Department of Education - Melbourne, VIC ITSource: u Workin JOB DESCRIPTION This role involves developing, configuring, and customising Service Now solutions to meet business needs.
Key responsibilities include writing clean, efficient code, reviewing work by junior developers, participating in requirements workshops, handling backlog tasks in development sprints, maintaining technical documentation, and supporting Service Now applications.
About the Department The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives.
It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.
About the Division The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) guides the Departments' digital capability and is leading digital transformation for the Department including Victorian government schools.
The Division architects, manages and supports the largest technology network in Victoria, supporting a user base of approximately 750,000 staff and students.
IMTD provides innovation and leadership in the transformation and management of the Department's digital capability through the implementation of solutions on the department's cloud environment (Iaa S), enterprise cloud platforms (Paa S) and software (Saa S), using agile practices with a focus on user experience, security, and integration.
As a valued member of the diverse IMTD team, you will have the opportunity to be part of influencing the new way of working for the department through your strong technical skills and customer centric approach.
This role is in the Digital Design and Innovation Branch.
About the Role This role is to develop, configure and customise Service Now solutions to fit business requirements.
Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code including reviewing the code produced by less experienced developers.
The role will also take part in requirements gathering workshops, estimation, addressing the agile product backlog through development sprints and delivery and maintenance of technical documentation.
In this role, you will also contribute to support applications built on the Service Now platform.
Key responsibilities include: Designing and developing Service Now solutions from inception to ready for business use in production.
Upholding architecture, design and implementation principles including configuration management and coding practices.
Collaborating with business stakeholders, architects, developers and functional analysts on functional and technical requirements.
Providing estimates for the scope of work, discussing options and recommending solutions.
Reviewing code and run initiatives to improve the overall health of the platform.
Reviewing Service Now family releases and identify new features that can be enabled for the business Attributes To be successful in this Senior Software Developer role you will be able to demonstrate your skills and experience across the following capabilities.
Personal Attributes - flexibility and adaptability with systems and processes.
Ability to work collaboratively with others and identifies ways to overcome barriers.
Meaningful Outcomes - system thinker who diagnoses trend and coaches' others to solve problems and create solutions.
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Enabling Delivery - considers how to derive value from collection of data to enable immediate and future decision making.
Obtains a balance between technology and strategy in the delivery lifecycle.
Authentic Relationships - can influence and persuade in getting agreement to proposals and ideas to achieve an outcome.
Builds strong relationships with stakeholders to have a mutually beneficial partnership.
People Leadership - Seen a leader who lives the VPS values and performance standards.
Helps others improve skills through providing constructive feedback and coaching, always willing help others and learn.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience We are looking for someone who looking for that next step in their career as a Salesforce developer, looking to work in a team that will provide opportunities to learn and grow.
Essential : Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Essential: Service Now Platform Administrator Certification Desirable: 3+ years' experience as a Service Now developer Essential : Service Now Platform Developer Certification Further Information For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at .
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Leon Hookens -Squad Lead Service Now via (03) 8688 7929 or Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks.
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