IT Technology Specialist - Mainframe - EL 2

Australian Taxation Office; Canberra; On-site; AUD 156,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Australian Taxation Office in Canberra invites an IT Technology Specialist – Mainframe to join the Enterprise Solutions and Technology division. You will provide senior technical leadership and expert advice to ensure stability, security and continuous improvement of the mainframe environments, underpinning critical business operations.

As lead administrator for IBM SCLM, you will safeguard the integrity of the codebase, support source control across development, test and production, and

Job description

• $155,911 - $185,713 + 15.4% super
• Ongoing/non-ongoing opportunities with flexible working arrangements

We are seeking a Technology Specialist - Mainframe to join our Enterprise Solutions and Technology (EST) business area.

As an IT Technology Specialist – Mainframe, within the Mainframe Delivery Centre, you will provide senior technical leadership and expert advice in a role that has a strong focus on ensuring the stability, security and ongoing improvement of the ATO’s mainframe environments, which underpin key business and operational outcomes.

As a lead administrator for IBM Software Configuration and Library Manager (SCLM), you will safeguard the integrity of the ATO mainframe codebase and support source code management across development, test and production environments, including integration with automated build tools such as Azure DevOps.

You and your team will perform functions that are an integral part of the mainframe environment provisioning, code deployment and support, and ensuring the stability and currency of internal tooling that underpins the ATO development ecosystem.

As a senior leader, you will lead and mentor a team to resolve complex issues, support modernisation and automation initiatives, build capability and drive efficiencies across existing services while contributing to operational and business planning processes.

You will foster and drive a culture of continuous improvement, supporting staff to adopt and adapt to a constantly changing technology and risk environment. The role may include on‑call or out‑of‑hours support for business‑critical services.

These roles may be offered on an ongoing or non‑ongoing basis in Brisbane CBD, Canberra or Melbourne CBD.

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The Australian Taxation Office is recognised by the Australian Disability Network as a Disability Confident Recruiter employer . This status is an annual achievement and valid for 12 months from the date of issue.

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