Principal Applications Developer,

Get ready to join an outstanding organisation committed to our people and our culture through recognition, continuous learning and development, building resilience and encouraging innovation.

This is a permanent role with an outstanding career opportunity to support migration of MARS - the Management and Reporting System developed by QRA to support councils and state agencies with all funding applications administered by QRA - from its existing on-premise Dynamics 365 environment to a cloud-based Dynamics 365 platform.

QRA values equity and diversity and encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds.

About the Division

The Corporate Services Division provides a range of specialised performance enabling functions that supports QRA to meet its compliance obligations, operate efficiently and achieve its strategic priorities.

About the Role

• Manage, develop, enhance and maintain QRA's applications to meet the business and operational needs of both QRA and external stakeholders.
• Work with the team, manager and the senior leadership team in the delivery of applications development and services in a project management approach.
• Develop and deliver complex solutions that meet client business requirements, managing the development lifecycle process across scoping, build, test, release, and support.
• Lead and facilitate in the development and evaluation of plans and strategies as well as standards for programming tools and techniques that meet the long-term requirements for applications services in the agency.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of all required documentation, including design documents, quality plans, processes and procedures.
• Engage with clients to assist them in clarifying their specific business requirements and developing options for how these may be resolved through use of applications.
• Assist with the analysis of current-state Dynamics 365 on-premise instances to identify reengineering or redevelopment requirements for migration to a cloud environment.
• Redevelop Dynamics 365 workflows, and integrations to align with cloud architecture best practices.
• Rewrite and refactor existing .NET-based APIs to ensure compatibility with the Dynamics 365 cloud architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and security in the new environment.
• Assist with planning and executing the data migration from Dynamics 365 on-premise to the cloud, including data mapping, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation activities.
• Provide technical leadership on QRA applications projects and contribute to the development of innovative technical solutions through development of purpose-built applications.
• Ensure high quality standards and processes are met with regards to unit testing, peer review, technical documentation and adequate handover to ICT support teams.
• Provide regular updates to organisational and agency clients on the status of applications solution development, including advice on how any challenging issues with their brief may be resolved.
• Develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Actively participate as a member of the delivery teams including contributing at all agile ceremonies and team meetings as required.
• Identify and report issues and risks.
• Undertake tasks as required to support the regular delivery of new and changing functionality to the users as a member of a cross-functional team. This Includes but is not limited to training and training material.
• Provide specialist technical advice to team management on opportunities to improve, expand and integrate QRA's applications services within the organisation and across government.
• Undertake other duties of equivalent complexity as required.

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