Senior WebSphere Software Engineer

Indigitise; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Indigitise is seeking a Development Expert to oversee software projects and provide technical leadership for a team of software engineers. This EL1-equivalent role focuses on designing, building, testing and documenting systems while adhering to security standards.

The position involves leading development activities, evaluating complex issues, and maintaining high quality across production environments. Initially onsite in Canberra, a hybrid arrangement may be negotiated based on travel and

Qualifications

• Emerging technology monitoring: SFIA Level 5.
• Methods and tools: SFIA Level 5.
• Release and deployment: SFIA Level 5.
• Software configuration: SFIA Level 5.
• Designs complex software applications following standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, test and document software systems and applications in accordance with development and security standards.
• Lead software development projects and provide technical leadership to teams; manage planning and construction activities.
• Ensure quality and functionality of software, adhering to standards and guidelines.
• Collaborate with analysts, testers and developers to deliver high-quality software on secure platforms.
• Participate in code reviews and follow secure, testable development practices.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Work independently and in team environments.
• Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Strong problem-solving

Team collaboration

Good communication

Independent work

Tools

SmartIQ/Infiniti

Drupal/GovCMS

Elastic/Kibana/Prometheus

SQL Server

IBM DB2

ASP.NET MVC/Web API

Middleware

Entra ID

Gateways

Job description

Canberra, Australia | Posted on 10/11/2026

• Assigned Recruiter(s) Sri Ram Harsha Pillutla
• Initial Contract Duration 12 months
• Job Opening Status Open
• Extension Options 2
• Location ACT; QLD; VIC; NSW; SA
• Security Clearance NV1
• Province Australian Capital Territory
• Country Australia
• Postal Code 2600

Working Arrangements

The Labour Hire Worker is expected to work onsite for the first 6 weeks before a hybrid flexible working arrangement can be considered, unless otherwise negotiated. A hybrid flexible working arrangement may then be considered, ensuring the Labour Hire Worker’s residing address is within reasonable travel time and distance of the RFQ location to present onsite in cases of emergency or to meet business requirements. The location is the capital city of selected state/s.

Job Description

Job details

• Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.
  
• Also identified as Development Experts - EL1 Equivalent
  
• Development professionals design, create, test and document software systems and applications in accordance with agreed development and security standards and processes.
  
• Development Experts lead software development projects and provide technical leadership to their teams. They manage software planning, development, and construction activities, and evaluate and resolve complex issues within the development and production environments.
  
• Development experts are responsible for the quality and functionality of software, ensuring adherence to relevant standards, guidelines, and methods for system development.
  
• Development Experts:
  
• lead the delivery of flexible, quality modern customer service
  
• work under the broad direction of senior staff to deliver results
  
• make ethical, evidence-based decisions using sound judgement
  
• develop and manage stakeholder relationships.
  

Key duties and responsibilities

Duties may include some or all of the following:

• Design, create, test and document software systems and applications in accordance with agreed development and security standards and processes.
  
• Lead software development projects and provide technical leadership to their teams. Manage software planning, development, and construction activities, and evaluate and resolve complex issues within the development and production environments.
  
• Responsible for the quality and functionality of software, ensuring adherence to relevant standards, guidelines, and methods for system development.
  
• Collaborate with business analysts, testers, and other developers to deliver high-quality software on secure platforms.
  
• Participate in code reviews and follow best practices for secure, testable and scalable development
  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
  
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
  
• Good communication skills for liaising with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Adaptability to work with both legacy and modern technologies
  

Technical Skills

• Experience with SmartIQ/Infiniti, Drupal/GovCMS, Elastic/Kabana/Prometheus integration.
  
• Migrate and refactor legacy Middleware code or apps to modernized Server and Network architectures where applicable
  
• Implement and support File Transfers, Messaging/Web Service & API solutions for Middleware components.
  
• Work with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server & IBM DB2) and other ICT infrastructures (e.g. Firewalls, LDAP/AD, Entra ID, Gateways).
  
• Migrate and refactor legacy Middleware code to modern Server and Network interface architectures where applicable.
  
• Implement ASP.NET MVC/Web API solutions for web based components.
  
• Optimise application performance, troubleshoot issues, and apply bug fixes.
  
• Work with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server)Develop, build, operate, monitor, and release enterprise midrange Java applications in IBM WebSphere on RHEL & Windows
  

Develop, build, operate, monitor, and release enterprise midrange Java applications in IBM WebSphere on RHEL & Windows

Requirements

1. Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)

Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

2. Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)

Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

4. Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)

Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

5. Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)

Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.

Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommend alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.

Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.

Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.

9. Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)

Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.

Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.