• Award winning IT shop
• Join our high performing team
• Deliver complex business domain solutions

Transpower owns and operates the national grid - the country's high voltage electricity transmission network. We work diligently to ensure a reliable and secure supply of electricity to all parts of Aotearoa New Zealand, while also working towards a net-zero carbon future.
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 Dev Ops 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.
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 determines electricity spot prices, 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 contributing 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 Dev Ops 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

• Open Shift
• Linux (RHEL)

Why you should join us
We stand together for New Zealand - Tū mai Aotearoa - to enable a 100% renewable energy future.
As an equal opportunity employer, we embrace diversity. Our people are made up of over 28 nationalities which makes for a dynamic and stimulating environment.
Our benefits include a range of health and lifestyle options to support your wellbeing. View them here: https://www.transpower.co.nz/about-us/careers/benefits
To learn more about an IT career at Transpower, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/hk WDjmz TOT0
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
We are an accredited employer; therefore, visa sponsorship is available if required for qualified and experienced IT professionals who meet NZ Immigration requirements.
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 via our careers site https://careers.transpower.co.nz/search and apply without delay.
Role closes Tuesday 12th November. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and exploratory conversations / interviews may be scheduled for shortlisted candidates ahead of the closing date.