AddressOpen To: Australian Citizens With Baseline Clearance
Locations: Canberra ACT or Brisbane QL
12- 36 Month Contract or Fixed term
June Start
The branch is focused on the management of identity, authentication and authorisation services across the branch and the whole-of-government (WofG), including the DTA’s Digital Identity and myGov programs.
The Digital Identity Services portfolio develops, maintains and supports critical identity, authentication and authorisation (DIS) applications. The teams are delivering digital initiatives like myGov/ integration, digital mailbox and digital identity app (myGovID) while also providing identity, authentication and authorisation support to multiple priority programs of work. Thia portfolio has a suite of technologies like .NET/SQL, CA (PKI) certificate, cryptographic software for new generation technologies like Angular JS, integration services with Document Verification Service (DVS) and using cutting edge technology to integrate with Facial Verification Service (FVS).
The team uses DevOps model in self-contained, multidisciplinary scrum teams, while the program is delivered under the SAFe framework (Agile Release Train) methodology.
Experience Required
- Work as a developer to develop and support applications using .NET C# to enable Digital Identity Services projects.
- Experience working with application security and identity management, preferably with experience relating to OpenID and JWTs.
- Considerable experience working with AWS suite of applications.
- Good understanding of SOLID principles, the HTTP protocol, REST, microservice patterns, T-SQL and NodeJS.
- Deliver solutions with a large degree of independence to support business needs and to take ownership of components delivered.
- Has expertise in implementing enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures and procedures during development.
- Apply high level judgement in the assessment and estimation of solutions, and provide assurance that implementation is compliant with the Brnches enterprise architecture and IT standards.
- Be accountable for the delivery of projects or activities involving the development and/or maintenance of computer applications in accordance with the Branch's standards and guidelines.
- Actively participate in the development lifecycle, which may include analysis, design, building, testing, pair programming, code-reviews, documentation, and maintenance.
- Take the initiative to undertake problem solving and incident resolution and demonstrate an understanding of change control and release management procedures.
- Highly desirable that you have experience with DevOps and CI/CD, preferably with relevant experience using Azure DevOps and PowerShell.
- Experience with work items to track progress and integration with workflow systems, ideally Azure DevOps
- Experience with Source code management (Git).
- Contributes to Technical Documentation under the Tech Lead and Architects guidance, with experience in UML being highly desirable.
- Critical evaluation of technology and tools and provide recommendations to be actioned.
Duties Include::
Working in a Team:
- Experience in working collaboratively with Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads, Release Leads, Release Train Engineer, Tech Leads, Test Leads, Architects, System Analysts, other Developers, Management, and Stakeholders as a Senior Developer to see through products from inception to production and to BAU (Business as Usual).
- High team collaboration for all work undertaken to build team culture.
- Work with the team to improve code quality through code reviews, writing unit tests, and automation.
- Experience working in an agile project delivery team.
- Support the testers to plan and where required, execute both functional and non-functional tests within agreed timeframes.
- Keep Team members regularly informed of progress on work, and of any risk to meeting release timelines or quality standards.
- Pro-active participation in Agile events including sprint planning, demos, reviews, daily stand-ups etc.
- Work with the product and design team to understand end-user requirements and use cases. Translated into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
Communication
- Can confidently use a range of communication channels, to communicate fluently and effectively, clearly
- Ability to explain complex concepts to individuals and groups, tailor communication to the audience without personal bias and use effective communication styles and sound arguments to influence others.
- bility to write fluently in a range of styles and formats.
Networking
- Develop and maintain a network with others internally and externally, build relationships with team members, management, and a range of stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement:
- Research and develop continuous improvement processes to enhance procedures of current and new work practices.
- Develop and maintain necessary levels of expertise and take responsibility for sharing knowledge with others.
- Actively mentor and train junior staff members.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and have the chance to contribute innovative and original ideas to our product.
- Encourage and promote quality excellence within the team, ensure that work practices are effective and consistent, and that best practice is identified and shared.
- Develop and maintain a network with others internally and externally, build relationships with team members, management, and a range of stakeholders
- The worker will participate in knowledge/skills transfer activities as part of this engagement.
