Senior Developer

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Senior Developer – Wellington!

• Based at Royal NZ Police College Porirua.
• Band J
• Police Employee
• Permanent/ Full Time
• NAV
• JR 5278718

E tῡ ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā.

Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face

Mō te tūnga | About the role

With a primary hub in Wellington, and a presence throughout the country, NZ Police ICT delivers new and enhanced solutions directly and through specialist vendor partnerships. We provide expert advice on how technology can be leveraged to support Police’s strategies and turn concepts into reality through collaborative development.

We are currently seeking a Senior Developer to play a key role to design, develop, maintain and unit test the application software that drives the work of NZ Police.

Our Senior Developers work with business stakeholders, alongside other teams in the wider ICT Group, to ensure we deliver the right solutions at the right time. They  write clean, efficient code utilising industry and NZ Police best practices and standards. This includes the delivery of appropriate design documentation.

The Senior Developer supports the progress and improvement of the Development Practice at NZ Police. They provide support and guidance to other members of the team and wider ICT community. As our developers reside within the Development Centre of Expertise, they will flow to work as required. This could mean working within a single product team for a long period of time or moving between products or projects.  

Key Accountabilities:

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others’ designs.
• Works with internal business customers to understand problems and design solutions.
• Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
• Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs.
• Stays up to date with new and upcoming technology, with the intent of improving development practices at NZ Police.

He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

To be successful in this role you will require the following:

• Have solid experience with programming languages & development in Java environment.
• Have experience in (or wiliness to learn)  SmallTalk,  Angular or REACT development frameworks.
• Have solid understanding and experience with version control systems.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies.
• Have solid understanding and experience with design patterns and software architecture.
• Have the ability to mentor and support more junior members of the practice.
• Be an effective communicator, able to make complex technical concepts and ideas understandable.
• Be able to problem solve, with a good attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively across the organisation and adapt to changing requirements.

Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements

• This role is based at RNZPC Porirua.
• Applicants must be a NZ Citizen, Resident or have valid work rights for NZ in order to apply.
• A relevant tertiary qualification is preferred.

This role is Individual Contributor/Emerging Leader level. You can refer to Indicators for Success for further information on the requirements

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:

https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/07-2025/senior_developer_-_ict.pdf

Mo tātou | About us

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.

Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways.

The work you’ll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.

To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:

Applicant Information Pack (External)

Tono ināianei | Apply now

If this position sounds like you, click apply now and submit a tailored CV. You will be required to submit an application form. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken which include reference, drug and alcohol testing  and police vetting prior to any written offer being made.  

For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers 

All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted directly via email. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.  

Utu ā-tau | Salary

This position is covered by a collective agreement and salary will commence between $110,425 and $117,014 dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.  

If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system. You must provide an alternative contact email address and state your future commitments should you be successful in the next stage of the recruitment process. 

Please note: Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on Tueaday, 12th August 2025 . Applications may be reviewed prior to the close date as well as contact made with candidates. 

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact  deepa.shankar@police.govt.nz