Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Developer)
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1)
Duration: Initial 12 months with extensions up to a maximum of 24 months
Industry: Information Technology
Functional Expertise: Software Engineering
Sub-functional Expertise: Oracle Fusion Middleware Development
Location of work: ACT
Working arrangements: Hybrid. The successful candidate is required to work onsite full-time for the first 6 weeks. A hybrid flexible working arrangement may then be considered, provided their residential address is within reasonable travel time and distance of the work location to attend onsite in emergencies or where required for business purposes.
Closing date: 9AM Friday, 25 September 2026
Description:
Our client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Developer) with Oracle Fusion Middleware expertise to design and develop high-quality solutions supporting complex business and technical requirements.
The successful candidate will undertake analysis, design, development, prototyping, testing and maintenance while providing technical leadership and specialist advice. The role requires considerable independence and may involve responsibility for, or contribution to, the management of a software engineering team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform and manage analysis, design, development, prototyping, unit testing and maintenance activities.
- Solve highly complex problems and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Perform high-level analysis of technical requirements to support project evaluation with proposed solutions.
- Undertake technical design and development of highly complex custom solutions and/or standard conversion and migration solutions.
- Manage releases and ensure go-live production support and maintenance for the team's developments.
- Proactively share knowledge and expertise as a subject matter expert and mentor less experienced colleagues.
- Ensure compliance with endorsed software development methodologies.
- Support development teams to ensure high-quality custom solution realisation.
- Lead and manage team operations, including work priorities and resource management.
- Maintain and support existing systems and technology for day-to-day operations.
- Report on business outcomes, key performance indicators and quality assurance.
- Prepare and review technical and corporate documentation.
- Provide detailed specialist technical advice to senior executives where appropriate.
- Monitor and manage work output and quality against established performance standards.
- Attend interagency meetings and forums to influence business outcomes and share information.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience as an Oracle Fusion Middleware development specialist, including development in Oracle Fusion Middleware services.
- Experience building integration services for systems such as Siebel, SAP, OPA, IDM and/or ADFS.
- Applied experience with Oracle SOA Suite 12C, Oracle Service Bus, BPEL, Mediator, Oracle Web Service Manager, Oracle API Gateway/IBM Data Power and JDeveloper.
- Experience with Web Services, WSDL/WADL, SOAP, XSLT, XQUERY, XML, REST/JSON and Java.
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS 12c and PL/SQL development.
- Proven experience designing and documenting WSDL/WADL (SOAP/REST) based services, including preparing Service Contract and Interface Mapping documents and applying standards and best practice patterns.
- Sound experience configuring and hosting services in Web Logic Server, Oracle API Gateway and/or IBM Data Power.
Key Capabilities:
- SOA
- OSB
- BPEL
- Web Services
- Oracle Fusion Middleware development
- Software engineering and technical leadership
- Systems integration and development
- Release, production support and maintenance
Essential Criteria:
- 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.
- 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.
- Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA) 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Software design: Level 4 (SFIA) 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 recommends 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.
- Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA) 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.
- Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA) 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.
- 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.
- Testing: Level 4 (SFIA) 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.
Desirable Criteria:
- Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA) 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.
How to apply:
Please submit your application including your resume and a completed application form addressing the essential and desirable criteria. Ensure your application highlights your experience and any relevant certifications.