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An exciting opportunity has become available for a Geospatial Developer to join the Northpower Electricity Platforms team.
The role is based in Whangarei; however we are open to candidates who are looking to work remotely from elsewhere in NZ but able to travel to Whangarei when required (travel costs covered by Northpower).
The Role
Reporting to the Electricity Platforms Manager, you will be delivering solutions that leverage Northpower’s existing geospatial and asset systems capability. You will also play an integral part in designing and further modernising our platforms to support business outcomes and data driven decision-making.
Other aspects of the role include:
- Understanding existing solutions, incrementally replacing capability with modern technologies
- Work iteratively with the Electricity Platforms team to deliver targeted solutions within a highly integrated system landscape
- Support, configuration, maintenance, and development of Northpower’s enterprise geospatial and asset platforms
- Work with the business to resolve process and data issues
- Assist the wider Digital teams where required
What’s in it for you?
A role with us will enable you to work in a diverse, high performing collaborative team, with a very supportive leadership team. Some of the other benefits include:
- Competitive remuneration and flexible working options including remote working from anywhere in NZ
- Plenty of training and development opportunities for career progression
- A tight knit group of team members who support each other’s growth
- In-house wellbeing programme and initiatives including group discounted medical insurance
About you
You could be someone who’s been doing a similar role at a mid/senior level and looking for their next challenge, or you could be someone in a junior role and wanting to develop and upskill.
You will be a natural communicator, enjoy working in a team environment, approachable, and have the confidence to interact with people from both technical and business teams. Ideally, you will also have:
- A passion for learning new skills and techniques using geospatial technology
- Experience with: Enterprise GIS systems (ESRI ArcGIS or Hexagon G/Technology – utility sector preferred); spatial databases (Oracle, SQL Server); PL/SQL and Python programming languages or similar
- Experience supporting enterprise server environments
- An understanding of asset management principles
- Related/similar experience and a desire to learn all of the above
About us
Northpower is an electricity and fibre network provider for Whangarei and Kaipara, with more than 60,000 connected customers. We also provide contracting services to our partners – other network owners and operators across the North Island.
We have over 1,300 staff working together across 13 locations to keep the power on and the lights going for our customers.
Get in touch!
If you possess a can-do attitude and meet some of the above requirements, we’d love to hear from you. Head over to our careers website and search for #Req754 to apply!
Northpower has an in-house recruitment team who manage recruitment for all our vacancies. If you’re interested in a role with us we would encourage you to apply directly online to us, as we don’t accept candidates via agency (unless the role is advertised by the agency at our request).
