Senior Integration and Automation Specialist

About the role

Inner West Council is recruiting a Senior Integration and Automation Specialist for its Digital Services team in the Inner West of Sydney. The role is full time, on a 35-hour week, and involves establishing a new integration and automation capability from the ground up, combining hands-on technical delivery with solution design, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership. The advertised salary is $122,063 to $137,421 per year plus 12% superannuation, with a possible market allowance.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement enterprise integrations, APIs and automation solutions across Council's systems and platforms.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand business challenges and turn requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Apply modern integration architecture, including API-led, event-driven, message-based and workflow patterns.
• Establish reusable integration standards, frameworks and practices.
• Work with vendors, implementation partners and internal teams, and provide technical leadership and mentoring while staying hands-on.
• Explore AI, intelligent automation and emerging technologies to improve processes and service delivery.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing and supporting enterprise integrations, APIs and automation.
• Consultative approach: engaging with stakeholders, assessing options and explaining risks and trade-offs.
• Ability to work with vendors, delivery partners and multidisciplinary teams, and to mentor others.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as TechnologyOne, Dynamics 365, ESRI or other SaaS applications is valuable.
• No formal Integration Architect or people management position required; suits a Senior Integration Engineer, Integration Consultant, Technical Lead or emerging Solution Architect.

Required skills

• Azure Integration Services, Microsoft Power Platform or comparable integration and automation technologies.
• Scripting, coding, workflow automation and integration technologies.
• API management, integration patterns, security and governance.

What we offer

• Greenfield opportunity to shape the council's integration and automation capability.
• Work on AI-enabled initiatives and meaningful projects linking enterprise systems, data platforms, customer experiences and frontline services.
• Flexible working arrangements, Fitness Passport and additional leave benefits.

Applications close on 22 November 2026; candidates are invited to contact the recruiter for a confidential discussion.