Archival Management System Application Specialist at Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington

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Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Archives NZ
Branch: Enterprise Partnerships
Salary: $79,965 - $108,188

Archival Management Systems Application Specialist - Archives NZ

Enabling trusted government information

At Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga we work to ensure effective, trusted government record-keeping for the benefit of all New Zealanders. We preserve and protect more than seven million official records, from 19^th century treaties to 21^st century documents and data. Our goal is for all New Zealanders to easily access and use this taonga, connecting you to your rights and entitlements and stories - now and for the future.

Archives NZ is looking for someone who is not only great with customers but also has the ability to work with vendors and maintain a system of platforms.

If you like a challenge, have an inquisitive mind and want to help people, this job might be for you.

The Archival Information System Specialist will be responsible for the upkeep and improvement of Archives New Zealand's Collections platform. This role is responsible for:

• The day to day operations and relationships across Archives NZ, wider user community and external vendors;
• Manage and maintain existing integrations with Archives other external digital services (ie: websites, and APIs..);
• Resolve support requests for end users, including provisioning access where appropriate;
• Acting on improvements to support enhanced archives management and service delivery at Archives;
• Serve as the subject matter expert and advocates to support Archives in all Collection platform related initiatives and incidents.

To succeed in this role, you will need to have proven experience in:

• a similar database/systems administrator role (preferable 5+ years);
• relationship management;
• service delivery management role across third party vendors;
• Change management for software systems releases and fixes
• Proven ability to document business requirements for digital services;
• using C++ or other software development languages (desirable)
• working with SQL databases (desirable)

If you want a job where the work you do matters to New Zealand, we would like to hear from you.

Applications close: 5pm, 27 January 2023
For more information please contact: Belinda.Chu@dia.govt.nz
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