Senior Geospatial Specialist

6 days ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Auckland Council Full time

**Senior Geospatial Specialist / Consultant role within an exciting landscape**:

- **Utilise world-leading industry technology to develop valuable solutions**:

- **Join one of New Zealand's largest in-house geospatial teams**:

- **Hybrid working environment**

**He angitūtanga: The opportunity**

The Geospatial team at Auckland Council is dedicated to leveraging the potential of location intelligence to transform Auckland. Operating an enterprise GIS, we provide robust support for various outstanding products and solutions catering to our kaimahi and customers. Our goal is to deliver a comprehensive, innovative, and insightful capability that integrates location-based data, cutting-edge technology, and advanced techniques. This empowers our diverse range of customers to unlock value, address intricate challenges, make informed decisions, and foster collaboration, sharing, and communication with their stakeholders.

As a Senior Geospatial Specialist in the Geospatial Team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring operational excellence for geospatial services. This involves maintaining high-value data assets, building and enhancing GIS solutions, and collaborating with customers and stakeholders throughout the organisation. You'll also contribute to geospatial business planning and governance, promote the teams’ objectives through engagement and industry participation, and provide complex spatial information and analysis. Your expertise will be crucial in engaging with decision-makers, defining geospatial requirements, and delivering proactive support to meet service requests promptly.

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**He kōrero mōu: About you**

We're seeking a dynamic and seasoned GIS professional with over 5 years of proven experience using Esri (ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online) and Safe (FME) technologies, ideally within a large enterprise setting. Your expertise should be coupled with excellent customer service and problem-solving skills, along with strong verbal and written communication abilities. Proactiveness, inquisitiveness, and a commitment to continuous improvement should be second nature to you. Familiarity with Agile methodologies is also desirable.

A tertiary level qualification, preferably a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Geospatial Information Systems, Computer Science, or a closely related field, is essential for this role.

**Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer**
Auckland Council is one of the largest local authorities in the South Pacific providing essential services and facilities to more than 1.6 million people. We are progressive socially, culturally and environmentally while we work towards creating change having an impact on our journey to becoming a city we are proud of for our ratepayers and residents.

**Ehara taku toa, he takitahi, he toa takitini My success is not mine alone, but the success of many.**

In return for your hard work, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and be a part of a friendly and collaborative team that is dedicated to our customers. You will receive dedicated training and development to help build your career and on top of this, as part of our Auckland Council Group, you will gain access to many benefits and discounts. Click the link to find out more about our employee benefits package.

**Applications close Sunday 31 March 2024**
- Auckland Council strongly encourages our employees to be fully vaccinated._


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