Required Skills & Experience
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Geospatial Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Appropriate Security Clearance
- Five or more years of professional GIS or geospatial data-management experience.
- Experience using ArcPro or another comparable desktop GIS application.
- Experience working with multiple geospatial data types, formats, and sources.
- Experience maintaining or updating geodatabases.
- Experience working with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS or comparable spatial database technology.
- Experience creating, editing, transforming, and validating spatial geometries.
- Experience with topology creation, maintenance, and validation.
- Experience managing geospatial attribution, schemas, domains, subtypes, and metadata.
- Experience performing data compatibility testing, quality control, and quality assurance.
- Strong SQL skills and the ability to investigate and resolve data issues.
- Experience developing or executing repeatable data-validation or quality-assessment procedures.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL/PostGIS migration.
- Experience with Python, ArcPy, or other scripting tools for geospatial automation and data validation.
- Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal for ArcGIS, hosted feature services, map services, and web maps.
- Experience with ArcGIS Experience Builder, Dashboards, StoryMaps, Survey123, Field Maps, QuickCapture, or Instant Apps.
- Experience integrating data from APIs, web services, imagery sources, or other external systems.
- Experience working with large or complex geospatial datasets.
- Experience with enterprise data modeling and geospatial database design.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense or Intelligence Community customers.
- ESRI technical certification or comparable professional training.
- Active security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Create, edit, update, and maintain geospatial data using ArcGIS Pro/QGIS.
- Work with a variety of geospatial data types and sources, including vector, raster, imagery, web services, and externally provided datasets.
- Maintain and update global geospatial datasets within enterprise geodatabases.
- Support the transition of geospatial data from Oracle to PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
- Create, modify, and validate spatial geometries, including points, lines, polygons, and other geometry types.
- Maintain spatial topology and identify, resolve, and document topology errors.
- Create, update, and validate feature attributes, domains, subtypes, schemas, and related metadata.
- Perform data transformations, migrations, conflation, and integration activities as required.
- Develop and execute data tests to evaluate compatibility with target systems, applications, schemas, and databases.
- Conduct data quality control and quality assurance reviews to identify errors, inconsistencies, missing information, invalid geometries, and attribution issues.
- Develop repeatable procedures for data validation, quality assessment, and error tracking.
- Perform spatial analysis and produce accurate, well-designed geospatial products.
- Troubleshoot data, database issues.
- Support the publication and maintenance of GIS services, web maps, and geodatabases.
- Document data sources, processing steps, validation procedures, identified issues, and corrective actions.
- Collaborate with developers, database administrators, project managers, system administrators, and mission stakeholders to resolve data and application issues.
- Stay current with relevant ArcGIS, QGIS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and geospatial data-management capabilities.