The Role:
The government department has multiple requirements for Program Managers to manage the delivery of inflight and upcoming transformation within a Division.

The division provides economic analysis, data and research to inform policy and decision-making in Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors. They have capabilities in the fields of economics, science, and social science. Issues they are currently engaged with include understanding the drivers of agricultural output, climate change, biosecurity, trade and sustainability. Their mission is to develop an inclusive, collaborative and innovative culture as they produce high quality analysis and research on current and emerging issues.

The division is in the early stages of a major digital transformation program working to modernise all aspects of business operations and their supporting systems.

The successful candidates are expected to have:

• Program Management (or 5+ Project Management) experience in the management and delivery of an ICT Program or multiple projects.
• Ability to use, adapt, and work across various delivery methodologies (such as waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Significant experience working with and influencing internal and external stakeholders and partners to plan and successfully deliver programs and projects within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Experience in building and promoting program vision and developing a collaborative team culture and approach to delivery of program objectives and benefits.
• Experience in developing and presenting Board papers and briefing materials for SES audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with program governance, including planning, financials, reporting, risks and issues, dependency management, etc.
• Experience with Federal Government procurement processes to successfully engage and manage 3rd party vendors.
• High level interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present and communicate information and expectations to stakeholders at all levels.
• Personal resilience and flexibility to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities to successfully deliver under pressure within a challenging environment.

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Program (or 5+ years Project) Management experience in delivery of a large and/or complex ICT Program(s).
• Demonstrated experience working with and influencing internal and external stakeholders and partners to plan and successfully deliver programs and projects within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Demonstrated experience with program governance, including planning, financials, reporting, risks and issues, dependency management, etc.
• Ability to use, adapt, and work across various delivery methodologies to successfully deliver program outcomes (such as waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Experience with Federal Government procurement processes to successfully engage and manage 3rd party vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead several multi-disciplinary teams to effectively deliver results and positively respond to change.
• Ability to build and promote program vision and to develop a collaborative team culture.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and manage third-party vendors and contracts to ensure successful delivery of requirements.
• Well-developed communication skills.
• Experience in developing and presenting Board papers and briefing materials SES audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and liaise effectively with various stakeholders.
• Demonstrated personal resilience and flexibility to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities to successfully deliver under pressure within a challenging environment
• Experience working in Federal Government agencies, Project Management qualifications and certification are highly desirable.
• Agile project delivery and related tools are highly desirable: Scrum Master experience and/or qualifications, SAFe Agile, Microsoft Azure DevOps / JIRA Knowledge of Essential Eight, ISM, and Security Maturity requirements will be highly regarded.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• 12 month contracting role, 2 x 12 month extensions
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.
• Below the line role

If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0482 074 845

The Role:
A division in the Department is looking for Azure Platform Engineers who have experience in managing cloud hosted infrastructure using infrastructure as code in support of data and analytics workloads.

The roles will be responsible for the detailed solution design, development, and implementation of infrastructure in Azure in support of data and analytics workloads. These outcomes are delivered using an infrastructure as code deployment model using Terraform.

The successful candidates will have experience with the following platforms and technology:
1. Azure Cloud

• Azure hosted Data and Analytics Platforms such as:
  • Data Lake
  • SQL Databases
  • Azure Databricks
  • Synapse Analytics
• Azure security features such as:
  • Networking
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Policy

2. Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform based infrastructure management
• Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines

3. Infrastructure as a Service hosted platforms

• ArcGIS Enterprise
• Virtual Machine hosted services

4. Desirable: Experience with legacy data technology solutions – Oracle, Ingres, SQL Server, Wintel Server Network file shares

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Experience designing, building and maintaining cloud hosted platforms and services (Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service)
• Experience developing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure using an infrastructure as code (IaC) approach
• Understanding of cloud security features for platforms and services such as Identity and Access Management, Networking and Policy
• Experience working in Data and Analytics focused projects (Data Engineering, Storage or Data Science)
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams using an Agile methodology

Desirable criteria

• Experience working with Data Lake
• Experience working with Geospatial platforms

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• 12 month contracting role, 2 x 12 month extensions
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.
• Below the line role

The Role:
The Scrum Master will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to: 

• Facilitating sprint planning, backlog preparation, refinement and prioritisation, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives. 
• Identifying risks and issues and advising the Program Manager of any significant risks to delivery. 
• Managing and working closely with the agile team and a large number of stakeholders. 
• Coaching and transferring knowledge within the agency and agile teams. 

The Scrum Master will be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to: 

• Program Increment (PI) Plans and Sprint Plans. 
• Test Plans, Risk and Issues logs. 
• Reports related to delivery performance and governance. 
• Delivery Framework, Guidance, ‘How To’, and presentations as necessary 

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Scrum Master within a SAFe or agile environment and a current SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) certification or equivalent.
• Demonstrated evidence of ability to champion adherence to consistent application of the agile practices.
• Proven experience identifying an Agile team’s gaps in agile and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on agile values and principles.
• Proven experience writing Epics, Features and User Stories with acceptance criteria and breaking down into smaller tasks as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, inspire and motivate people to change their mind set and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like Executive Sponsor, program/project managers, line managers) to become servant leaders and to empower people to adopt agile.
• Proven experience creating velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down) using either Agile project management software.

Desirable criteria:

• Ability to coach staff (including Scrum Team, Executive Sponsor, Project/Program Manager/s and key stakeholders) on the correct way to interpret metrics for the Scrum’s performance, progress of work and agility maturity.
• Exposure to Agile practices such as Extreme Programming (XP) techniques e.g. Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ability to coach, develop and empower individuals in emotional intelligence; how to handle and resolve conflict; and how to give constructive feedback to form high performing, self-organising teams. Experience regarding the facilitation and execution of Sprint Retrospective and Showcase formats.

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• 11 month contracting role, 1 extension of 12 months
• A fun, collaborative and productive team.
• Remote arrangement possible
• Below the line role

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0485 835 307

• oversee the data management process including loading, creating,
  maintaining, and distributing data
• set direction by contributing and aligning to local business plans and
  ICT strategies
• oversee the management of globally controlled data elements and
  assets
• support and drive architectural decisions in alignment with architecture
  principles
• drive innovation, continuous improvement, and manage and lead
  change
• provide detailed, specialist technical advice, including strategic advice
  to the Executive
• identify and monitor risks, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate
  issues as appropriate

The Candidate:
Essential criteria

• Sufficient experience in similar roles
• Experience working for government departments
• Eligibility for security clearance

What the role offers:

• Up to $2000/day contracting rate for the right candidate
• A fun, collaborative and productive team
• Below the line role

If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0485 835 307