ASD 6 & EL1 Software Developer

at  Australian Signals Directorate ASD

• Total Salary Package: $93,806.96 - $$133,322.80 (plus 15.4% super)
• Brisbane CBD - QLD,Canberra - ACT,Melbourne CBD - VIC,Perth CBD - WA

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

ASD is looking for experienced software developers who are highly proactive and creative in nature to:

• Engage and communicate with stakeholders to identify, respond and provide advice on issues to achieve work unit outcomes.
• Provide advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adhere to security policies, and development benchmark and standards.
• Share information, monitor work practices, set work priorities and develop local procedures.
• Conducts peer review of code and development task against quality standards.
• Documents and shares lessons leant on software development, configuration, management and integrations.

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THE ROLE

ASD has a wide variety of Software Developer roles on offer. These roles offer exciting, challenging and interesting work across all groups in ASD. We are seeking people who want to be at the forefront of innovation and want to work alongside experts in a wide variety of fields.
We are seeking applicants with a range of experience – from graduates to seasoned professionals – who are motivated to develop and learn new skills, work collaboratively to solve complex and interesting problems, and contribute to capabilities that have real-world impact.

ASD’s software developers typically work in multi-disciplinary teams responsible for the design and development of capabilities that meet ASD’s mission needs. Activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying, creating and applying software development and security standards
• Planning and designing software components
• Estimating time and effort required for software development, constructing, amending and verifying software components
• Applying test-driven development and ensuring appropriate test coverage
• Using peer review techniques – such as programming documenting software components
• Understanding and obtaining agreement to the value of the software components to be developed
• Selecting appropriate development methods and life cycles; applying recovery techniques to ensure the software being developed is not lost
• Implementing appropriate change control to software development practices.
• Resolving operational problems with software and fixing bugs.

Depending on requirements and the characteristics of the project or assigned work – software development methods and life cycles can be predictive (plan-driven_ approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.