Description:
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.
School Infrastructure NSW (SINSW) is delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies to ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. This encompasses the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW.
Lead the planning, development and implementation of innovative, data-driven digital solutions to optimise efficiencies and ensure the provision of robust digital analytics and insights for current and future school infrastructure. This involves building robust back-end solutions and engaging and interactive front-end user interfaces, which incorporate data visualisations, geospatial/mapping, and other capabilities derived from internal and external APIs.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. software engineering, computer science) and/or equivalent professional experience in developing and implementing data-driven digital solutions and designing efficient and robust data transformations.
- Extensive experience in developing innovative digital solutions using relational databases and front-end languages with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
- Extensive experience developing robust back-end solutions with server-side languages, their corresponding frameworks with supporting technologies, API integration and building APIs supported by a micro-services architecture.
- Experience with data visualisation frameworks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies, and leveraging RESTful APIs to deliver strategic outcomes and data transformation (ETL), cloud deployment (Microsoft Azure/AWS)
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Demonstrated experience in developing innovative digital solutions using relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and database driven development.
- Extensive experience in designing engaging user interfaces and experiences using front end languages (HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Sass). Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue is essential.
- Extensive experience developing robust back-end solutions with server side languages (Node.JS, Java, Python), their corresponding frameworks (Express.JS), and other supporting technologies e.g. Redis, Docker.
- Experience with API integration and building APIs supported by a micro-services architecture.
- Familiarity with data visualisation frameworks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping technologies (Mapbox, Leaflet, PostGIS) technologies, and leveraging RESTful APIs to deliver strategic outcomes.
- Experience with data transformation (ETL), cloud deployment (Microsoft Azure/AWS), and exposure to DevOps (Test Driven Development, CI/CD) is highly desirable.