Gis Engineer

**About Valocity**:
Our award-winning team of game-changers drive transformation and world-class innovation across the entire mortgage valuation process. Combining our data, technology, and people, the Valocity dream team works collaboratively to streamline the home buying journey for people around the world.

With offices in New Zealand, Australia, and India, Valocity is constantly evolving culture and strategy with a focus on the future. We’re open to innovation, technology, and new ideas to ensure we continue to be fast, agile, and equipped for success.

At Valocity, we endorse positive goals and a productive atmosphere that embodies the highest level of commitment to the business, customers, and one another. This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic and growing global team where your professionalism and skills will make a difference.

You will be working for an award winning, innovative, and fast-paced organisation that believes in celebrating success. Team Valocity is passionate about people, and Valocity’s people are passionate about what they do every day. With us, better never stops.

**About The Role**:
This person will also contribute to the overall strategy of the Valocity Data team, providing input into continuous improvement, value optimisation and opportunity identification and quantification.

If you are passionate about geospatial data, looking to take your skills to the next level and are naturally inquisitive, we’d love to meet you.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Help design, implement, and manage Valocity’s core geospatial databases and systems adopting agreed architectures and technologies. Simultaneously improving the understanding, useability, and resultant data quality.
- Stay up to date with the latest GIS technologies, tools, and industry best practices, and recommend their implementation to enhance our GIS capabilities.
- Assist with the ongoing program of modernization work. Reimplement legacy assets onto the target state technology stack, rather than simply migrating them.
- Assist in developing an internal reference repository of knowledge in the form of a Wiki related to GIS systems, processes, and workflows that is accessible and useable by a wider stakeholder group including Product and Development teams.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify GIS requirements and translate them into technical solutions. And work with cross-functional teams to help integrate GIS with other internal systems and platforms.
- Conduct quality assurance and control procedures on geospatial data, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Participate in GIS data acquisition and integration efforts, including data acquisition, digitization, georeferencing, and data conversion.

**Key Requirements**:

- Minimum 5 years accumulated experience in GIS development, implementation, and management
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Proficiency in GIS software and tools, such as GeoServer, CARTO, or similar
- Familiarity with web mapping technologies, such as Google Maps, Mapbox, Leaflet
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python and SQL
- Knowledge of geospatial databases, spatial data modelling, and data management techniques
- Experience with spatial analysis and geoprocessing
- Understanding of cartographic principles and map design
- Good understanding of Azure Data Platform Solutions including but not limited to Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory

**Why Join Us?**
- We have a passion for designing and building best in class products and services to ease business for our lender partners.
- We thrive in a fast paced, high-growth environment. If you want to work for a professional, global, inclusive and innovative company, we'd love to meet you

**Please Note**:

- To be considered for this role, you must have NZ work rights and ideally be in NZ.