Senior Software Engineer

• Award-winning Engineering team working on critical systems
• Join our caring and collaborative experts who freely share their expertise
• Deliver complex business domain solutions to keep the lights on for Aotearoa

Work on a range of software development and integration work that supports the running of the NZ electricity grid and electricity market in real time.

Transpower is the owner and operator of the National Grid. At the heart of the electricity sector, we transport high voltage electricity from where it is generated to large electricity users and the distribution businesses that deliver it to homes and businesses nationwide.

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand - a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

Our large Information Services and Technology (IST) division delivers and supports the infrastructure and applications that work with the grid, facilitate system, and grid operations, and also supports our corporate processes and systems.

About the team

Our Application Services team helps ensure electricity is delivered to all New Zealanders, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by maintaining and evolving complex critical IT systems. The business domain we work within ensures there are always new and interesting challenges to tackle and that the work we do matters - electricity is essential to our economy, our health system, and the wellbeing of our citizens.

As a team we have been changing at a rapid pace, using new technologies to engineer modern web / mobile applications, intelligent AI/ML embedded automation to streamline workflows and functions, and adopting open-source software and DevOps methodologies to accelerate product delivery.

You will be joining an experienced and high performing team who care about their customers and their work. This is a role where you can truly make a positive impact on our people, organisation, and industry. To learn more about our award-winning IT shop, please check out the following pages:

https://www.transpower.co.nz/news/market-system-transformation-nets-transpower-2024-red-hat-innovation-award

https://www.transpower.co.nz/about-us/celebrating-our-people/engineering-and-technology-excellence-awards/2024-winners

About the Opportunity

The market system is a modernised Java/Spring Boot application that handles the complexities of New Zealand's electricity market. It performs functions such as: determining electricity spot prices and balancing real-time supply and demand to ensure system stability. This application manages inputs like electricity generation offers, demand forecasts, and system constraints, and follows a Security Constrained Economic Dispatch process to ensure the grid remains stable while minimising costs across pricing nodes.

This role is focused in the Market System area and contributes to a variety of initiatives, including business-led technical improvements and life cycle refresh projects. This involves balancing both strategic business objectives and necessary technical upgrades to maintain and enhance the market system's performance.

About you

As a highly experienced Software Engineer, you'll find this role stimulating! You will naturally think broadly and seek to understand how your work contributes to the wider systems and strategic direction of Transpower, whilst leveraging your product development background and experience working across software development and operations.

To be considered your CV and cover letter will demonstrate:

Experience delivering complex domain business solutions with a passion for software delivery and quality. You will possess an innate desire to learn and understand the domain you are working within.

We are seeking 5+ years of analysis, design, and programming experience, including large scale application integration within complex business delivery, and in-depth knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products. Your skills and experience will include working with applications DevOps toolchains for continuous build, integration, packaging, and deployment.

You will be able to demonstrate skills at a senior level across these languages / frameworks:

Must have:

• Spring Boot/Java
• Experience of building RESTful web services and JSON
• Distributed services / REST / micro services architecture
• Opensource frameworks
• Maven/Gradle
• Oracle

Ideal

• OpenShift
• Linux (RHEL)

Why you should join us

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, the planet, and the economy.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

Employee wellbeing is prioritised with a range of health and wellness benefits-check them out here: Staff benefits | Transpower and to learn more about an IT career at Transpower, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/hkWDjmzTOT0?si=h7QOkitdqX4tyaEE

Next steps

If you're ready to join a fun, collaborative, and results focused Application Services team who enjoy a varied and full programme of work, including many interesting and challenging projects with numerous opportunities to learn, we'd love to hear from you. Please review the position description on our Careers site https://careers.transpower.co.nz/search and apply without delay!

Role closes 3rd March 2025 however, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we may contact you to explore your application further prior to the close date!

We are an accredited employer; therefore, visa sponsorship is available if required for qualified and experienced IT professionals who meet NZ Immigration requirements.