Excellent Opportunity for Technical Project Lead Opportunity to work for a Victorian Government Client Work Arrangement: Hybrid Day Rates: $660 + Super Project The Department is progressing a defined program of Attendance Reform work to improve the collection, validation and use of school attendance data. Role The Technical Project Lead
- Attendance Data and Integration will coordinate the establishment of an automated API feed of detailed attendance data from school software providers into a secure Department-controlled data environment. Accountabilities
- Lead technical project coordination for the automated collection of detailed attendance data from school software providers into a secure Department-controlled environment.
- Define and coordinate technical requirements, delivery sequencing, supplier dependencies, testing and implementation activities for attendance APIs and related data interfaces.
- Identify data quality issues, gaps, assumptions and control requirements and coordinate resolution with data owners, suppliers and technical teams.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and actions across the attendance data and integration workstream.
- Prepare explicit progress reports, technical updates,



executive briefings and decision papers for project governance and senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate testing, implementation, cutover and transition activities and ensure agreed outcomes are demonstrably completed and handed over.
- Develop and maintain interface requirements, data mappings, validation rules, test artefacts, process documentation and implementation guidance.

What you'll need
to succeed
- Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating technical projects involving APIs, systems integration, data platforms, reporting or digital service delivery.
- Strong understanding of API integration, data exchange, data pipelines, secure data environments and end-to-end technical implementation.
- Demonstrated experience with data validation, reconciliation, quality controls, mapping and exception management across multiple source systems.
- Proven ability to coordinate suppliers and multidisciplinary technical teams across complex dependencies, testing and implementation activities.
- Strong capability in project planning, governance, risk and issue management, delivery reporting and executive stakeholder communication.

📌 Technical Project Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Victorian Government
📍 Melbourne