About the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the NDIS Commission) is an independent agency established on 1 July 2018 to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and services. The Commission is the dedicated national regulator of NDIS service providers in Australia and a non-corporate entity under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013. The NDIS Commission works with people with disability, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), governments and the sector who together deliver the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. We strongly and actively encourage applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, including people with disability, First Nations peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. About the role The Assistant Director, Platform Engineering is responsible for the design, build and technical evolution of the DART platform. This role provides technical leadership to ensure platform services are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned with organisational standards and focuses on engineering excellence and controlled change, ensuring platform capabilities are delivered in a way that supports regulatory obligations while remaining operationally supportable. The key duties of the position include Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: Lead the engineering and technical development of DART platform services and environments across all DART environments. Shared responsibility for production stability and platform operability, in partnership with Data Operations & Assurance team. Contribution to technology risk assessments and design authority decisions. Define and maintain platform architecture patterns, standards and engineering practices. Lead implementation of platform capabilities including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability and integration tooling. Ensure non-functional requirements such as security, performance, resilience and auditability are embedded into platform design.
