DRIVES Tech Lead - Vehicle

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DRIVES Tech Lead - Vehicle

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Information & Communication Technology

Job location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150

Job reference number: 107251

Employment type: Fixed Term Full-Time

Salary range: $163145.0-$182721.0

You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.

You have the opportunity to gain a wealth of expertise and a diverse range of skills, providing insight and knowledge without losing sight of your work-life balance or wellbeing.

In this role, you'll:

Transport for NSW is seeking five experienced DRIVES Tech Leads to play a key role in the delivery, support, and ongoing evolution of the DRIVES Vehicle platform, one of the organisation's most critical regulatory technology environments.

These are fixed-term contract opportunities through to 30 June 2030, offering the opportunity to contribute to long-term digital transformation initiatives that support vehicle registration, compliance, and regulatory services across NSW.

As a DRIVES Tech Lead, you will provide technical leadership across software development, application support, and continuous improvement activities, ensuring solutions remain reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

Working within a complex and highly integrated environment, you will lead technical delivery across the full software development lifecycle, partnering with business stakeholders, architects, developers, testers, and delivery teams to deliver high-quality technology solutions.

You will:

• Provide technical leadership and expertise across software delivery and production support activities.
• Lead the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of applications supporting the DRIVES Vehicle platform.
• Translate functional and non-functional business requirements into robust technical designs and system specifications.
• Drive software quality through development standards, design reviews, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Conduct verification, debugging, testing, and issue resolution activities to ensure stable and reliable software performance.
• Support application releases, deployments, upgrades, and ongoing system enhancements.
• Maintain system documentation, defect tracking, and technical artefacts to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Provide technical advice and support to a broad range of business and technology stakeholders.
• Mentor team members and contribute to technical capability uplift across the broader team.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve existing systems, platforms, and delivery approaches.

This role offers the opportunity to work on technology platforms that directly support licensing, vehicle registration, compliance, and regulatory services relied upon by millions of people across NSW.

You are an experienced Technical Lead, Senior Developer, Lead Engineer, or Application Specialist with a strong track record delivering enterprise software solutions within large and complex organisations.

You combine strong technical capability with leadership skills and are comfortable operating across both project delivery and operational support environments.

Should have strong experience in GEN model driven development, including analysis, design, construction, and regeneration of GEN components. They must be comfortable working with hybrid cloud and supporting legacy modernisation initiatives.

The role requires solid capability in system integration, including APIs, MQ, SOAP/REST services, and collaboration with Java, Integration and Salesforce teams.

Candidates should demonstrate strong analysis and troubleshooting skills, including reviewing GEN models, resolving defects, and interpreting generated code. Experience with release processes, build pipelines, and migration of GEN components across environments is important.

You must be able to work effectively with business analysts, testers, and integration teams, ideally within Agile or hybrid delivery environments. Typical profiles include 5–15+ years in enterprise or government systems using Broadcom CA GEN, with complementary skills in SQL, SQR, Java and Salesforce.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience delivering software solutions and technology projects within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience across the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Proven technical leadership capability, including mentoring developers and influencing technical outcomes.
• Experience translating business requirements into effective software solutions and technical specifications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience resolving complex technical challenges.
• Experience supporting production applications, releases, upgrades, and ongoing platform enhancements.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• A commitment to technical excellence, continuous improvement, and customer-focused outcomes.

You thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities evolve and delivery outcomes matter. You enjoy solving complex technical problems and working collaboratively with teams to deliver high-quality solutions that support critical services across Transport for NSW.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. Ifyou’dlike further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

This is an Aboriginal-identified role as it involves the development and delivery of services and programs which impact or require liaison with Aboriginal people and/or communities. Our Aboriginal Employment Unit (AEU), run by a team of Aboriginal employees, is available to support current and prospective employees. For more information, email the AEU team at Aboriginal.Employment@transport.nsw.gov.au

Applications close 11:59 PM on Thursday, 24 September 2026

For more information about this role, please contact LEXI.ROWLANDS@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

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Transport acknowledges the Aboriginal people of the country on which we work, their traditions, culture and a shared history and identity. We also pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise the continued connection to country.

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