Senior Developer at Land Information New Zealand, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

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 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.

Toitū Te Whenua, LINZ are looking for a Senior Developer to join our Geospatial Data Engineering Squad.  As a Senior Developer in Location Information, you'll collectively lead exciting projects delivering essential geospatial products and workflows. The geospatial data domains you will be working with include aerial imagery, elevation and bathymetry.

As part of the team, you will take responsibility for the design, deployment, testing, and maintenance of geospatial products, services, and tools in an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment. You will share your knowledge and contribute to a wide range of Open-Source Software projects. You will work collaboratively across your team to translate requirements into design, communicating technical ideas clearly to both general and technical audiences whilst providing input to user training support and documentation.   You will be part of an agile team with genuine flexible working arrangements available. 

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience

• Using your proven coding ability to add to our existing code base (experience using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Employing your knowledge of cloud-based services (including AWS) for infrastructure deployment, monitoring, databases, and computation
• Providing leadership for product planning, objective setting, release and release planning, product backlog, operational escalation, and related activities
• Adapting often and early, challenging the status quo, presenting ideas with the aim of enhancing the pipeline, the process, the code, and the product
• 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

• 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 EKS, S3, Docker)
• Experience working with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK)
• A strong grasp of DevOps best practices (GitHub Actions)

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
• 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 Tākinatanga - Our Story

Toitū 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, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan

Toitū Te Whenua is a diverse team of individuals with different experience and perspectives. This drives our culture and high performance.  We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don't apply for roles if they're not a 100% match, but we're not looking for perfection, we're looking for potential.  As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value difference and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. As an organisation we embrace diversity, encourage work life balance and have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued. 

Tono mai - How to Apply

If you're eyeing up this role and believe you've got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team. 

To apply, please click “Apply Online.” You'll be taken through to our Toitū Te Whenua Careers Centre where you'll be able to review further information about the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role in the Position Description. You'll be able to complete your online application form and upload a copy of your CV/Cover Letter. 

Please note, while applications close Monday 4 November 2024, we may be reviewing applications as they are received and may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.

For tracking and evaluation purposes, all applications must be submitted via our on-line process. You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible for this position. 

You may notice that the Position Description title for this role (Digital Specialist - Level Toru/3) doesn't match the advertised title.  At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR 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.

If you have any questions about this role or working at Toitū Te Whenua, please email opportunities@linz.govt.nz  and our Recruitment Team will be in touch with you.