Senior Geospatial Developer

As us about our flexible working policy
- Work with Open Source and Geospatial/GIS Technology on priority projects
- Work for a flexible organisation committed to your development and growth

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
Toitū Te Whenua - Land Information New Zealand is undergoing a period of change which will see us transform and revolutionise the way we are providing our services for all New Zealanders. To support us in achieving our goals and optimising our services, we are looking for a passionate, motivated, and high performing Senior Geospatial Developer to join our Location Information business group.
This exciting opportunity will see you lead design, deployment, testing, and maintenance of geospatial products and tools in an AWS environment. You will spend your time in a dynamic purpose driven team, with plenty of chances to share your expertise, mentor others, and contribute to Open Source Software projects.
You will have the opportunity to shape Toitū Te Whenua best practice development communities and champion open standards and system interoperability within the Open Source community. Part of your role is keeping the Location Information business group creative and innovative in the ongoing improvement of its systems and processes.
You will work collaboratively across the team to translate requirements into engineering design, communicating technical ideas clearly to both general and technical audiences and providing input to user training support and documentation.

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience
If you feel you can demonstrate the following capabilities and have an interest in joining our team in this exciting role, we'd love to hear from you:

- Working knowledge of AWS including services for infrastructure deployment, monitoring, databases, computation, and web delivery
- Ability to deliver full infrastructure automation
- Proven experience building scalable and reliable infrastructure
- Experience of multiple procedural and object-oriented programming languages and development frameworks (Python, Typescript)
- Knowledge and experience testing and deploying systems including tools for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) (Docker, Github Actions)
- Understanding and experience of relational database design, queries, and administration (PostgreSQL/PostGIS)
- Proven experience using and administering Linux and familiarity with shell scripting
- Providing feedback on user stories from a quality perspective, and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts

Ngā 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
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

As an organisation Toitū Te Whenua embraces diversity, encourages work life balance and we have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued. Toitū Te Whenua is one of the most engaged organisations in the public sector and people always say what a great place Toitū Te Whenua is to work.
The salary range for this position is $95,846 - $129,674

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
At Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, our key role is to ensure New Zealanders have accurate information about where people and places are, that people have confidence in their property rights and that Crown property is well managed for future generations.
From the best way to develop farmland, build a new suburb, manage a high-country farm or navigate on land or at sea, our work and location information help people make better decisions and create economic, social, environmental and cultural value for New Zealand.

Tono mai - How to Apply
The goal of the Government is to ensure that all those who can, are vaccinated. To support this, there is an expectation that all employees in the public service should be vaccinated. To meet the needs of the communities and organisations we engage with, our people in high-contact positions may need to be vaccinated.
Toitū Te Whenua is currently undertaking a change programme, known as Organising Ourselves, which is focused on strengthening our connections, our agility and the way we engage and work with our customers and partners. Note that we will be making changes to our ways of working and how we think about and describe our roles as part of this programme.