P21/478 - 1 x Senior Software Engineer

⁠⁠⁠The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is Australia's national criminal intelligence agency. We advise senior decision makers on serious and organised crime. We are a full member of the National Intelligence Community, a Department of Home Affairs portfolio agency, and a member of the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group.

The ACIC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be deployed within the Engineering Services Section / Business Delivery Branch. The contractor will perform a number of key functions which include:

• Providing critical support to the Speech to Text Managed Activity
• Maintaining and developing improvements to the current software delivery pipeline – including improvements to automated testing, software builds, software deployments, and application observability
• Additional capacity to support project and Business-As-Usual (BAU) activities within the National Police Information and Intelligence and Corporate Service lines as required.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Leading or participating in small teams to deliver improvements to the Business Systems Delivery Branch software delivery pipeline and to the building and maintenance of application environments to improve software quality and efficiency of delivery
• Leading or participating in small teams focussed on developing or updating software to meet changing ACIC business needs
• Providing ongoing production support to existing systems including high level problem resolution
• Providing advice using extensive software engineering knowledge and skills to support project delivery and business as usual work
• Critique software solution designs with a focus on usability, testability, maintainability, resilience, security, and performance. In particular enhance existing systems in response to production issues, technical debt repayments, and changing business requirements
• Improve the observability of deployed software to improve capacity planning, incident response, and problem resolution
• Developing comprehensive documentation and performing testing to demonstrate built software and support successful system implementations
• Where appropriate, coaching software engineers to transfer skills and knowledge
• Liaising with a range of service providers to support third party developed software systems and software services
• Coordination of technical resources and working with project managers to drive the delivery of technical solutions and outcomes
• Being accountable to the Practice Lead to ensure team outputs meet ACIC standards.