Technical Lead- AEM (FTC)


An exciting 6-month Fixed term contract opportunity for a technical lead. The purpose of this role is to manage and guide development teams through all aspects of delivery for assigned projects in order to build, enhance, and maintain software applications within the IT Delivery Centre of Excellence, providing the following outcomes to achieve the HCF Strategic plans for 2025 and beyond.

Key Tasks:

  • Leads the team and conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks.
  • Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach.
  • Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks.
  • Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities.
  • Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs.
  • Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting.
  • Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high-quality standard.
  • Challenges existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance.
  • Mentors and develops analyst programmers to support achievement of key performance indicators, ensuring further development of technical knowledge and service delivery standards.

Essentials:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field gained through 8 or more years of experience in a similar development environment
  • Significant knowledge of object-oriented programming, applying SOLID principals and design patterns
  • Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies in Agile delivery, practices, and SCRUM methodology
  • Design and build components, templates and screens using front end templating techniques such as Handlebars
  • Ability work in frontend-based build pipeline using Grunt / Gulp and TFS or any other build tools
  • Solving technical problems related to content management such as search result accuracy, dynamic content linking, formatting, image scaling and personalization.
  • Proven track record in integration and development of distributed software applications including cloud-based applications
  • Highly skilled in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debugging
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • 10-12 years of overall experience in software / website development including at least ~5 years of experience in Adobe AEM development application development including:
  • Java, AEM 6.5+, JCR API, Sling API, RESTful services, AJAX, AngularJS, Adobe Marketing Cloud products
  • Experience in AEM environment management though CI/CD
  • Experience in AEM upgrades and migration
  • Working with web services/REST, web architectures including SEO, mobile web considerations and responsive web design
  • Configuring the full AEM stack from author instance to dispatcher and CDN
  • Experience in designing solution related to website and frontend tech stack
  • Experienced in HTML5, CSS3, LESS
  • Ability to develop frontend screens of different viewports from ground up
  • Source control management tool, such as TFS, GIT, Stash, Grunt
  • Design and build components, templates, dialogs, and workflows using the AEM architecture (Sling, CRX, OSGI, JCR, Models)

About HCF


At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover over 1.9 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.

We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver ourStrategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.

Culture & Benefits

Purpose-driven passion
We’re united by a common purpose: to make healthcare affordable, understandable, high quality and member-focused.

Wellness and work-life balance
We’ll empower you with the necessary skills and tools to support your personal wellbeing journey, ensuring you perform at your best. Our offerings include:

  • 50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
  • 18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
  • Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
  • Discounts on HCF’s products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.


Collaboration and inclusivity
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.

Continuous learning and growth
We believe in lifelong learning. HCF provides opportunities for personal and professional development. From workshops to mentorship programs, we encourage your growth and curiosity.

Next steps

If you require any adjustments to assist you in making your application or during the recruitment or onboarding process, please reach out to Talent Acquisition – peopleservices@hcf.com.au  to discuss.

We encourage applicants to submit their applications at their earliest convenience, as at HCF, we review applications as they are submitted, and may have filled the role prior to the job closing date.


An exciting 6-month Fixed term contract opportunity for a technical lead. The purpose of this role is to manage and guide development teams through all aspects of delivery for assigned projects in order to build, enhance, and maintain software applications within the IT Delivery Centre of Excellence, providing the following outcomes to achieve the HCF Strategic plans for 2025 and beyond.

Key Tasks:

  • Leads the team and conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks.
  • Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach.
  • Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks.
  • Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities.
  • Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs.
  • Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting.
  • Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high-quality standard.
  • Challenges existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance.
  • Mentors and develops analyst programmers to support achievement of key performance indicators, ensuring further development of technical knowledge and service delivery standards.

Essentials:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field gained through 8 or more years of experience in a similar development environment
  • Significant knowledge of object-oriented programming, applying SOLID principals and design patterns
  • Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies in Agile delivery, practices, and SCRUM methodology
  • Design and build components, templates and screens using front end templating techniques such as Handlebars
  • Ability work in frontend-based build pipeline using Grunt / Gulp and TFS or any other build tools
  • Solving technical problems related to content management such as search result accuracy, dynamic content linking, formatting, image scaling and personalization.
  • Proven track record in integration and development of distributed software applications including cloud-based applications
  • Highly skilled in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debugging
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • 10-12 years of overall experience in software / website development including at least ~5 years of experience in Adobe AEM development application development including:
  • Java, AEM 6.5+, JCR API, Sling API, RESTful services, AJAX, AngularJS, Adobe Marketing Cloud products
  • Experience in AEM environment management though CI/CD
  • Experience in AEM upgrades and migration
  • Working with web services/REST, web architectures including SEO, mobile web considerations and responsive web design
  • Configuring the full AEM stack from author instance to dispatcher and CDN
  • Experience in designing solution related to website and frontend tech stack
  • Experienced in HTML5, CSS3, LESS
  • Ability to develop frontend screens of different viewports from ground up
  • Source control management tool, such as TFS, GIT, Stash, Grunt
  • Design and build components, templates, dialogs, and workflows using the AEM architecture (Sling, CRX, OSGI, JCR, Models)

About HCF


At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover over 1.9 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.

We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver ourStrategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.

Culture & Benefits

Purpose-driven passion
We’re united by a common purpose: to make healthcare affordable, understandable, high quality and member-focused.

Wellness and work-life balance
We’ll empower you with the necessary skills and tools to support your personal wellbeing journey, ensuring you perform at your best. Our offerings include:

  • 50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
  • 18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
  • Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
  • Discounts on HCF’s products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.


Collaboration and inclusivity
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.

Continuous learning and growth
We believe in lifelong learning. HCF provides opportunities for personal and professional development. From workshops to mentorship programs, we encourage your growth and curiosity.

Next steps

If you require any adjustments to assist you in making your application or during the recruitment or onboarding process, please reach out to Talent Acquisition – peopleservices@hcf.com.au  to discuss.

We encourage applicants to submit their applications at their earliest convenience, as at HCF, we review applications as they are submitted, and may have filled the role prior to the job closing date.

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