protected]

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates

📌 Principal Java/Bespoke Software Engineer (Australia)
🏢 IT Alliance Australia
📍 Australia