API Development Specialist

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.

Apply today or reach out for a confidential discussion: 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.