Senior Consultant

Job Description

If your client gave you free-range to pick your tech stack, what would you do with it What would you do if you had a new challenge every day How would you feel if you could impact people's lives through tech

Established over seventeen years ago, we are a growing Melbourne-based Software Consultancy with a core focus of delivering business-critical digital products to our clients. Our teams work alongside our customers to dissect their complex problems and convert them into value-driven solutions, combining innovative principles in development, design, analysis and quality automation. We utilise Design Thinking and Agile practices to rapidly create customer and business first software, testing and embracing new technologies and trends along the way.

Our Senior Developers become trusted advisors to our clients, working alongside other client stakeholders to ensure delivery and technical excellence. As a Fabric Senior Developer, you will lead by example and work hands-on alongside your teammates on delivery - as well as providing high-level guidance and advice to our customers.

Your key responsibilities as a Senior Consultant-Developer at Fabric:

- Work under autonomy with a self-driven attitude to own problems and deliver solutions

- Understand the complex business and technical problems, learn quickly, understand tradeoffs and communicate a solution

- Capability to research alternative solutions and propose them within given constraints

- Apply different languages and technologies to your projects while coding side by side with other developers on your team

- Implementing continuous delivery practices to accelerate the delivery of new valuable functionality to its intended users

- Applying test-driven development practices to ensure high quality of the software, and reduce future effort and cost on implementing changes to the product

- Mentoring and coaching less experienced software engineers in Fabric family and in our clients tech teams, hosting tech meetups and our community events to share your expertise with others

- Advising our clients on the right technical decisions and advocating for the right practices to use

- Being an ambassador for Fabric, promoting our values and the practices we use to make sure we build the software right

- Participate in interviewing and recruitment based on business needs

- Generate thought leadership content relevant to your role to support our marketing department in social media activities and meetups

The skills you would need to be a Senior Consultant-Developer:

- Being an expert in Java andone or more coding languages (Node.js, Typescript, React,etc.) and being comfortable with learning a new language/technology required for a new client project

- Having experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices

- Applying test-driven development practices (TDD) to your work

- Working knowledge of one of the cloud technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure, etc.

- Working knowledge of docker, terraform. Experience with kubernetes would be an advantage

- Exposure to DevOps practices (CI/CD, cloud services, containerization) is a plus.

- Being comfortable with one of the agile methodologies for organising their work

- Being flexible and ready to wear multiple hats during the project lifecycle

- Experience with API Gateway products like Kong would be a bonus

- Experience with QA automationwould be a bonus

Your key benefits of being a part of the Fabric team:

- A variety of business domains to dive into including retail, finance, construction and logistics

- Creating innovative custom products to solve complex problems that existing solutions just can't

- Collaborating with a team of top notch professionals who are obsessed with value, latest tech and the right way to build a digital product

- Ability to switch projects every 6-12 months to keep you challenged, excited and growing

- Strong support network from the delivery community of practice, leadership and our tech teams to help you address any client challenges you may face

- Very diverse and inclusive environment where people value feedback, connections and collaboration in a workspace