Senior .Net Developer

Ko wai mātou – About us

At OSPRI, our work is guided by strong values and a clear purpose. We exist to strengthen and protect New Zealand’s livestock industries through excellence in disease management and traceability — supporting farmers, communities and the primary sector to thrive.

Our values shape how we work every day:

• Ārahina e te Aronga | Purpose Led – we stay focused on what matters most and the impact we're here to create
• Whakamana Tangata | Powered by People – we uplift our people, farmers and partners
• Kotahitanga | Stronger Together – we believe meaningful change happens through shared effort
• Ka Tūtuki ā Mātou Mahi | We Deliver – we are committed to delivering enduring results

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role 
Part of the Applications and Products team, the Senior .NET Developer contributes to development, support, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across OSPRI’s application landscape, with a focus on web applications, APIs, integrations, and supporting services. The role works with internal and external stakeholders, and oversees vendor-delivered work to ensure quality, knowledge transfer, and alignment with OSPRI standards.

This is a two-year fixed-term role established to accelerate delivery of OSPRI’s Technology Roadmap and support the ongoing evolution of OSPRI's core business systems. Working as a technical leader and subject matter expert the role will help drive application modernisation, platform enhancements, technical debt reduction and technology improvement initiatives across OSPRI’s technology landscape.

The role is responsible for the development, enhancement, support, maintenance, and continuous improvement of OSPRI’s business-critical applications and integration services. It delivers solution design, custom development, integration, troubleshooting, testing, and release support, ensuring systems remain reliable, secure, scalable, and fit for purpose.

What success will look like:

• Working across the business and external stakeholders to ensure applications are successfully migrated to a modern, supported platform, reducing operational risk, improving security and reliability, and providing a stable foundation for future enhancements and ongoing support.
• Applications are stabilised, priority defects resolved, and technical debt reduced.
• Applications are modernised into secure, reliable, and supportable platforms that improve user experience, reduce technical debt, and provide a sustainable foundation for future capabilities.
• Technical solutions align with architecture, security, and supportability standards.
• Software changes follow recognised engineering practices and a controlled SDLC.
• Vendor-delivered changes meet OSPRI standards, are documented and able to be supported internally.
• Platform improvements reduce risk, manual effort or operational pain points.
• Living our values daily.

Kōrero mōu - About you
You’re an experienced, pragmatic senior software developer who enjoys solving complex problems, modernising critical systems, and delivering high-quality solutions collaboratively. With proven end-to-end software development lifecycle experience and a passion for engineering best practices. You take ownership of outcomes, share knowledge openly, and balance innovation with security, reliability, and long-term supportability.

You naturally align with Kotahitanga | Stronger Together, collaborating openly and sharing knowledge to achieve better outcomes, and Ka Tūtuki ā Mātou Mahi | We Deliver, taking ownership and seeing high-quality solutions through to completion.

You will bring:

• Proven experience delivering and supporting enterprise applications using C# and .NET Core/.NET (minimum 5 years).
• Experience building and integrating APIs, web services, and cloud-based solutions.
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting secure, scalable, and maintainable enterprise applications.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, including application hosting, integration, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated cloud deployment and management.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server, including SQL stored procedures and performance optimisation.
• Experience producing technical designs and contributing to solution architecture for application development, system integration, and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Experience modernising legacy applications and reducing technical debt.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical, supportable technical solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills, with experience working alongside business stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external vendors to deliver high-quality technology solutions and business outcomes.
• Ability to mentor others and contribute to technical standards and best practices.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a passion for delivering high-quality outcomes.

In return we offer:

• A purpose-led organisation where values genuinely guide how we work
• A supportive, inclusive and collaborative team environment
• Work that contributes to New Zealand’s biosecurity and farming communities
• Flexible working options
• OSPRI days – paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness, Trauma and Lifecare insurance
• Wellbeing leave and a paid volunteer day
• Study assistance and development opportunities
• The ability to purchase additional annual leave
• Eye care allowance
• Parental/Partner’s leave benefits

Me pēhea te tono – How to apply
Click "Apply for this role" and submit your CV along with a cover letter outlining your experience and how you align with OSPRI's purpose and values.

Applications close at 5:00pm Sunday 11 October 2026.

Please note: Eligibility to work in New Zealand is required. This role is subject to a Ministry of Justice criminal history check and pre-employment drug and alcohol testing.

OSPRI supports a workplace of diversity, equity and inclusion where our people feel welcomed, valued and supported to do their best work. If you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know.