Software Engineer

Description:

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is ranked amongst the top 100 universities in the world and a member of the prestigious Australian Group of Eight research-intensive universities. With an enviable research track record, vibrant campus and working environments, supported by the freedom to ‘innovate and inspire’ there is no better time to join Western Australia’s top university.

About the team

UWA is making significant investments in the Information and Technology Services to enable its strategic direction and goals. UWA is also looking to utilise technology advancements to expand its services and create new and innovative teaching and research models.

Robust, flexible, integrated and agile enterprise architecture, information and technology services are vital to enabling the university strategic objectives.

About the opportunity

As the appointee you will operate independently and be responsible for ensuring that the solutions are created and maintained in alignment with best practice and internal standards. You will work on business as usual and continuous improvement initiatives as well as work with project services team members on project delivery. Working within a structured IT environment, following processes and working to established standards, you will be required to contribute across the full software development lifecycle from engaging with internal business customers, eliciting software requirements and research, build, test, support and document solutions.

To be considered for this role, you will demonstrate:

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent competency
• Relevant experience with developing, implementing, integrating, and maintaining back-end web services and applications using C#, or competency in a similar language and with enthusiasm to learn C# and the .Net Framework
• Knowledge of relational database systems and proficiency with SQL
• Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle with an emphasis on analysis and development, or can demonstrate the enthusiasm to build quickly on your existing capabilities to meet this need.
• An ability to gather and document requirements appropriate to the applied methodology, e.g. agile, waterfall
• Ability to recognise and resolve system related problems; work independently and make necessary decisions within guidelines