Application Developer – Digital Portfolio Systems and Delivery

Team 3Thirty; City of Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 117,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Communities and Justice in Parramatta is seeking an Application Developer – Digital Portfolio Systems and Delivery. This temporary 12-month, full-time role builds and maintains OutSystems applications to streamline business processes, covering screens, workflows and integrations while delivering responsive, accessible interfaces.

You will work on third-level support, collaborate with stakeholders, and apply your Java and web development skills to ensure reliable releases and

Qualifications

• OutSystems development and delivery experience.
• Web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with REST services and SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain OutSystems applications to improve business processes.
• Provide third-level support and application builds.
• Ensure responsive and accessible interfaces and seamless integrations.

Skills

Java

Education

Degree in Information Science/Technology

Tools

OutSystems

CI/CD

Job description

The Application Developer – Digital Portfolio Systems and Delivery at the Department of Communities and Justice works on OutSystems applications used to improve business processes. Based in Parramatta, the temporary 12-month position covers application builds and third-level support. Screens, workflows and integrations form part of the work, alongside responsive and accessible interfaces.

Previous applicants need not reapply for this re-advertised position.

Role title Application Developer – Digital Portfolio Systems and Delivery

Organisation Department of Communities and Justice

Location Parramatta

Job reference 85879-44474367

Work type Temporary 12 months, full-time, 35 hours per week

Remuneration Clerk Grade 7/8, $116,981 to $129,492 base salary, plus superannuation and annual leave loading

Closing date 14 October 2026 AEST (advertised wording)

Required written questions

Question

Describe the most complex OutSystems application you have developed or maintained. In your response, include Project size and duration, team size, your responsibilities. Key technical challenges faced, how you resolved them and outcomes achieved. State the project’s duration and team size before explaining your responsibility. Describe a specific design or integration problem, the options you considered, your solution and the result. Include release or production evidence where it supports the outcome.

Outline your experience in providing administration, technical support, and configuration management of core business systems. What strategies do you have to ensure that you are adept across a wide range of systems and technologies? Use an example of a business system you supported or configured. Explain how you diagnosed incidents, controlled configuration changes and kept services available, then show how documentation, practice or professional development helped you work across technologies.

Eligibility and essential role requirements

• Qualifications in Information Science/Technology or experience relevant to the role, together with demonstrated continuing professional development.

The qualification has an experience alternative. Explain which pathway you meet and support it with relevant work and continuing development. Fluency in at least one programming language is a stated requirement, with Java preferred.

The evidence areas below draw on the work and experience requested for this position. Use them to choose relevant examples; check the role description for the official focus capabilities.

Requirement or evidence area

How to demonstrate it

OutSystems development and delivery Describe the screens, workflows or business logic you built, your contribution and a result you can substantiate.

Web development and accessible interfaces Explain how you used HTML, CSS and JavaScript to deliver a usable interface, including how you tested it.

REST services, SQL databases and modelling Show an integration or data-design decision involving Oracle, MySQL or MSSQL, including the risk or performance issue you resolved.

Release tools and reliable support Connect OutSystems Lifetime, version control or CI/CD work with controlled releases and how you handled a production incident.

Interpreting requirements and balancing delivery priorities Explain how you worked with stakeholders across applications or projects and agreed what could be delivered within the available time.

Programming-language fluency and continued development Name the language you can use fluently and illustrate it with delivery work. Java is preferred; explain how you maintain your technical skills.

What the panel will want to see in your examples

• The project scale and the part you personally owned
• A technical challenge with a clear diagnosis and decision
• Evidence that integrations or releases worked as intended
• How you controlled configuration and handled complex incidents
• A practical method for keeping skills current across systems