• Permanent, ongoing engagement
• Hybrid working is allowed - ACT office preferred, open to candidates from NSW, VIC, SA & QLD
• Candidates must be Australian citizens
• Existing baseline security clearance required

The role

The Business Applications Technical Lead is a key leadership position within Technology Services who leads the in-house development and support of custom applications and capabilities. The key activities of the position include:

• Full stack development, from front-end user interfaces through to databases, identifying and utilising the most appropriate technologies.
• Facilitating decision making for software design, planning, implementation, and deployment activities.
• Supporting the team's pipeline automation, taking responsibility for the ongoing support of production capabilities.
• Actively engaging with users, identifying issues and developing new features to meet business needs.
• Leading teams through upskilling, including peer programming, leading code reviews, implementing relevant project management practices, providing feedback and mentoring.
• Contributing to technical cohort expertise and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Key accountabilities:

• Drive technical delivery for the agency's applications effectively within a complex technical environment.
• Undertake full stack applications development throughout the design, planning, implementation and deployment lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide technical staff to grow technical capabilities and expertise.
• Engage stakeholders, peers and users to define, and respond to requirements.
• Actively contribute to technical strategy, policy and procedures.
• Apply technical skills in an innovative, proactive and experienced way to solve complex problems.

The requirements:

Experience

• Strong technical skills, with the ability to deliver on their work and contribute towards team deliverables.
• Ability to lead software development teams and build productive working relationships with the technical cohort.
• A focus on meeting best practices for code quality, performance and security.
• Significant experience in software development with proven delivery.
• Strong collaboration and user engagement skills.
• Ability to understand full stack development environments and have informed discussions with other technical staff.
• Ability to work with minimal direction and lead a small technical team to achieve outcomes, drawing on subject matter expertise.
• Ability to develop, test, review and document complex applications.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members on software development.
• Ability to allocate work, set priorities and develop strategies for a small development team.
• Ability to facilitate knowledge transfer and maintain a comprehensive knowledge base.

Mandatory

• Demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, and supporting high performance scalable Spring Boot or J2EE applications on Linux platforms using agile and lean practices.
• Proficiency in the following:
• Java
• Application frameworks like Spring Boot 3/Spring 6
• Service Oriented Architecture / Web Services - SOAP / REST
• Web Technologies and frameworks like Bootstrap, Thymeleaf, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery
• Build tools like Maven
• An IDE like IntelliJ
• Automated testing
• Unit testing tools like JUnit or Test NG, and unit testing strategies
• Source control tools such as GitHub

Desirable

• js
• ECMAScript 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
• Continuous integration tools like Jenkins
• Source code quality analysis tools such as SonarQube
• SQL database tools like SQL Developer, Oracle database, Toad
• Apache Kafka
• Story, bug tracking and documentation tools such as JIRA and Confluence

• Well versed in:
• Ability to cross skill in other technologies, such as Oracle ADF (legacy software scheduled for redevelopment in Java)

How to apply:

Please hit the apply button or for more information contact Fred Barnes at Randstad Digital on 0402 299 590.

At Randstad Digital, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.