Geospatial Data Systems Engineer

What Impact Youll Have

This role requires a cleared geospatial technologist who can bridge two mission offices: one focused on geospatial data curation ArcGIS Portal products and operational visualization; the other focused on data processing analytics and Tableau-driven reporting. The subcontractor will be part geospatial programmer part data librarian and part visualization developer. The subcontractor will use Python to process and analyze large geospatial datasets manage and curate authoritative data holdings maintain ArcGIS Portal content and build dashboards web maps feature layers and visual analytics products that help mission users make faster better-informed decisions.

What Youll be Owning

• Partner with mission users to understand geospatial data needs analytic questions visualization requirements and operational workflows.
• Identify acquire clean transform validate curate and publish large geospatial and tabular datasets from diverse sources.
• Develop Python scripts and tools to automate geospatial data processing quality control enrichment transformation and publication workflows.
• Manage and update ArcGIS Portal content including hosted feature layers map services web maps dashboards data hubs and related geospatial products.
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards reports and analytic visualizations used by the data processing office and mission stakeholders.
• Apply sound cartographic design symbology labeling layer management metadata practices and performance tuning to improve the usability of geospatial products.
• Integrate structured unstructured tabular and spatial datasets into cohesive analytical and visualization environments.
• Support geospatial data library functions including dataset organization metadata creation version management quality control discoverability and lifecycle maintenance.
• Develop documentation data dictionaries standard operating procedures user guidance and technical recommendations that support repeatable data management and visualization workflows.
• Work independently across two office environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What You Must Have

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance
• Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelors degree; or 7 years of experience with a Masters degree; or 6 years of experience with a Doctorate
• Bachelors degree in Geography GIS Computer Science Data Science Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 8 years of professional experience in geospatial technology software development data engineering data analysis or a related technical field.
• Strong Python experience for geospatial data processing automation transformation analysis and workflow improvement.
• Demonstrated experience working with large geospatial datasets including cleaning formatting joining enriching validating and preparing data for analysis or publication.
• Hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise ArcGIS Portal or ArcGIS Online including publishing and maintaining hosted feature layers web maps dashboards and geospatial content.
• Experience curating geospatial data holdings including organizing datasets maintaining metadata improving discoverability and ensuring data quality.
• Experience developing dashboards reports or analytic visualizations in Tableau or a comparable business intelligence platform.
• Understanding of geospatial data formats projections coordinate systems spatial joins geoprocessing workflows cartographic principles and spatial data management.
• Experience with relational databases preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS for storing querying and managing spatial or tabular data.
• Strong analytical problem-solving communication and customer engagement skills.
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance while coordinating effectively across teams offices and mission stakeholders.

What Would be Nice to Have

• Advanced Tableau experience including dashboard development calculated fields filters data preparation publishing and maintaining products for operational users.
• Experience with ArcGIS Pro ArcPy GeoPandas Shapely Fiona Rasterio GDAL QGIS or similar geospatial tools and libraries.
• Experience building repeatable data pipelines for geospatial data ingestion processing validation and publication.
• Experience with cloud-hosted datasets Amazon S3 ArcGIS Hub-style environments or secure integrations between enterprise data repositories and ArcGIS Portal.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS performance tuning spatial indexing and geospatial query optimization.
• Experience with Elasticsearch Kibana or similar search analytics and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with data governance data stewardship metadata standards data quality Agile practices Jira Confluence DevOps principles version control or containerized workflows.
• Background in spatial statistics predictive analytics machine learning or advanced geospatial modeling.

Virginia Pay Range

$150000-$250000

Why Choose GRVTY

The toughest national security challenges demand vision and ingenuity not just resources. We deliver mission and technical expertise to outpace our adversaries. Were purpose-built to tackle the most entrenched systemic national security issues around the world.

We partner with our customers to help them overcome challenges in every corner of technology and defenseincluding the ones still being explored. Our growing capabilities create complementary advantages giving on-the-ground operations the edge they need to succeed. We muster everything we have to answer every challenge presented every day of our lives.

At GRVTY we believe that when our employees thrive our company thrives. Thats why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being growth and work-life balance.

Robust health plan including medical dental and vision

Health Savings Account with company contribution

Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

401k with generous company match

Training and Development Opportunities

Award Programs

Variety of Company Sponsored Events

EEO Statement

GRVTY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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