Reporting to the Technology Program Manager, the IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Specialist plays a critical role in transforming complex business logic into scalable, automated decision services. This role is central to ensuring our organisation can respond quickly and accurately to evolving business needs by externalising decision login from core application code, increasing agility and enabling faster updates to policy and compliance rules. The ODM Specialist will work closely with business analysts, developers and subject matter experts to design, build and maintain decision services using IBM ODM tools. The IBM ODM Specialist is responsible for translating business requirements into executable rules, ensuring their accuracy, performance and maintainability.
About the Department
The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.
The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.
About the Division
The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) guides the Departments' digital capability and is leading digital transformation for the Department including Victorian government schools. The division architects manage and support the largest technology network in Victoria, which has a user base of approximately 750,000 staff and students.
IMTD provides innovation and leadership in the transformation and management of the Department's digital capability through the implementation of solutions on the department's cloud environment (IaaS), enterprise cloud platforms (PaaS) and software (SaaS), using agile practices with a focus on user experience, security, and integration.
As a valued member of the diverse IMTD team, you will have the opportunity to be part of influencing the new way of working for the department through your strong technical skills and customer-centric approach.
This position sits in the Early Childhood Education Digital Services Branch. A minimum requirement of 3 days a week in the DE office is required, plus a valid Working with Children Check (E).
About the Role
Reporting to the Technology Program Manager, the IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) Specialist plays a critical role in transforming complex business logic into scalable, automated decision services. This role is central to ensuring our organisation can respond quickly and accurately to evolving business needs by externalising decision login from core application code, increasing agility and enabling faster updates to policy and compliance rules.
The ODM Specialist will work closely with business analysts, developers and subject matter experts to design, build and maintain decision services using IBM ODM tools. The IBM ODM Specialist is responsible for translating business requirements into executable rules, ensuring their accuracy, performance and maintainability.
Knowledge & Experience Requirements
Essential:
* 2 years of experience developing business rules in IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) V8.x
* Experience with Rule Studio for authoring, validating, and deploying the rules/ruleApp to the rule execution server
* Experience in design, setup, customisation of the Business Object Model (BOM) and vocabulary for rule authoring as well as Implementing the Execution Object Model (XOM) that enables rule execution
* Experience authoring the rule artifacts to implement business policies and Orchestrate rule execution through rule flows
* Experience setting up and customising the testing and simulation environment for business users
* Experience packaging and deploying rule sets to test and production environments
* Experience in Java/JavaScript, Data transformation, and XML/XSD structures preferred
* Experience in working with a range of business and technical stakeholders to develop and validate business processes
* Tertiary qualification (ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT)
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
* Experience in collating requirements and driving them through the agile process
* Eliciting technical requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, and business process descriptions and modelling
* Highly developed time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload
* Self-motivated and confident in managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels
* Experience in using Jira and Confluence
Further Information
For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
This role requires 3 days per week in the DE office and an employee Working with Children Check.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at .
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Alissha Barrois – Director, Kindergarten Attendance via email Alissha.Barrois@education.vic.gov.au
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Applications close 11:59pm on 25.05.2025