Classification: Senior Officer Grade C
Salary: $127,597 - $136,873 plus superannuation
Position No: 71382
Directorate: Digital Canberra
Advertised (Gazettal date): 26 June 2026
Contact Officer: Tulio Losanno on [email protected] or (02) 6207 7290
Details: Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That’s what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use. Join Digital Canberra and help deliver smart, secure, and seamless digital services that improve the people that live and work in our beautiful city and surrounding area.
At Digital Canberra, you’ll work with passionate technologists, policy experts, and designers to build and sustain services that matter. We value curiosity, collaboration, and creativity, and we’re committed to helping you grow.
Summary of Role:
Are you someone who wants to make a difference in shaping the way ACT government designs its services to meet the needs of the community? Do you enjoy working with people and looking for opportunities to make things easier for citizens and more efficient for government?
ACT Digital Branch is responsible for driving the ACT’s digital service delivery agenda to make it easier and more convenient for citizens and businesses to connect and do business with government. Our approach includes facilitating end to end design and delivery within multi-disciplinary teams, with a focus on improving the user experience and creating change that benefits government, business and the community.
A typical day will include:
-
Data flow analysis and functional specifications:
Engage with stakeholders to capture and define the integration data flows along with associated functional and nonfunctional specifications.
-
Build and deploy integrations:
Using the Data flow analysis, functional specifications, and overarching integration design: Develop and code, secure and robust integration modules on MuleSoft’s Anypoint platform.
Act as a technical lead and subject matter expert to capture business and technical requirements, ensuring delivered solutions are aligned and fit for purpose.
Provide quality assurance across the team, directorates, and third-party developers to ensure solutions delivered by Digital Canberra and/or external partners are fit for purpose and can be effectively supported within our environment.
Within the team and as part of the larger community, promote current standards and policies. This includes uplifting the maturity of services offered and establishing the right policies and guidance to allow others - such as directorates and third-party developers to create high-quality solutions. This enables a hub-and-spoke approach to the development of a best practice integration practice. The role will also facilitate and participate in the API Community of practice.
This position may be required to participate in an after hours support roster. Likely on a monthly basis.
As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.
Note: The position requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and possess, or acquire and maintain a security clearance at the AGSVA Baseline Clearance level as an eligibility qualification for the position. If screening is not successful, your employment will not commence or, if already commenced, your employment will be reassessed.
Refer to the Position Description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the Position Description.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Eligibility/Other Requirements: The successful applicant must be an Australian citizen and possess or acquire and maintain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) security clearance at the Baseline level as an eligibility qualification. If AGSVA screening is not successful, your employment will not commence or, if already commenced, your employment will be reassessed.
Notes: This is a temporary position available immediately until June 2027 with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Please note, this position will be moving to a new workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.
Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times. The successful applicant must be an Australian citizen and possess or acquire and maintain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) security clearance at the Baseline level as an eligibility qualification. If AGSVA screening is not successful, your employment will not commence or, if already commenced, your employment will be reassessed.
How to Apply:
Please review the Position Description and submit the following;
-
A two-page pitch that tells the selection committee about your ability to perform the advertised role. The pitch should demonstrate that you possess the capabilities detailed in the “What You Require” section of the Position Description.
-
A current curriculum vitae including contact details for two referees.
Apply now to join us in making a difference!
Applications should be submitted .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.
The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.
#LI-DNI
This is a temporary position available immediately until June 2027 with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.
