- Location: Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
- Position Type: Ongoing
- Salary: $121,756 - $146,676

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for defining and shaping the development and improvement of software development processes, standards and tools for the ACIC. Responsibilities vary across projects and involve the application of robust leadership and management skills to ensure employees are productive and supported in the drive for quality outcomes. This includes the ACIC’s software development and implementation projects and Business-as-Usual activities, as well as sustainment of the ACIC’s broader service delivery objectives.

Role Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

- Provide strategic leadership and direction, inspiring and guiding a multi-disciplinary team to achieve organisational objectives.
- Plan, prioritise and coordinate competing activities to ensure deadlines and business priorities are effectively managed.
- Communicate persuasively and engage effectively with stakeholders to build and maintain productive internal and external working relationships.
- Apply critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving skills to identify, evaluate and implement solutions to complex business problems
- Contribute to the development of high-quality briefings, papers, submissions and correspondence for internal and external decision-making forums.
- Use strategic thinking and evidence-based decision-making to drive improvements in software quality, development productivity,



and maintainability through effective tools and processes.
- Provide cross-team leadership and support to enable the successful delivery, deployment, operation, and maintenance of software services through the coordination and continuous improvement of shared platforms, environments, deployment pipelines, tooling, processes, and dependencies.

Your Skills and Capabilities

We invite applications from people with the following experience, skills and attributes:

- Demonstrated ability to lead or coordinate end to end delivery and sustainment activities, including incident and problem resolution, defect remediation, testing, change control and production release.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting and developing software systems, in particular in environments based on Java, JEE frameworks, Containerisation (Kubernetes), Oracle, Unix, Windows, HTML5, CSS, Typescript, Javascript, Tomcat, Node, React and Spring Boot framework.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting or integrating software products from third party vendors, including modified and bespoke applications, commercial or government off-the-shelf.
- Well-developed management, stakeholder engagement, documentation and prioritisation skills,



with the judgement to balance delivery, risk, compliance and system reliability in a complex ICT setting.
- Tertiary ICT qualifications or equivalent/demonstrated experience are highly regarded.

Eligibility Requirements

- Citizenship – To be eligible for employment with the ACIC, applicants must be an Australian citizen.
- Security Clearance - The Australian community expects ACIC employees to maintain the highest levels of security and integrity. Successful applicants will be required to obtain and maintain a minimum Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance.
- Pre-Employment Screening – All candidates must satisfy an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to being offered employment at the ACIC. Please refer to the ACIC’s Character Standards for further information.

The ACIC is committed to diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and champion diversity to ensure we reflect the community we serve, and pride ourselves on our vibrant culture. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, neurodiverse, mature aged employees and carers.

More information about our conditions is available in the ACIC Enterprise Agreement 2024-2027 on our website.

Candidate Information Kit - EL1 Senior Software Engineer, Various Locations

Candidate Information Kit - EL1 Senior Software Engineer, Various Locations

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Various Locations (Sydney)
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