Application and Platforms Lead

**Date**:13 May 2025

**Location**: Osborne Park, WA, AU, 6017

**Company**:Silver Chain Group Limited

**Application & Platforms Lead**
- Permanent full-time opportunity
- 76 hours per fortnight
- Hybrid supported working environment

**The opportunity**

Silverchain are seeking an experienced **Application & Platforms Lead** to join the Digital Services team on a permanent full-time basis.

**Key responsibilities**

The major accountabilities of this position are:

- Establish and implement best practices and methodologies related to development cycles, technical system design, and configuration.
- Manage career development plans for the team and embed continuous learning practices through coaching, training and cross-skilling.
- Work closely with the business stakeholders to define project resources and to provide estimates of work effort based on business requirements and technical design.
- Manage and develop ongoing communications with vendors to ensure understanding of future direction, new technologies, and identification of new opportunities.
- Liaise directly with key operational and business leaders to identify potential solution options, enhancements and recommendations and automate and optimise processes where possible.
- Contribute to the development and management of the platform's roadmap, including future initiatives and enhancements.
- Maintain a development and configuration audit trail for all production releases and changes to ensure strict compliance and traceability.
- Lead audit and compliance from an IT perspective, including annual year-end assessments.
- Monitor and actively ensure the incidents, service requests and demands are resolved within the relevant timelines.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

- Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Possess a strong understanding of development cycles, technical system design, and configuration.
- Understanding business processes and the impact of business process change.
- Proactive, solutions-focused attitude with a demonstrated ability to work autonomously.
- Sound negotiating and influencing skills to guide stakeholders in their understanding of systems and their operation.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Ability to resolve issues quickly and effectively, utilising best practice methods where possible.
- Well-developed communication (written, verbal and listening) and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.
- Knowledge of, or ideally experience working in a DevOps environment is desirable.
- Knowledge of, or ideally a qualification in ITIL is desirable.

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary + Super + the ability to salary package up to **$18,550.**:

- Comprehensive health and wellbeing resources and support.
- Exclusive fitness and health insurance discounts.
- Option to purchase an extra 2 weeks leave per calendar year.
- Paid parental leave of 12 weeks.
- 17% Leave Loading.
- Subsidised gym membership with participating gym partners.

**How to apply**

**About Silverchain Group**

For 130 years, Silverchain has been a leading provider of high-quality health and aged care in the homes and across Australia. It is our ambition to create a better home care system for all Australians.

Join our team of more than 5,800 staff, including corporate staff, nurses, doctors, allied health, care experts and a dedicated research and innovation division, operating as Silverchain, RDNS Silverchain and KinCare. We care for more than 140,000 clients across Australia. We’ll provide you with opportunities to help you develop and grow in your career, with training and education programs to help you achieve your goals.

We reserve the right to commence the recruitment process and extend or withdraw this advertisement prior to the closing date.