Django Developer

Role: Django Developer

Duration: 6 months (possible extension)

Start date: Asap

Location: Sydney (2 days in office and 3 days remote)

Max daily rate that we can pay : AU$ 575 /day and consider 150K all-inclusive for FTC

Role Summary

The developer must have strong hands-on experience in Django, with demonstrated capability in designing, developing, integrating, testing and supporting Django-based applications. Experience working in Linux environments and using Docker for local development is also required. Django experience is the primary requirement.

• Review business and technical requirements, assess the existing solution and identify technical gaps, risks, dependencies and implementation considerations.

• Develop technical designs covering application components, data structures, interfaces, security controls and alignment with organisational standards.

• Configure existing functionality and develop approved enhancements in accordance with agreed coding, security and accessibility standards.

• Develop and support system interfaces, including data mappings, validation, error handling, reconciliation and integration testing.

• Support approved data migration, transformation, validation and reconciliation while maintaining data quality, integrity, privacy and security.

• Apply secure development practices, support technical governance assessments and address security or compliance findings within scope.

• Prepare and execute technical testing, support user acceptance testing, resolve defects and provide test evidence.

• Support deployments across environments and prepare deployment, configuration and rollback instructions in line with approved release processes.

• Maintain technical designs, configuration details, interface specifications, operational procedures and troubleshooting documentation.

• Support application environments, configuration settings and deployment pipelines

• Diagnose and resolve technical defects and incidents within agreed timeframes and provide root-cause analysis for significant issues.

• Transfer technical knowledge through documentation, walkthroughs and training to ensure internal teams can support and maintain the solution.

• Support go-live, production stabilisation, hypercare, lessons learned and transition to business-as-usual support.