Principal .Net Software Engineer

7 days ago


n Capital Territory, Australia IT Alliance Australia Full time $104,000 - $130,878 per year

One of our Federal government clients seeking to engage a
Principal .NET Software Engineer
at
Canberra
location.

Role: Principal Software Engineer - (EL2 Level)

Location of work: Canberra

Length of contract: 09 months

Contract extensions: 24 months extension (two extensions of twelve months each)

Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1 (client intend to process Negative Vetting Level 2 security clearance after onboarding)

Key duties and responsibilities

  • Owning and communicating the technical strategy for supported products, from design through BAU support.
  • Ensuring scalability, maintainable systems through development and promoting adherence to patterns, governance processes and regular reviews.
  • Supporting the team in resolving technical blockers and being an escalation point for technical decisions.
  • Supporting and driving continuous development and continuous improvement principles within supported applications.
  • Drive standardisation of technical practices across the team to support the delivery of business outcomes.
  • Ensuring adherence to best practice and relevant Government and technical frameworks.
  • Working as a conduit between technical and business stakeholders.
  • Working as a conduit between the team and other digital or technical teams.
  • Mentoring of technical staff.
  • Developing and review of design, architectural and technical documentation.
  • Driving and contributing to a high performing collaborative team culture.
  • Other duties as requested.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and professional relationship management skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Relevant experience in software development (.Net and Angular).
  • Experience in supporting digital solutions across a wide range of technical and business stakeholders.
  • Experience developing guides, designs, architectural documents and other relevant artefacts.
  • Qualifications or experience in supporting agile software development teams is desirable.
  • Experience designing cloud native applications and/or migrating on-premises solutions to the cloud is desirable.

Technical skills

Relevant experience in software development (.Net and Angular). Experience in supporting digital solutions across a wide range of technical and business stakeholders. Experience developing guides, designs, architectural documents and other relevant artefacts. Qualifications or experience in supporting agile software development teams is desirable. Experience designing cloud native applications and/or migrating on-premises solutions to the cloud is desirable.

Essential criteria

  1. Strong stakeholder engagement and professional relationship management skills.

  2. Strong verbal and written communication skills.

  3. Relevant experience in software development (.Net and Angular).

  4. Experience in supporting digital solutions across a wide range of technical and business stakeholders.

  5. Experience developing guides, designs, architectural documents and other relevant artefacts.

Desirable criteria

  1. Qualifications or experience in supporting agile software development teams is desirable.

  2. Experience designing cloud native applications and/or migrating on-premises solutions to the cloud is desirable.

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