Development Team Lead

• Ongoing Full-time opportunity
• Shape, build and deliver the systems that safeguard Democracy
• Guide a high-performing dev team to success

About the Role

We have a great opportunity for a full-time, ongoing Development Team Lead to join our dynamic Business Systems business unit delivering and supporting bespoke developed applications.  The Electoral Commission is an exciting place to work with a highly collaborative culture and strong public purpose. 

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead, to run a multi-disciplinary agile development team to produce high quality solutions in preparation for state-wide elections. This requires the delivery of system enhancements and new solutions to be prepared against very tight deadlines creating a fast paced environment with great collaboration across all areas.  

This exciting opportunity will suit an experienced Team Lead with an agile development background who can work at pace and bring their expertise and experience to drive continual improvement in application development. 

If you want to be part of safeguarding democracy, please apply with an up-to-date CV and a covering letter addressing your skills and 
experience against the role requirements listed below.

About the NSW Electoral Commission

The New South Wales Electoral Commission delivers trusted and independent systems, processes, oversight and engagement that support democracy in New South Wales. Our vision is to maintain confidence in the integrity of the democratic process and make it easy for people to understand and participate.

Our work includes:

• Running and regulating elections
• Communicating and engaging with current and future voters, key NSW community stakeholders and NSW election participants; and
• Investigating possible offences and enforcing electoral and lobbying laws such as the Electoral Act 2017 and the Electoral Funding Act 2018.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on large scale events and assist your local community  
• Career development opportunities through study and face to face training
• Access to self-paced expert-led training via LinkedIn Learning
• Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support 
• Staff social events to connect with colleagues  
• Work/Life balance (35 hour working week), flex leave, generous holidays and leave conditions
• Access to Fitness Passport for eligible staff 
• Free annual flu vaccination
• Convenient CBD location, access to public transport 

Key knowledge, experience and essential requirements

As the successful candidate, you will have:

• Proven experience in managing the delivery of complex software projects, preferably in both Waterfall and Agile environments, including the demonstrated ability to accurately estimate and scope work to deliver software changes.
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams for high performance against challenging deadlines in a matrix management environment.
• Extensive experience in application development with a strong technical background in Microsoft technologies and cloud computing platforms, such as Azure, including relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences including strong written and presentation skills. 
• Strong track record in engaging at a technical level with teams to maximise individual team member and overall team performance.
• Demonstrated experience using a range of software development planning, monitoring reporting and quality assurance tools, such as Jira, Zephr, Confluence, Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
• Knowledge and experience of ITIL/ITSM frameworks in practice.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Politically neutral with no affiliation to political parties or lobbyists/campaigners.
• Satisfactory criminal record check results.

How to apply
As part of your application, you will be asked to respond to the two targeted questions:

1. What is your motivation for applying for a role at the NSW Electoral Commission? (maximum 300 words)
2. Describe a time when you have had conflicting deadlines. How did you negotiate with stakeholders and still deliver a project within expectations (maximum 300 words)

You should include a covering letter addressing the essential requirements with relevant examples from your experience, along with an up-to-date resume. 

For further information regarding the role please download the Role Description.

Applying for a role in the NSW Public Service

For more information on how to apply for a role in the NSW Public Service, please refer here.

The NSW Electoral Commission embraces diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the population of New South Wales. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, mature-age people, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this role. 

If you have any questions about applying or would benefit from an adjustment to the recruitment process to help you perform your best please contact For more information on recruitment adjustments visit I Work for NSW Adjustments for individual needs.

Applications received and completed after closing time will not be considered for selection. 

The selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.

For further information, contact NSW Electoral Commission's Talent team on

Other Information

Your employment will be subject to National Criminal Records Check to determine your suitability for employment.

The NSW Electoral Commission is committed to maintaining public confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. The Commission requires all its employees to refrain from membership of any political party and from engaging in political activity which could be seen as reflecting adversely on the strict political neutrality of the Commission. To maintain political neutrality, applicants for roles with the Commission who are, who have been or who may be perceived to be or have been connected with political activities may also be ineligible for appointment and should disclose such information as part of their application. This does not include voting in a Commonwealth, State or Local Government election, which is compulsory in NSW.  The Commission's Political Neutrality Policy may be viewed on its website.

A talent pool may be created from this recruitment action for ongoing and temporary roles of the same work classification that may become available for filling over the next 18 months.

This role is based in at our Elizabeth Street, Sydney office with a hybrid work arrangement. 

Applications Close: Thursday 30th October 2025 @ 11.59pm