Senior .Net Software Developer

Australian citizenship required. No PR or Work Visa holders. Must be able to obtain Baseline security clearance.

RFQ Details

RFQ ID: LH-02322

Closing Date: Friday, 02 May 2025 11:59pm (Canberra time)

Estimated Start Date: Tuesday, 01 July 2025

Initial Contract Duration: 12 months

Extension Term: 12 months

Number of Extensions: 2

Experience Level: EL1 equivalent

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline

Client Details

Agency: Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Location of Work: ACT

Working Arrangements: Hybrid

Remote working arrangements may be considered on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the supervising manager, subject to business needs.

Please indicate clearly in your response the candidates desired work location if outside ACT/Canberra.

Maximum Hours: 40 hours per week

Job Details

The Department of Industry, Science and Resources and our broader portfolio are integral to the Australian Governments economic agenda. Our purpose is to help the government build a better future for all Australians through enabling a productive, resilient and sustainable economy, enriched by science and technology. We do this by:

• growing innovative and competitive businesses, industries and regions
• investing in science and technology
• strengthening the resources sector
  
  
  

The CIO Division provides a range of enabling services and operations delivery to the department and to Australian businesses and is seeking experienced and motivated .Net developers with a minimum of 5 years experience to assist with the delivery of various ICT Projects across the Division.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Azure based web API and Portal applications to support existing legislative reporting requirements, and new regulatory processes
• Be able to integrate various system components to achieve a seamless end to end experience for users
• Provide technical advice on issues related to systems development
• Apply secure coding practices/processes to ensure solutions delivered are secure and robust
• Conduct peer reviews of code and infrastructure
• Understand and code against detailed application architecture documents
• Ensure that best practice and Departmental standards are applied and managed
• Create and review technical/release documentation
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Effectively collaborate with a cross-functional team working with an agile structure
• Collaborate and mentor team members to promote team harmony and support cross-skilling professional development
• Instil a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a team environment
• Undertake additional duties as required
  
  
  

Selection Criteria

Max 5000 characters total in one-page pitch (individual responses not required)

Essential Criteria

1. Technical Skills: Demonstrated experience (Min 5 years) implementing secure web based business solutions. experience developing web APIs using Azure API Manager and customer facing web portal development using .NET Framework (including .NET Core) and ASP.NET Experience developing web applications using either Angular or React Familiarity with the Information Security Manual (ISM), its controls and how to apply them to a solution design and build Experience with unit/integration/automation testing. Familiarity with xUnit, nUnit, Selenium, Playwright.Net.

2. Cloud experience: Demonstrated experience in cloud-based solution implementation with technologies such as: Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL and Azure Service Bus and Azure API Manager Azure DevOps and Visual Studio for code development, management, repositories, and deployments (CI/CD) integrating custom built apps with third-party systems, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Extensive experience developing on Azure platforms Demonstrated experience in successfully optimising complex legacy code to fully utilise benefits of Azure Cloud environment

3. Agile: Experience working with Agile multi-disciplinary teams to deliver secure, user friendly and reliable solutions that meet stakeholder, citizen, and business expectations. Ability to pragmatically change direction and scope as new information is discovered and challenges or opportunities present themselves

4. Cultural fit: Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams Ability to work with technical and non-technical staff at all levels. Ability to collaborate and mentor team members to promote team harmony

Desirable Criteria

1. Experience in development using Agile and DevOps delivery models

2. Experience developing web applications using either Angular or React

3. Integration/UI/FrontEnd testing: Selenium, Playwright.Net, Jest

4. Tertiary qualifications in software design and development and experience working with SQL servers, Cosmos DB, Blob storage and high-volume data traffic/processing