About the Role
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is seeking a Technical Specialist to join their growing Integration team. This role involves developing and promoting technical solutions to support business requirements, uplifting legacy systems, and implementing new integration technologies. The position offers a rewarding career contributing to the safety of Australians.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to stakeholders and project teams.
- Align effort to broader strategy and capability roadmaps ensuring that the AFP’s integration environment is fit-for-purpose and complements other systems and capabilities.
- Oversee integration patterns including APIs, middleware, and event-driven workflows.
- Lead technical members through demonstrations, mentoring and skills sessions where required.
Requirements
- Must be an Australian Citizen at the time of application.
- Ability to obtain a Negative Vetting 1 (Secret) security clearance.
- Contemporary knowledge and experience relevant to the role.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a like or related field.
- Relevant tertiary qualification or extensive experience and knowledge in area of expertise.
- Ability to ask the right questions and find the right solutions, to act with integrity and place the customer at the centre of everything you do.
- Passion for service excellence.
- Comfortable working independently and referring customers to other specialist team members.
- National travel may be required.
Skills
- Integration/Automation tools (e.g., IBM Cloud pack for integration, Kafka)
- Azure
- Red Hat
- Troubleshooting technical issues
- Knowledge sharing
- Mentoring
- Upskilling team members
- Creating and working with Architecture teams to create appropriate integration designs
- Making recommendations for improvement or selection of tools/techniques for use in integration solutions and upgrades
- Advising or teaching others about appropriate tools/techniques for the task at hand
- Determining actions required for professional development within the work type using identified organizational development plans
Location
- Various
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Adelaide
- Canberra
- Brisbane
- Perth
Work Type
- Ongoing Full time
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a like or related field.
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualification
Salary/Compensations
- $132,668.00 - $151,205.00
Benefits
- Six weeks (30 days) of paid annual leave per year + additional paid Christmas stand down
- 4 extra days of mandatory rest leave per year
- 18 days of paid personal leave per year
- Generous superannuation of 15.4%
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave for Primary Caregiver (and 14 weeks for Secondary Caregiver) + additional unpaid leave entitlements for up until 24 months from the child’s date of birth or placement
- Generous salaries and incremental salary progression governed by the AFP Enterprise Agreement
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements that support work-life balance
- Health & wellbeing services – with a focus on early intervention, education and prevention
- Access to ongoing training and professional development opportunities
About the Company
- The mission of the Australian Federal Police is to provide dynamic and effective law enforcement to the people of Australia.
- It provides policing throughout Australia in relation to the prevention and detection of crimes against the Commonwealth, its laws and integrity, and community police services to the Community of the ACT.
- Working for the AFP provides you with a diverse and rewarding career.
- Whether you immerse yourself in a position on the frontline, or provide critical operational or professional support, the work you do makes a big impact on the people of Australia.
Equal Opportunity
- We value the different perspectives, approaches and lived experiences of our people, and recognise that our collective intelligence and diversity is what makes us stronger.
- We encourage applications from people from all walks of life, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, First Nations people, women, the LGBTQIA+ community and people with disability.
