Job Title: Senior OpenText Software Engineer (Exstream/StreamServe Developer)

This role is a full-time opportunity to join Local Peoples team permanently, with your first project supporting Services Australia in delivering enterprise-scale customer communication solutions. You will contribute to the design, development, and support of critical correspondence platforms that enable secure, accessible, and high-quality communications for millions of Australians.

You will play a key role in delivering robust document generation solutions across print and digital channels, supporting business operations and legislative requirements within a large and complex government environment.

About the First Project

You will work within a multidisciplinary delivery team to design and implement OpenText Exstream/StreamServe solutions that support enterprise correspondence and communication services.

Operating in an Agile environment, you will collaborate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-quality document solutions. The role includes an initial onsite period (first 6 weeks full-time), followed by a hybrid working arrangement (minimum 3 days onsite per week). Canberra is preferred, with Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide considered.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, configure, and maintain correspondence solutions using OpenText Exstream/StreamServe

• Translate business and legislative requirements into structured document and template designs

• Develop reusable components, scripts, and business rules

• Integrate document solutions with enterprise systems and output services

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to data, formatting, and performance

• Support testing activities including unit, system, and user acceptance testing

• Contribute to release planning, deployment, and post-release reviews

• Maintain technical documentation and design artefacts

• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and accessibility requirements

• Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years’ experience working with OpenText Exstream and/or StreamServe.

• Strong experience in document generation, template design, and variable data printing.

• Proven experience working with complex, data-driven document structures (e.g. section-based tables).

• Experience with data mapping across XML, JSON, delimited, and columnar file formats.

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, .NET, JCL, Compuset, or M204 User Language.

• Experience working within large-scale enterprise or government environments.

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated experience delivering OpenText Exstream/StreamServe solutions in complex environments.

• Ability to design and implement scalable document and correspondence solutions.

• Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in troubleshooting data and formatting issues.

• Experience working across development, testing, and release cycles.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work effectively within Agile delivery teams

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with systems integration and enterprise platforms

• Exposure to release and deployment processes and tools

• Experience in highly regulated or government environments

• Knowledge of configuration management practices

Residency and Clearance

• Must be an Australian Citizen

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) clearance

Location and Working Arrangements

• Canberra preferred; Melbourne, Brisbane, or Adelaide considered

• Initial 6 weeks full-time onsite

• Hybrid working arrangement (minimum 3 days onsite per week)

• Must be able to attend the office within a reasonable distance if required

Who are Local Peoples?

Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.

We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.

We produce www.mattersjournal.com, a publication and community of 100K+, which focuses on design-led social innovation and impact.

Why join Local Peoples?

• Representative and inclusive - we are dedicated to building an inclusive and accessible workplace for people from diverse backgrounds

• Impact driven - work towards achieving real impact for people and the environment

• Fantastic culture - driven by a welcoming, supportive and collaborative team environment

• Professional support for design excellence- benefit from being a part of one of Australia’s fastest growing design and delivery communities

• Flexible working arrangements - including the ability to work remotely

• Market rate salaries - attractive remuneration packages in line with the market rate

• Flexible employment types - including the preference for permanent, but will consider contracting

Local Peoples proudly supports the LGBTQ+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and First Nations people. We are committed to creating inclusive spaces where everyone, regardless of their identity, feels valued and respected. Together, we strive for equality and a positive future for all.

Local Peoples works, creates, and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognize and pay our deepest respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land