Application closing date: Monday, 16 November 2026 • 11:59pm, Canberra time

Estimated start date: Monday, 11 January 2027

Location of work: VIC

Working arrangements: Full-time onsite for the first 2 weeks. A hybrid WFH arrangement, usually a minimum of 2 days per week onsite, will be considered from the location of their capital city.

Length of contract: 12 months

Contract extensions: Up to a maximum of 24 months

Security clearance: Must have an active Negative Vetting 1 clearance

Rates: $100 - $130 per hour (inc. super)
Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery. It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives.

The Java Developer will have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

Java Developers will work with the Senior Capacity Manager(s), Capacity Planning Services team and Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project delivery stakeholders to analyse, design, build, test and support COMPASS CMIS enhancements required for the CPU Right-Sizing and related capacity management automation outcomes.

The role will provide specialist development capability to extend the COMPASS application, data collectors, database interfaces, database design, dashboards and reporting capability so that utilisation data can be collected,aggregated,



analysed and presented for operational decision-making.

Key duties and responsibilities:

- Develop, enhance and maintain COMPASS Java application components, including collectors, APIs, processing logic and interfaces required to support capacity data ingestion and analysis.
- Implement and test capacity data collection methods across priority platforms, including integration of data feeds from monitoring tools, configuration repositories and platform data sources.
- Support the design and build of data aggregation, transformation and storage patterns within COMPASS and PostgreSQL database to enable reliable reporting and forecasting.
- Contribute to Grafana dashboard and report development by preparing data structures, queries, extracts and supporting application functions required for right-sizing analysis.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, task cards, implementation notes and knowledge transfer material to support APS capability uplift and ongoing COMPASS sustainment.
- Assist with defect investigation, root cause analysis, remediation and release support across development, pre-production and production environments.
- Support the Service Management & Self-Healing Automation Project outcomes by enabling CPU Right-Sizing, automated capacity reporting, improved data quality,



platform coverage expansion and operational self-service reporting.

Qualifications and Experience required:

- Knowledge of technology domain frameworks, legislation, policies and procedures
- Understanding of relevant business systems and tools
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Professional presentation skills

Technical skills required:

- Experience integrating monitoring, capacity or observability data from tools such as Grafana,Elastic, Prometheus, VMware Aria, Dynatrace or equivalent data repositories.
- Ability to develop and support automation scripts, data collectors, scheduled jobs and repeatable deployment or operational processes.
- Ability to work with capacity planners, platform teams, database administrators, Linux engineers, project delivery teams and business stakeholders to confirm requirements and validate outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to document technical designs, support arrangements, implementation steps and knowledge transfer material to enable sustainable handover.
- Strong Java development experience, including application support, API integration, data processing and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, SQL query development, data modelling, materialised views, indexing, performance tuning and data quality controls.
- Practical knowledge of Linux, Windows Server, Tomcat, JDK/JRE, Maven, Git/GitLab and deployment practices across development, test and production environments.

Essential criteria

1. Emerging technology monitoring Level 5 (SFIA): Monitors the external setting to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesse

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