Senior Developer - Grade 9/10

Work Type: Temp x2 roles up to 2 years
Location: Bathurst
Closing date: 10th September 2025 [9:59am]

About the organisation
Spatial Services, a division of the Department of Customer Service is the key provider of spatial land information services in New South Wales.

Spatial Services' integrated framework connects the people of NSW to a comprehensive package of land and property services including property information, surveying and mapping.

Spatial Services' provides land information services to individuals, businesses, government agencies and non-profit organisations throughout NSW, Australia and internationally.

About the role:
As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for planning, creating, testing, and documenting new and amended software components. Your expertise will be crucial in providing technical mentoring, support, advice, and assistance in resolving software and data issues. You will also guide team members in developing effective solutions.

The ideal candidate will have:

• The Ability to design and enhance applications and services to manage spatial and associated data, integrating with on-premises and cloud-based systems.
• Proven experience in analysing and translating business requirements into workable technical solutions
• Ability to undertake administration, testing and deployment of applications utilising agile methodologies
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with team members, other business units and agencies to deliver consistent, business-aligned solutions based on shared knowledge and understanding
• Ability to understand complex processes and information workflows and show initiative to support the broader operations

Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:

• Web application design and development including server-side APIs (preferably utilising NodeJS or Python) and client-side UIs (utilising HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
• Source code version control repositories (preferably Git) and associated platforms (such as BitBucket, GitHub, etc.).
• Automated deployments via CI/CD pipelines and associated platforms (such as AWS Code Pipeline, Bamboo, BitBucket Pipeline, etc.).
• Databases and associated processing and storage techniques (such as ETL - extracting, transforming, loading).
• Management of applications and file systems via CLI and associated scripts (such as Batch and Shell).
• Cloud based development in AWS is an advantage.

In the role of Senior Developer, you will collaborate with various teams that utilise a range of IT systems to achieve their objectives. See below non exhaustive list.

• Familiarity with these tools can be beneficial in understanding the workflows and processes within the organisation.
• Delivery Applications - ArcGIS Specialist Developer / FME / Full Stack / Java Developer
• Enterprise Applications - ArcGIS Enterprise / Database / DevOps / FME / Kubernetes / Messaging / Python / Java / ETL / Nodejs / Sys Admin
• Maintenance Applications - Esri C#.NET / FME / Full Stack / Python
• Survey Applications - Database / Full Stack / Jira / Oracle Forms

Salary Grade 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at 129,464 base plus superannuation

Click Here to access the Role Description. For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Vanessa Stanghieri via [email protected].

Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.

Closing Date: 10th September 2025 [9:59am]

Careers at Department of Customer Service
A career at the Department of Customer Service (DCS) gives you the opportunity to help improve government services and be part of reform that benefits people across NSW. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service, digital transformation, and regulatory reform. Come join us and influence the future of our great state.

Belong in our diverse and inclusive workplace
The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.

You can view our full diversity and inclusion statement here.

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