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Salary- Location: Canberra
- Job Type: Ongoing
- Salary: $105,820 - $127,577 p.a plus 15.4% superannuation
The ACIC is at the forefront of tackling serious and organised crime targeting Australia, both within our borders and offshore. Our staff operate against a pervasive, transnational and globalised criminal threat, and work hard to realise an Australia hostile to criminal exploitation. As a small agency that makes a real impact on serious and organised crime, we need talented and dedicated people who are intelligent, highly capable and seeking to make a difference to the lives of all Australians.
About the branch
The Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) Division provides critical ICT infrastructure, systems and services for the ACIC and its partner agencies in support of its strategic purpose and mission. The Business Systems Delivery (BSD) Branch is responsible for the delivery of all ICT projects to uplift or enhance the technology capabilities in collaboration with ACIC’s national, international, jurisdictional and industry partners. BSD applies systems-thinking, incremental delivery practices and close engagement with the users and the business owner to discover opportunities, design solutions and implement systems that meet the needs of the agency and our customers.
About the role
The Senior Specialist Systems Integration is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s (ACIC) service interfaces between the ACIC and its partner agencies as well as designing integration between ACIC business systems, using ACIC integration patterns.
Our ideal candidate
- Designs, documents and implements service interfaces, integration logic and XML schema design for messaging solutions
- Works well with application development teams to ensure broad solutions that maximise interoperability, reusability, service capacity and capability to end users.
- Investigates and resolves complex integration and messaging problems.
- Develops and maintains performance, monitoring, logging, audit and testing tools associated with messaging and integration
- Actively builds and maintains productive stakeholder relationships, including providing advice and guidance to team members on more complex messaging and integration requirements and solutions.
- Ideally the Senior Specialist Systems Integration will possess tertiary or industry qualifications in information technology or a related field and 5 years’ experience working as a senior member of an integration team.
- Experience operating in a law enforcement or national security context will also be beneficial for the occupant of this position.
- If this role is being advertised as ongoing and non-ongoing, it may be offered as ongoing or non-ongoing subject to operational requirements and/or candidate preference. Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for a specified term of up to 18 months. A specified term may be extended up to a maximum period of 3 years.
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS, unless the agency head has agreed otherwise, in writing. For further information, contact the Recruitment Team.
- The Australian community expects ACIC employees to maintain the highest levels of security and integrity. Successful applicants will be required to obtain and maintain, or continue to hold, the required security clearance for this role. All ACIC employees are required to hold a minimum Negative Vetting 1 security clearance, unless otherwise specified.
- All candidates must satisfy an Organisational Suitability Assessment (OSA) prior to being offered employment at the ACIC. This requires the applicant to undergo character and background screening, and participate in a psychological assessment. Please refer to our Character Standards for further information.
- To be eligible to work at the ACIC, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Being fully vaccinated ensures the health and safety of all employees, and the Australian community. Satisfactory proof of vaccination status will be required before you are able to commence employment with the ACIC.
