Midrange .Net Delphi Software Engineer
NewServices Australia
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting 1
Australian Citizenship Required?: Yes
Contract Length (months): 12
Contract Extension (months): 24
Job details
- Software Engineers also known as Senior Developers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.
- A Midrange .NET & Delphi Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications using both the Microsoft .NET framework (primarily C# or VB.NET) and Delphi. This hybrid role often involves modernizing legacy Delphi systems, integrating them with newer .NET solutions, and ensuring smooth interoperability between platforms.
Key duties and responsibilities
Key duties may include some or all of the following:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain applications in Delphi and .NET (C#/VB.NET).
- Migrate and refactor legacy Delphi code to modern .NET architectures where applicable.
- Implement ASP.NET MVC/Web API solutions for web-based components
- Collaborate with business analysts, testers, and other developers to deliver high-quality software.
- Optimise application performance, troubleshoot issues, and apply bug fixes.
- Maintain clean, well-documented, and testable code.
- Work with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, InterBase, Firebird).
- Participate in code reviews and follow best practices for secure, scalable development
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Good communication skills for liaising with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability to work with both legacy and modern technologies.
Technical skills
• Proficiency in Delphi (Object Pascal) for desktop application development. • Strong knowledge of .NET Framework / .NET Core (C# or VB.NET). • Experience with ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and RESTful services. • Solid understanding of OOP principles and design patterns (e.g., MVC, MVVM). • Database design and SQL scripting skills (SQL Server, InterBase, Firebird). • Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN) • Knowledge of integration techniques between Delphi and .NET application
About the organisation
Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery. It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives
Criteria
The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.
Essential criteria
Methods and tools: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools. Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.
Programming/software development: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools and techniques. Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
Release and deployment: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Assesses and analyses release components for input to release scheduling. Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration. Maintains release processes and procedures.
Software configuration: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Designs, verifies, documents, amends and refactors complex software configurations for deployment. Contributes to the selection of the software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
Software design: Level 3 (SFIA)
- Undertakes complete design of moderately complex software applications or components. Applies agreed standards, guidelines, patterns and tools. Assists as part of a team in the design of components of larger software systems. Specifies user and/or system interfaces. Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders’ concerns and to handle functional and non-functional requirements. Assists in the evaluation of options and trade-offs. Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.
Systems design: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders. Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
Systems integration and build: Level 4 (SFIA)
- Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing. Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. Defines complex/new integration builds. Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured. Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build. Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system. Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
Testing: Level 3 (SFIA)
- Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes. Participates in requirement, design and specification reviews, and uses this information to design test plans and test conditions. Applies agreed standards to specify and perform manual and automated testing. Automates testing tasks and builds test coverage through existing or new infrastructure. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks.
Desirable criteria
Application support: Level 3 (SFIA)
- Follows agreed procedures to identify and resolve issues with applications. Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics. Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
