Royal Agricultural Society of NSW Hiring for Graduate/Junior Software Developer Job at Sydney Full Time

Some of our great benefits:

• • • Sydney Royal Easter Show complimentary tickets and meals
    • Staff draws to win tickets to Sydney Showground events
    • 15% Staff discount at onsite cafe ‘Uptown Charlies’
    • Free Onsite Parking
    • Work lifestyle flexibility
    • Staff engagement events & wellness programs

Seeking a graduate/junior Software Developer to assist and provide IT solutions for the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW.

About the role

We have a great opportunity for a recently graduated or junior Software Developer to join our IT team. RAS is currently developing a Competition Administration System (CAS) to assist in the configuration, management and reporting of the multiple competitions held during the Sydney Royal Easter Show and throughout the year. This position will be a maximum term contract until October to help deliver this project.

Working in a collaborative project team environment, you will be able to assess business requirements, design, develop and deliver a solution frequently through a structured development lifecycle within an agreed timeframe.

In this role you will demonstrate continuous attention to technical excellence, able to design and configure systems testing, foster a close working relationship with stakeholders and provide a superior service. You will also actively participate in sprint reviews and retrospectives, offer insight into the development lifecycle and instigate agreed improvement actions.

Key responsibilities for this role are:

• Contributing to the design and technical development of application solutions
• Analysing applications and/or specifications and provide recommendations for enhancement or development
• Configuring and carrying out application testing based on design specifications
• Gathering and document business requirements, design, develop and deliver solutions
• Developing and maintaining good working relationships with customers, internal and external teams
• Improving the User Interface of the CAS System, Making it user friendly

To be successful in this role you would need to possess the following essential knowledge, skills & competencies:

Essential:

• A relevant degree (software engineering, computer science or similar)
• At least 1-2 years’ professional experience preferred
• Strong programming/scripting skills

Nice to have, knowledge of:

• Enterprise applications with Angular 13 or above
• Strong Typescript and JavaScript

• Developing REST APIs using C# Core Web API 6.0,

• Entity Framework 6.0

• Azure SQL database – with focus on query performance

• Front end knowledge – HTML, CSS, and JSON

Desirable:

• Strong Experience developing and deploying web applications to Azure
• Angular Material UI libraries
• Telerik Kendo UI libraries
• Experience with Azure DevOps – Pipelines (Build & Release)
• Diagnosing and fixing issues on live Azure-hosted web apps and databases
• Git – strong knowledge of concepts – branching & merging
• JIRA sprint management

About us….

The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) organises events, and competitions acts as a guardian for the state’s agricultural heritage, celebrates Australia’s achievements in agriculture, and works to promote the viability of rural communities by ensuring that Australia remains a thriving and innovative agricultural producer.

We manage the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney Royal competitions, the RAS Foundation, Australasian Animal Registry, and the Sydney Showground. The RAS has a team of over 130 full-time staff and an indispensable pool of casual staff who work on the Easter Show, and other Sydney Showground events.

RAS is an equal opportunity employer that respects and values the contribution and diversity of all our people. Our success depends on strong individual commitment and our ability to work as a team.

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We thank you for your interest in the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW and Sydney Showground and look forward to receiving your application.