Senior Software Engineer – Java / APIs / FHIR

Location: Brisbane or Canberra
Contract: 12 months with possible extensions
Mandatory: Australian Citizenship and able to obtain and maintain a Baseline clearance.

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Software Engineer to contribute to a complex Government environment delivering secure, scalable API services that integrate with a broad range of internal and external systems.

You will work within a highly regulated technology environment supporting a sophisticated API Gateway and associated security, integration, platform, data, monitoring and DevSecOps capabilities.

This role will suit an experienced consulting engineer who is comfortable working across the full software development lifecycle and has strong experience with Java, REST APIs and contemporary development practices .

The Role

What You’ll Be Doing

Designing and developing secure RESTful APIs using Java
Building healthcare APIs aligned with HL7 FHIR
Supporting integration across complex clinical and administrative systems
Implementing API authentication and authorisation using OAuth 2.0
Developing automated and end-to-end API testing
Working with containerised applications, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps practices
Supporting logging, monitoring, privacy and auditability requirements
Collaborating on integration, data mapping and transformation
Supporting production-ready solutions throughout the application lifecycle

Mandatory Skills & Experience

We are looking for demonstrated commercial experience across:

Java
REST API development
HL7 FHIR
Healthcare applications or healthcare technology environments
API and application testing, including REST, performance and unit testing
OAuth
Containerisation and an understanding of end-to-end container delivery
CI/CD pipelines
Privacy, auditing and logging
DevOps / GitOps practices
End-to-end testing

Eligibility & Security Requirements

Australian Citizenship is mandatory.
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance , with the ability to obtain and maintain a higher clearance if required.
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a National Police Check .

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to work on technically complex initiatives where API interoperability, security, privacy and reliability are critical.

If you’re an experienced Java/API engineer with HL7 FHIR and healthcare technology experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Katrina Gabriel | 0489 923 756 | katrinag@whizdom.com.au

Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.

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