Senior Software Developer

Software Developer (Typescript or any JavaScript, CSS, & HTML)

Needed an Australian Citizen who can obtain a Baseline Security Clearance

Job details

Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and providing technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Developing complex software applications using JavaScript technologies that meet business needs (user stories linked to business outcomes), design specifications, industry standards, agreed service levels, departmental policies, procedures and corporate objectives such as enterprise architecture artefacts;
• Providing technical advice and support to the technical lead, product owner, co-design representatives, business analysts, solution architects, testers and other various stakeholders;
• Reviewing solution designs and providing feedback;
• Developing, maintaining and enabling automated performance of unit testing for system components;
• Development and maintenance of Azure DevOps Pipelines to manage automated deployments, security scanning and quality assurance;
• Complying with departmental methodologies (e.g. project, service, release and change management) to maintain, support and review/upgrade existing capabilities;
• Providing delivery managers, the product owner and the multi-disciplinary team with status updates and development effort estimates for changes during and outside of Agile ceremonies;
• Security vulnerability remediation, library and package updates, including dependency management, in accordance with departmental processes;
• Leading and participating in code review practices with peer developers;
• Participating in technical verification testing (TVT) post PROD deployments;
• Troubleshooting production system incidents, problems and defects.

Specified Personnel will be expected to transfer skills and knowledge to departmental staff, commit to the conscientious development of technical documentation and ensure documentation is stored in accordance with the Department's recordkeeping policy and practices.

Specified personnel will be required to actively participate and thus contribute to all Agile Ceremonies subject to the project's adopted "contemporary ways of working" model.

The Specified Personnel will be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Producing working software that is demonstrated to the Product owner meeting the multi-disciplinary team's (MDT's) Definition of Done;
• Contribution to Functional & Non-functional specifications.

All deliverables performed by the specified personnel must:

• be performed or delivered promptly and without delay in accordance with the timeframes notified by the buyer from time to time; and
• meet the assessment and performance criteria set out in any monitoring and performance assessment processes notified to the seller from time to time.

Essential criteria

1. Programming/Software Development Level 5 - Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

2. Methods and Tools Level 5 - Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

3. Software Design Level 4 - Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.

4. Systems Design Level 5 - Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.

5. Systems Integration and Build Level 5 - Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.

Desirable criteria

1. Minimum 5+ years' experience working with JavaScript technologies.

2. Minimum 1+ years' experience working with Applications hosted in AWS Cloud environments.

3. Demonstrated experience with:
   
   o React;
   
   o CSS, Less CSS & HTML;
   
   o Typescript or any JavaScript MVC frameworks;
   
   o Web Services (SOAP and RESTful);
   
   o Source code management using Git with Azure DevOps;
   
   o Azure Pipelines and related Azure technologies;
   
   o Designing, developing, supporting and maintaining capabilities in large complex ICT environments.

4. Demonstrated ability to contribute design advice using both technical expertise and excellent communication skills.

Job Type: Contract

Contract length: 30 months

Pay: $125.00 – $135.00 per hour