Geospatial Developer

Occupy a key role in supporting, maintaining, and developing systems relating to property addressing in New Zealand
- Agile approach to development and documentation

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
Location Information contributes to increasing the value of geographic information by developing and managing new and existing data about our land and seas. These are released online, through the Toitū Te Whenua (LINZ) Data Service, for others to use and reuse. Using this data, we provide products and services (maps, charts and the geospatial reference system) to support critical national functions, such as emergency services responses and maritime safety.
The Development Team comprises a diverse range of people a very supportive, collaborative, engaging and flexible manner.
LINZ Basemaps use authoritative data from LINZ and other open data sources and is free to use under an open licence to all. The high resolution arial imagery displays a nationwide view of New Zealand, allowing users to zoom in to see individual buildings. The latest imagery, down to 5cm in urban areas and 10 m satellite imagery provides coverage of mainland New Zealand, the Chatham's, and offshore islands
At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks) and so you'll notice our role profiles are broad. This 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. The broad-based role for this position is ‘Digital Specialist'.

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience

**You will be a skilled Geospatial Developer with**:

- A relevant Computer Science or GIS qualification at the degree level
- A strong grasp of DevOps best practices (GitHub Actions)
- Familiarity with asynchronous, distributed architectures, serverless (AWS Lambda, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, Batch, Docker)
- Experience working with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK)
- Experience in Data Engineering products (Argo Workflows and Kubernetes)
- Experience in building and testing processing tools/plugins and PostGIS functions
- Technically proficiency in a variety of operating systems, including Windows and Linux
- Experience with version control, preferably in Git and Github
- Operational knowledge of Agile methodologies and development tools.

The annual salary range for this position is $83,307 - $112,709

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.

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

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.