Join our purpose-driven team where your skills play a pivotal role in steering positive change!

• Support diverse & collaborative team of software developers,
• Take advantage of our generous remuneration benefits,
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements tailored to suit your lifestyle!

Salary range $113,448 – $131,517 plus super

With the help of over 30,000 people over 100 years, we have built, maintained, and refurbished hydropower infrastructure across Tasmania. We’re fuelling the future of energy with the power of the past, and we need skilled and reliable people to join us, to help us allow our near real-time spot trading software to thrive in an ever-changing landscape.

We support applications from all members of our community for equitable access to our employment opportunities. We are open to discussing workplace flexibility in all our vacancies, to ensure we can attract the best candidates and accommodate individual needs, differences, disabilities and working arrangements, even in ways we have not thought of. Our merit-based recruitment practices are founded on building diversity by fostering an inclusive, flexible and equitable workplace. For more information about Hydro Tasmania please visit our website www.hydro.com.au/careers 

Who are you? 

You have experience in collaboration and have a methodical mindset to deliver strategic objectives. Your experience also includes:

• Enthusiasm to learn and grow with our team,
• Strong relationship building and stakeholder engagement skills,
• Experience and/or exposure in water management, the energy market and evolutionary design would also be beneficial but not essential.

Your technical experience also includes:

• .NET (client and server), preferably WPF, SQL Server
• Software design specifically developing automate repetitive tasks including testing and deployment,
• Experience in a complex business domain.

Even if you don’t meet these criteria 100%, we still want to hear from you!

About the role: 

To put it simply, as a Software Developer at Hydro Tasmania, you will play a key role within a cross-functional scrum team working to deliver innovative market solutions to enable the business to continue powering Tasmania and Australia with renewable energy. Within this role, you will provide guidance and direction in large scale projects as well as leading your own projects including developing architecture as well as own and establish outcomes about 24/7 trading applications that support Hydro Tasmania’s position in the National Electricity Market.

As a Software Developer at Hydro Tasmania, you will:

✓ Provide functional and technical expertise to develop technical design specifications for software and database solutions

✓ Design, develop, test, and release application software and databases to agreed standards

✓ Work in an agile team delivering value in close relationship with colleagues with the use of DevOps practises

✓ Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions

✓ Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm

 More information can be found on the attached Position Description:   PD - Commercial - Software Developer - HT4 - March 2024 (1).pdf

 Haven’t convinced you yet? 

In addition to a competitive remuneration package, this role offers the unique advantage of being directly involved in contributing to key customer-focussed system enhancements for Hydro Tasmania. We value flexibility and understand this means different things to different people, so we are open to discussing what this looks like for you. We offer a range of employee perks and often have something for everyone, including generous parental leave, electricity discounts and un-debited sick leave. At Hydro Tasmania we also strongly support career development opportunities, and while this can look different for everyone as well, we will work with you to support the pathways at Hydro Tasmania you want to explore!

As an endorsed employer for women, we have benefits and policies on our Work180 page – check it out here: www.work180.com/en-au/for-women/employer/hydro-tasmania  

Let’s get applying! 

Attach your resume and a cover letter outlining what skills and experience you can bring to this role as well as tell us a bit about who you are to help us get to know you! We will be running an agile recruitment process and will engage with suitable candidates as soon we have reviewed their applications.  

Recruitment agencies: we respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.