Job Description
Are you a senior Drupal specialist who enjoys solving complex problems, leading technical direction and helping teams deliver great digital solutions?
Salsa Digital is looking for a Technical Lead to join our team on a full time basis and play a key role in designing and delivering enterprise digital solutions that help governments become more open, connected and consolidated.
This is a hands‐on technical leadership role.
You'll work across discovery, solution design and project delivery, providing technical authority while supporting and mentoring developers and helping clients make the right technology decisions.
You'll be involved in things like:
Leading technical discovery and solution design
Developing technical blueprints and assessing technical risks
Working directly with clients on technical direction and solutions
Leading and supporting development teams
Conducting code reviews and driving technical excellence
Mentoring developers and improving engineering practices
Exploring automation, AI-assisted development and reusable patterns
Contributing to the Drupal and broader open-source community
Sharing your knowledge through meetups, conferences, webinars and technical content
What we're looking for
You'll need:




8–10+ years' experience delivering enterprise digital solutions using Drupal
2–5+ years' experience in technical leadership of enterprise digital solutions
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
To be based in Australia and an Australian Citizen
Experience with GovCMS, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, containerised environments, DevOps, infrastructure automation or AI-enabled development tools would be highly regarded.
Why Salsa?
We're a team of around 55 people with a 20-year legacy in open source, working on some genuinely interesting challenges in the government digital space.
You'll get:
Work from home
Flexible working hours
A diverse, passionate and genuinely good team
A flat, transparent and innovative culture
The opportunity to work with a team that is responsible about open source
And importantly, you'll have the opportunity to shape technical solutions, influence how we work and contribute to the wider open-source community.
If you're an experienced Drupal technical leader looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
Reach out to Angela Rako ****** you have questions or would like a copy of the full position description.

📌 Technical Lead (New South Wales)
🏢 Salsa Digital
📍 New South Wales