- Employment Type: Full-time (35 hours per week)
- Duration: Fixed-term contract (2 years) until 30th June 2028
- Remuneration: $132,445 - $149,228 + 17% super + leave loading
- Location: UNSW Kensington Campus
- Hybrid Work Arrangements: Must be available to come to the office 2-3 times a week

This Job is based in Australia

- Employment Type: Full-time (35 hours per week)
- Duration: Fixed-term contract (2 years) until 30th June 2028
- Remuneration: $132,445 - $149,228 + 17% super + leave loading
- Location: UNSW Kensington Campus
- Hybrid Work Arrangements: Must be available to come to the office 2-3 times a week

About UNSW

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community, a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

Why Your Role Matters

As an LMS Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how learning is delivered and experienced across the University. Sitting at the intersection of technology and education, you will design, build, and enhance learning platforms that enable seamless, engaging, and scalable digital learning experiences for staff and students. In this role, your expertise will ensure that LMS solutions are not only technically robust but also aligned to the evolving needs of the University. By leveraging both out-of-the-box capabilities and developing tailored solutions across cloud and on-premise environments, you’ll help deliver flexible,



integrated systems that connect with a broader technology ecosystem and support innovation in teaching and learning. Working closely with developers and stakeholders, you’ll guide best‑practice solution development using agile and iterative methodologies, driving continuous improvement and high‑quality outcomes. Your ability to bridge technical and functional domains will ensure that platforms are reliable, secure, and fit‑for‑purpose. Ultimately, your work will directly contribute to enhancing UNSW’s digital learning environment—ensuring that systems are productive, scalable, and capable of supporting world‑class education now and into the future.

Purpose Of The Role

Deliver the technical build, configuration, and integration work required to stand up UNSW’s new Learning Management System (LMS) and support the platform and ecosystem commitments through to go‑live, noting the new LMS application has not yet been announced.

Key Responsibilities

- Platform configuration and build
- Configure LMS toolsets, features, org structure (faculties, courses, communities), home pages, widgets, and dashboards in line with UNSW requirements.
- Support role and permissions configuration (scoped roles at system, faculty, course, and assessment level)
- Configure institutional branding, course templates, and blueprint courses
- Integrations




- Assist with the development of integrations between LMS and UNSW systems of record (PeopleSoft/SIS, Entra ID/SSO, Turnitin, Inspera, Leganto, STACK, and other LTI tools) using the LMS vendor Standard CSV, APIs, and LTI Advantage standards
- Work with the integration
- Support SSO/identity configuration work delivered through the LMS vendor Professional Services during implementation
- Data, reporting and analytics
- Assist with support Data Hub exports, Insights Dashboards, and course‑level dashboards for institutional reporting
- Coordinate with the Data Engineer roles on data flows into UNSW's reporting/BI environment
- Testing and quality
- Support configuration testing against acceptance criteria developed with UNSW stakeholders
- Work with the Test teams on test planning and defect resolution
- Migration support
- Support course conversion/migration activity from the incumbent LMS, working with the current LMS’ bulk migration tooling and UNSW's export packages
- Work with learning designers to remediate migration issues
- Business case and program delivery support
- Support stage-gate and governance reporting to the LMS Steering Committee, ITPMO, and Student Systems Reference Group as required

For more information regarding the responsibilities for this role, please refer to the Position Description at JOBS@UNSW.

Skills And Experience Summary

- Relevant degree or equivalent experience, with robust expertise across multiple technology domains (e.g. web applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure, databases, security).
- Demonstrated ability to analyse, design, and implement complex technical solutions, appl

📌 LMS Platform Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 UNSW
📍 Sydney