Australian Bureau of Statistics Hiring for Developer (APS5/6), Pega Team Job at Belconnen, Australia Full Time

• Location: Canberra, Melbourne or Brisbane Office
• APS Level 5 ($75,200 – $84,468) APS Level 6 ($84,476 – $95,401) depending on experience
• Contact: Xibo Li on 02 62525507

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is seeking highly motivated Developer for a role within our Pega Team.

The position is at the APS 5 or 6 classification level and a permanent role. The successful applicants can work from either of our Canberra, Melbourne, or Brisbane offices.

About the business area

The Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) section within TSD provides critical development and support for the ABS’s data acquisition function. We strive to deliver solutions that support the ABS enterprise strategy and its objectives to create a modern customer-focused and data-centric acquisition capability. Includes solutions in:

• Online surveys
• administrative data acquisition
• telephone, video and face to face interviewing
• customer/case management
• interviewer management and support
• sample management
• identity management and self service

About the role

The developer role within the Pega team contributes to development and support for the Pega platform. Responsibilities include:

Development

Liaise with clients and other stakeholders to fully understand business needs.
Design and implement solutions to best meet functional/non-functional needs, applying best practices suitable for the solution context, and the surrounding data acquisition architecture.

Support

Actively monitor and respond to production incidents and problems, applying ITSM good practices as per TSD standards.
Seek opportunities for continual improvement of application health.
Undertake environment hygiene activities such as application and infrastructure upgrades, to ensure ongoing health of the solution.

Relationship management

Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (including vendors), leveraging their expertise to resolve critical issues and make informed design and implementation decisions.

Team participation

Support and collaborate with other team members, assisting with adoption of good practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
Contribute to general team health by actively participating in all agreed team ceremonies and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the team context.

The technologies you will be working with are:

• Pega 8.x on-premise
• Oracle
• CI / CD supporting technologies – Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, JIRA, Git
• Underlying server technologies – JBOSS EAP, RHEL
• ITSM technologies – ServiceNow, Dynatrace.

What we are looking for (selection criteria)

To be suitable you should have most or all of the following skills, qualities and experience:

• Applications development and support experience within an enterprise context. Proficient in some, or all, of the listed technologies
• ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders and nurture positive working relationships
• well-developed communication skills
• team engagement and collaboration skills
• technical coaching/mentoring skills are required to be considered for an APS6 engagement
• qualifications in a relevant ICT discipline or equivalent additional industry experience
• well-developed analytical thinking and problem solving skills
• experienced and proficient with Agile delivery.

How to apply and further information

You will need to upload your current resume (no longer than two pages), provide referee details and respond to the following:

In no more than 300 words, provide an example of how you have led and/or collaborated with your team and surrounding stakeholders to deliver a complex or innovative solution using your development skills, including the outcome.

For further information about this position, please contact: Xibo Li on 02 62525507.

For other questions contact National Recruitment at recruitment@abs.gov.au or 1800 249 583.

Applications close at 11:30 p.m. AEDT on Wednesday 9th February 2022. Late applications will not be accepted.