Senior OpenText Exstream Software Engineer (Developer)

# Senior OpenText Exstream Software Engineer (Developer)Job Reference: Government ClientBaseline RequiredAustralian CitizenServices AustraliaQLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SAContractCloses 12/11/2026OpenText ExstreamStreamServeDocument DesignContent AuthoringVariable Data PrintingData MappingXMLJSONSystems IntegrationAutomated TestingManual TestingContinuous IntegrationShare About the RoleCustomer correspondence development: design, develop, configure and maintain customer correspondence solutions using OpenText Exstream and/or StreamServe; translate business and legislative requirements into structured document designs; develop and maintain reusable components, scripts and rules.

Integration: integrate document solutions with enterprise systems and output services.

Operations: troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to data, formatting and performance. Quality and release: support unit, system and user acceptance testing; contribute to release management and deployment. Documentation and compliance: maintain technical documentation and design artefacts; ensure compliance with APS security, privacy and accessibility requirements; collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders. Technical leadership of software construction, design and quality.

Key Responsibilities:• Hands-on OpenText Exstream and/or StreamServe developer: document design, content authoring and business content authoring.• Document generation, templates and variable data printing (essential).• Data mapping for XML, delimited, columnar and JSON driver files, reference files and reports; complex data-driven tables.• Turns business and legislative requirements into structured correspondence designs with reusable components, scripts and rules.• Integrates document solutions with enterprise systems and output services; resolves production data, formatting and performance issues.• Leads design, construction, testing and release of correspondence software; maintains documentation.• APS security, privacy and accessibility compliance.• MUST HOLD an active Baseline security clearance (Australian citizens only).

About the ClientFederal government agency delivering social and health-related payments and services. RequirementsEssential CriteriaYour response must demonstrate experience against each of the following:1. Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.2. Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.

Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.3. Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities.

Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.4. Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews.

Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.5. Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security.

Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.6. Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs.

Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.7. Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.

Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.8. Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques.

Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.9. Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action.

Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.10. Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage.

Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others. Desirable Criteria• Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction. Interested in this role? Submit your application today.