Senior Developer job in New Zealand NZD125000-140000/year
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Senior Developer job in New Zealand.
Job Description
Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the roleNow is an exciting time to join Toitū Te Whenua, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ); The LINZ Basemaps Squad are looking for a Senior Developer on a fixed term basis through to 30 June 2027. LINZ Basemaps are essential for providing spatial context to customer data and decision-making across Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a senior member of the Basemaps Squad, you will play a key role in delivering vital web mapping products and services to meet current and future customer needs.
This role supports significant programmes such as 3D Coastal Mapping, which will map up to 40% of New Zealand’s coastline, improving baseline datasets to better understand the impact of sea level rise; and will contribute to the Future Topographic Mapping Programme, which focuses on modernising a world-class topographic product and data offering. This work is varied, interesting, and rewarding.
As a Senior member of the Squad, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the design, deployment, testing, operation and maintenance of LINZ Basemap products and tools. You will share your knowledge and contribute to a wide range of Open-Source Software solutions. We are looking for someone with the willingness to learn and align to our way of working. We believe skills are transferable, and enthusiasm goes a long way, so consider applying even if you do not think you have all the experience.
He pūkenga tou – Skills & Experience
- Current knowledge of cloud-based services (including AWS) for infrastructure deployment, monitoring, data storage, computation, and web service delivery.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering work within an Agile environment.
- Proven effective communication skills to promote, collaborate, influence and advocate for the product roadmap.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to distil customer insights and identify opportunities for product improvements.
- Coding ability to add to our existing code base (knowledge of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
- Skills and experience in product planning, objective setting, release planning, product backlog, operational escalation, and related activities
- Keeping up to date with technology, development best practices, and other technological, digital, or geospatial initiatives to ensure LINZ provides well supported products
Experience in the following areas would be an advantage:
- Experience working with open-source libraries and communities and an enthusiasm for engagement across the open geospatial ecosystem.
- Development experience that supports open geospatial data pipelines and metadata creation, maintenance, and validation (GDAL, PDAL, STAC)
- Experience in Data Engineering at scale (Argo Workflows, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with asynchronous, distributed architectures, serverless (AWS Lambda, EKS, S3, Docker)
- Experience working with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK)
- Familiarity with creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Having studied in a relevant field or have relevant experience or tertiary qualification in a geospatial or computer science discipline.
- Familiarity with a variety of geospatial software (QGIS, ArcGIS, MapLibre).
- Experience implementing OGC standards (STAC, OGC API standards).
- Familiarity with cloud-optimised geospatial data formats (COG, COPC, GeoParquet).
The expected appointing range for this role is: $125,000-140,000 dependant on experienceNgā mea e tukuna ana e tātau –
What we offer our employees
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
- Eye & ear care reimbursements
- Annual Flu Vaccinations
- Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
- Diverse groups and networks
- If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks.
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave
Te Tākinatanga – Our Story
Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for New Zealand’s whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you’re developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Senior Developer job in
Now and for future generations.
Our Kia Toipoto Intentions – Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action PlanToitū Te Whenua is a diverse team of individuals with different experience and perspectives. This drives our culture and high performance. We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don’t apply for roles if they’re not a 100% match, but we’re not looking for perfection, we’re looking for potential.
As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value difference and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. As an organisation we embrace diversity, encourage work life balance and have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued.Tono mai –
How to Apply
If you’re eyeing up this role and believe you’ve got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team.To apply, please click “Apply Online.” You’ll be taken through to our Toitū Te Whenua Careers Centre where you’ll be able to review further information about the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role in the Position Description. You’ll be able to complete your online application form and upload a copy of your CV/Cover Letter. Senior Developer job in
Please note
while applications close 14 February 2025, we may be reviewing applications as they are received and may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position. For tracking and evaluation purposes, all applications must be submitted via our on-line process. You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible for this position. You may notice that the Position Description title for this role Matanga Matihiko Matua / Senior Digital Specialist – Level 3 doesn’t match the advertised title. Senior Developer job in
At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers.If you have any questions about this role or working at Toitū Te Whenua, please email and our Recruitment Team will be in touch with you.
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