Senior Software Engineer

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in Sydney seeks a senior ICT leader to guide a multi-disciplinary team in delivering and maintaining complex software services. You will plan priorities, drive improvements, and engage stakeholders to support national security objectives.

The role emphasises strategic thinking, evidence-based decision making, and governance to ensure delivery reliability and tooling efficiency.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end delivery and sustainment activities including incident and problem resolution.
• Experience supporting software systems in Java/JEE, containerisation, and web technologies.
• Strong governance, risk, and reliability judgment in complex ICT environments.
• Tertiary ICT qualifications or equivalent experience are highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to a multi-disciplinary team to meet objectives.
• Plan, prioritise and coordinate activities to meet deadlines and priorities.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to build productive relationships.
• Apply critical thinking to identify and implement solutions to complex problems.
• Contribute to high‑quality briefings and submissions for decision forums.
• Drive software quality and development productivity through tooling and processes.
• Provide cross-team leadership to deliver, deploy, operate and maintain software services.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Team coordination

Education

Tertiary ICT qualifications

Tools

Kubernetes

Java/JEE

Tomcat

React

Spring Boot

Oracle

Unix/Windows

Job description

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission – Sydney NSW

The key duties of the position include:

• Provide strategic leadership and direction, inspiring and guiding a multi-disciplinary team to achieve organisational objectives.
• Plan, prioritise and coordinate competing activities to ensure deadlines and business priorities are effectively managed.
• Communicate persuasively and engage effectively with stakeholders to build and maintain productive internal and external working relationships.
• Apply critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving skills to identify, evaluate and implement solutions to complex business problems
• Contribute to the development of high-quality briefings, papers, submissions and correspondence for internal and external decision-making forums.
• Use strategic thinking and evidence-based decision-making to drive improvements in software quality, development productivity, and maintainability through effective tools and processes.
• Provide cross-team leadership and support to enable the successful delivery, deployment, operation, and maintenance of software services through the coordination and continuous improvement of shared platforms, environments, deployment pipelines, tooling, processes, and dependencies.

Your Skills and Capabilities

We invite applications from people with the following experience, skills and attributes:

• Demonstrated ability to lead or coordinate end to end delivery and sustainment activities, including incident and problem resolution, defect remediation, testing, change control and production release.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting and developing software systems, in particular in environments based on Java, JEE frameworks, Containerisation (Kubernetes), Oracle, Unix, Windows, HTML5, CSS, Typescript, Javascript, Tomcat, Node, React and Spring Boot framework.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting or integrating software products from third party vendors, including modified and bespoke applications, commercial or government off-the-shelf.
• Well-developed management, stakeholder engagement, documentation and prioritisation skills, with the judgement to balance delivery, risk, compliance and system reliability in a complex ICT setting.
• Tertiary ICT qualifications or equivalent/demonstrated experience are highly regarded.

Eligibility

• Citizenship – To be eligible for employment with the ACIC, applicants must be an Australian citizen.
• Security Clearance – The Australian community expects ACIC employees to maintain the highest levels of security and integrity. Successful applicants will be required to obtain and maintain a minimum Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance.
• Pre-Employment Screening – All candidates must satisfy an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to being offered employment at the ACIC. Please refer to the ACIC’s Character Standards for further information.

Notes

The ACIC is committed to diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and champion diversity to ensure we reflect the community we serve, and pride ourselves on our vibrant culture. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, neurodiverse, mature aged employees and carers.

More information about our conditions is available in the ACIC Enterprise Agreement 2024-2027 on our website.

Getting to know the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is Australia’s national criminal intelligence agency. Our vision is an Australia hostile to criminal exploitation.We work with our national and international partners to conduct investigations and collectintelligence to combat serious and organised crime, cybercrime and national security threats.We develop and maintain national information and intelligence sharing services and systems for use by state, territory and Commonwealth law enforcement agencies. We also deliver nationwide background checking services to support employment or entitlement decisions to keep the Australian community safe.The ACIC Board provides strategic direction to the ACIC and represents Commonwealth, state and territory law enforcement and other regulatory agencies.Our purpose is to protect Australia from criminal threats through coordinating a strategic response and collecting, assessing and disseminating intelligence and policing information.