Senior Developer

 

Description:

About the AIHW

 

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) provides reliable, regular and relevant information and

statistics on Australia’s health and welfare.

We are committed to providing high quality, national data and analysis across the health, housing and

community services sectors. This covers a wide range of areas, from health and welfare expenditure,

hospitals, disease and injury, disability and mental health, to ageing, disadvantaged and vulnerable

populations, homelessness, and Indigenous health and welfare.

 

The AIHW Difference

 

The AIHW’s APS Employee Census results attest to our positive and supportive workplace culture. We are an

inclusive, flexible, and productive workplace where people are treated with respect and courtesy, and diverse

and unique attributes are recognised and valued. Our results also show that we achieve top ten rankings in

staff engagement, leadership, communication, innovation, and wellbeing scales out of 101 APS agencies.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• access to flexible working arrangements to support your work/life balance

• attractive remuneration packages including generous superannuation and leave provisions

• challenging and fulfilling work where you can use your skills and expertise

• opportunities for professional development including study assistance

 

We are committed to creating genuine opportunities for everyone and we welcome applications from

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s), people with disability, LGBTIQA+, neurodiverse people and

people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

The AIHW has offices in Canberra and Sydney and offers remote work opportunities for many roles.

For more information, visit the Benefits of working for the AIHW page of our website.

 

Position Summary

 

The Information & Communication Technology Group (ICTG) acts as the trusted business supplier for the

provision, support and sustainment of ICT systems and services to internal clients and external stakeholders

in line with the AIHW ICT Strategy 2020-23.

The Operations and Platforms Unit is seeking an experienced and motivated EL1 Senior Software Developer

who has demonstrated experience designing, developing and shipping software. The successful candidate

will also have knowledge of cloud-based application development including experience in architecting and

deploying applications both on premise and on cloud platforms and the necessary expertise to effectively

integrate disparate services.

 

To be successful in this role, you will have a solid understanding of application lifecycle management (ALM),

architecture and testing, and the ability to:

• Maintain a deep technical understanding of architecture, solutions and development patterns and

can lead discussions with senior executives, architects and business users.

• Practice a high degree of discipline working to an agile methodology and be able to apply this

discipline to effectively translate requirements into actionable tasks for team members.

• Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ensuring coded solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

• Mentoring junior and mid-tier developers and manage staff.

• Make decisions independently with regards to technical debt and strategic impacts.