Senior Developer in Canberra

The City and Environment directorate is seeking an experienced Salesforce Developer to join the Digital Platform team. The team designs, develops declarative configuration, and administrative best practices to enable reliable, maintainable, and efficient delivery while maintaining platform stability and data integrity.

This position plays a key role in delivering high-quality Salesforce capabilities by developing customised solutions, managing configuration and metadata, supporting deployments, and ensuring changes are implemented in line with agreed quality, risk, and platform standards. The role works closely with delivery teams, solution architects, technical leads, testers, vendor partners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective Salesforce solutions and support successful delivery in a fast‑paced, enterprise environment.

This role provides subject matter expertise across Salesforce development, declarative configuration, and administrative best practices to enable reliable, maintainable, and efficient delivery while maintaining platform stability and data integrity.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Salesforce codes through various agile stages.

Note: This is a temporary position available immediately until 30 June 2027. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. This position is located in a workplace designated for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service. Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved.