GIS Engineer

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Description

• Seeking an experienced GIS Data Engineer to join the team. • Ideal candidate will be a seasoned Postgres database engineer with leadership capabilities. • Skilled in supporting open-source and ESRI technologies in both front-end and back-end environments. • Strong background in working with geospatial scientific data in an analytic capacity is highly desirable.

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall professional experience. • 8+ years working with open-source and COTS GIS software and databases (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS, SDE) and their associated APIs or interfaces. • Knowledge of best practices in data management, standards, quality, and interoperability. • Proven ability to manage, convert, and maintain large volumes of vector geodata (e.g., shapefiles, geospatial databases, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, etc.). • Hands-on experience maintaining, querying, and performing spatial analysis in PostGIS spatial databases and/or SQL Server Spatial/Oracle Spatial. • Skilled in modeling, manipulating, processing, optimizing, and extracting value from large, complex, disconnected GIS datasets. • Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, R) with demonstrated experience in data-centric environments. • Experience with geospatial Big Data pipelines, analysis techniques, and tools. • Familiarity with services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Glue, etc. • Promotes team engagement, psychological safety, and Agile practices such as paired programming, jam sessions, and knowledge sharing. • Values innovation, experimentation, and rapid prototyping to generate insights. • Encourages coding best practices, including CI/CD, source control, SDLC, and technical debt management. • Partners with Product Owners to prioritize the backlog and provides rough estimates in ambiguous situations. • Demonstrates strong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and collaboration abilities.