Strategic Technical Delivery
- Lead and deliver priority projects independently with minimal oversight, ensuring timely completion while maintaining quality standards
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance project timelines, scope, budget constraints, and long-term sustainability
- Navigate complex modernisation efforts involving legacy systems (Java, Appian, OutSystems, Pega Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics)
- Identify and manage critical technical dependencies early in project lifecycles, ensuring stakeholders understand constraints and impacts on delivery timelines
Technical Expertise
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated progression in technical complexity and scope
- Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices
- Experience with modern tech stacks relevant to government systems (e.g., Java, Salesforce, Kotlin, cloud platforms like GCC/AWS)
- Proven ability to work with both greenfield development and brownfield modernisation projects
- Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability
Strategic & Leadership Capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining alignment with broader organisational goals
- Track record of making pragmatic technical decisions that consider business constraints, timelines, and long-term sustainability
- Experience contributing to technical strategy beyond immediate project boundaries — establishing standards, creating reusable components, or building shared infrastructure
- Ability to articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Evidence of knowledge sharing through documentation, mentorship, or establishing practices that enable other teams
Problem-Solving & Execution
- Strong analytical skills with evidence-based problem-solving approach backed by testing and validation
- Ability to identify root causes beyond surface-level symptoms (e.g., database indexing issues masked as front-end performance problems)
- Proactive in identifying technical dependencies, risks, and constraints early in project lifecycles
- Comfortable working within government constraints (security requirements, compliance needs, data sovereignty) while finding pragmatic solutions
