Senior Developer

**Korero mo te turanga - About the role**:
Now is an exciting time to join Toitu 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 is a key delivery platform for imagery, topographic and elevation data to the public and commercial sector and are utilised during national-scale emergency responses. 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. You will work collaboratively across your team to translate requirements into solutions, communicating technical ideas clearly to both general and technical audiences. You will be part of an agile team with genuine flexible working arrangements available and have access to exceptional mentors.\

**He pukenga 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 experience**

**Nga mea e tukuna ana e tatau - 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 Takinatanga - Our Story**

Toitu 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. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural, and economic considerations. Now and for future generations.

**Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan**

**Tono mai - How to Apply**

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