Salesforce Developer - Positions

Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 116,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions is seeking a Salesforce Developer to deliver enhancements across multiple Salesforce instances in an Agile environment. The role focuses on technical development, solution design, integrations, delivery and release management.

Certification and Trailhead badges are expected within 12 months and supported by the department. These are fixed‑term positions for 12 months with full‑time hours and located at 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne VIC

Qualifications

• Experience in Salesforce Sales Cloud development and design.
• Ability to provide strategy recommendations for development, including security and third‑party tools.
• Experience managing changes across development environments in line with policies.
• Knowledge of SDLC and use of Source Control tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Git) and test strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop Lightning UIs and components on the Salesforce platform.
• Integrate Salesforce with other platforms (Office 365, Oracle) to deliver best practice outcomes.
• Handle deployment, testing and release management in CI/CD environments.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including planning, sizing and daily standups.

Skills

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Apex

Lightning Web Components

JavaScript

Agile

Problem solving

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Illuminated Cloud

Jenkins

Office 365

Oracle

Job description

Our work spans numerous portfolios, supporting departmental ministers and operating across metropolitan, regional and international offices. The Department welcomes and encourages applications from diverse applicants, including First Peoples, refugees or asylum seekers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ people and people with disability. All roles at DJSIR can be worked flexibly and we offer reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities.

Salesforce Developer – 3 x Positions

• Salary: $116,413 - $140,849 ( Plus superannuation)
• Fixed-term positions for 12 months
• Usual hours of work: Full-time ((flexibility may be available)
• Usual work location: 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (flexibility may be available)

The Role

The Salesforce Developer will deliver enhancements in an Agile environment across the department's multiple Salesforce instances. The Salesforce Developer is responsible for Salesforce technical development and solution design, integrations with other platforms, delivery, and release management. The role provides strategy recommendations for Salesforce development, including technology approaches, security, apps, and third-party tools that deliver best practice outcomes. This role comes with an expectation that Salesforce certification and Trailhead badges will be obtained within 12 months of commencing and this will be supported by the department.

Key accountabilities

• Participation in all Agile ceremonies including planning, sizing, and daily standups for all development tasks. This will include usage of Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, Illuminated Cloud, Jenkins and Agile development toolsets.
• Analysis and review of business requirements, definition, and delivery of technical coding strategies. This will include development of Lightning UIs and components on the Salesforce platform.
• Contribute to design, development and support of integrations between platforms (e.g. Office 365, Oracle and Salesforce) that deliver best practice outcomes.
• Implementation of requirements in the development environment, including solution and functional architecture, testing and deployment steps into production.
• Mange code repositories and test classes as required under the department's continuous integration processes, including the use of Bitbucket and Jenkins.

The Team

The position of Salesforce Developer will work within Information Services / Strategic Platforms branch which sits within Corporate Services Group. The Corporate Services group consists of specialist functions including finance, investment and procurement, performance and governance, legal and legislation, people and culture, information technology and workplace services and emergency management. These functions enable the department to operate efficiently and effectively and support the Secretary and Ministers to meet legislative obligations and responsibilities whilst actively supporting the department's portfolio groups and Ministers to create the conditions for growing Victoria's prosperity, building the productive capacity of our economy, and increasing participation.

About You

• Demonstrated expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud technical development and solution design, including configuration and customization, preferably in a support or Agile development environment using Visualforce, Apex, Aura Components, Lightning Web Components, JavaScript and JQuery.
• Ability to provide strategy recommendations for development, including provision of recommendations on technology approaches, security, apps and third-party tools that deliver best practice outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in managing changes through different developme nt environments, in compliance with organizational change management policies and processes.
• Capability in technical delivery and release management from solution and functional architecture deliverables, through the full SDLC including usage of Source Control tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Git) and test strategies.

Further Information

The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Records Check prior to commencing employment with the Department.

For a confidential discussion, please Kasun Perera, Salesforce Development Lead via email [emailprotected]

Applications close at 23:59pm on Monday, 26 October 2026.