Software Development Lead - NV1

Informatech Pty Ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Informatech Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Development Lead to act as the onsite operational lead for the Informatech team delivering a government-focused ICT contract. You will coordinate BAU maintenance, L2/L3 support, and defect remediation while guiding backlog shaping and feature sizing.

You will provide technical direction across C#/.NET, integration, database, and DevOps activities, and support incident triage, root cause analysis, and known-error management.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading a development team (onsite/client-facing) including coordination with a client or department
• Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, including pipelines, repositories, and security tooling
• Experience with incident triage, root cause analysis, and known-error/problem management
• Comfort running agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog grooming, client demos, and tracking delivery against commitments
• Experience operating in ISM-aligned government or regulated environments
• Familiarity with Power Apps, GovCMS/Drupal, or mobile application development
• Excellent stakeholder communication; client-facing role interfacing with department and delivery lead

Responsibilities

• Acting as the onsite operational lead for the Informatech development team
• Coordinating BAU maintenance, L2/L3 support, defect remediation, and enhancement delivery
• Leading backlog shaping, feature sizing, and requirements clarification
• Providing technical direction across C#/.NET, integration, database, and DevOps activities
• Supporting incident triage, root cause analysis, and known-error management
• Facilitating sprint planning, work allocation, delivery tracking, and client demos
• Ensuring development work is maintainable, supportable, secure, and testable
• Working closely with the QA/Test Lead to align delivery with release assurance and quality gates

Skills

Team leadership

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Security tooling

Incident triage

Root cause analysis

Agile ceremonies

Client-facing

ISM/government environment

Power Apps

GovCMS/Drupal

Mobile app development

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Power Apps

GovCMS/Drupal

Mobile app development

Job description

Informatech is a leading ICT consultancy with over 200 professionals specialising in Technical Services, Testing, Project Delivery, and Cyber Security. Since 2015, we've grown rapidly while earning national recognition and awards, and ranked on the AFR Fast 100 for a third consecutive year. 100% Australian-owned and DISP accredited, we back our people with real career stability, genuine development opportunities, and complex, high-impact work across Defence, National Security, and Federal Government.

Informatech has been engaged to deliver a managed services contract providing development, testing, and support services for a suite of bespoke, health-sector information systems on behalf of a Federal Government Department.

What you\'ll be doing

• Acting as the onsite operational lead for the Informatech development team
• Coordinating BAU maintenance, L2/L3 support, defect remediation, and enhancement delivery
• Leading backlog shaping, feature sizing, and requirements clarification
• Providing technical direction across C#/.NET, integration, database, and DevOps activities
• Supporting incident triage, root cause analysis, and known-error management
• Facilitating sprint planning, work allocation, delivery tracking, and client demos
• Ensuring development work is maintainable, supportable, secure, and testable
• Working closely with the QA/Test Lead to align delivery with release assurance and quality gates

What you\'ll bring

• Demonstrated experience leading or directing a development team (3+ direct reports or equivalent), including onsite/client-facing coordination
• Solid experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, including pipelines, repositories, and security tooling
• Experience with incident triage, root cause analysis, and known-error/problem management in an operational support environment
• Comfort running agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog grooming, client demos, and tracking delivery against commitments
• Experience operating in ISM-aligned, government, or regulated environments
• Familiarity with Power Apps, Drupal/GovCMS, or mobile application development highly regarded
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, this role is client-facing and will interface directly with the department and Informatech\'s Delivery Lead

Clearance

This role requires a current NV1 security clearance and Australian citizenship.