Product Engineer II – ArcGIS Arcade

Esri; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 37,080 - 58,092; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Esri’s R&D Center in Cardiff is seeking a diligent GIS software tester to help advance ArcGIS Arcade. You will join the ArcGIS Pro development team to test new features, validate datasets and scripting workflows, and contribute to high-quality releases in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with engineers, contribute to documentation, and explore AI-assisted code generation to improve usability for GIS professionals worldwide. Relocation assistance is available.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of GIS experience in relevant environment.
• Proficiency with ArcGIS or QGIS.
• Strong problem-solving and analytic skills.
• Initiative and creativity to explore, investigate, test and validate software behavior.
• Experience scripting or coding to understand end users' challenges and to communicate with the development team.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.
• Existing work authorisation for the United Kingdom.
• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, geography, computer science, engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Apply curiosity and attention to detail to understand ArcGIS user challenges and provide feedback on UX.
• Build GIS datasets and maps, sample apps and articles to highlight capabilities and explain scripting functions.
• Collaborate with development teams to design, create, and validate datasets and GIS workflows for visualization, labeling, and attributes.
• Describe GIS best practices and demonstrate how to apply workflows in meetings, forums, and publications.
• Learn about AI code generation to explore issues and prototype enhancements.
• Build focused test code representing complex scenarios for regression testing.
• Administer, automate, and manage online GIS systems and services to support product features and releases.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytic skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Initiative

Coding/scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in GIS, geography, computer science, engineering, or related field

Master’s degree in GIS, computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

ArcGIS

QGIS

Git

Job description

Bring your enthusiasm and knowledge of GIS customization to help build and test advancements to ArcGIS Arcade. Arcade is used by organisations around the world to customize their workflows, QA/QC data input, and create cutting edge visualisations. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the product development team and support the delivery of regular, high-quality releases in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Help us improve our Arcade functional capabilities, test routines, and documentation as part of the ArcGIS Pro development team developing Arcade. You’ll also collaborate with engineers on other products to ensure seamless integration across ArcGIS.

Esri has a Relocation Assistance Program and can provide support with relocating to the Cardiff, UK area for this position. Check out more details of the Esri R&D Center – Cardiff!

Responsibilities

• Apply curious, independent thought, and attention to detail to explore and understand the challenges that ArcGIS users face and provide usable, informative feedback on user experience
• Build rich and varied GIS datasets and maps, sample applications and articles that can be used to highlight product capabilities, explain scripting functions, and guide scripting best practices
• Work with your development team, and teams across Esri, to design, create, and validate the newest datasets and GIS workflows to support visualisation, map labelling, pop-ups, attribute rules and verify the functionality meets user workflows and is consistent with Esri ecosystem
• Describe GIS best practices and demonstrate how to apply these GIS workflows in internal team meetings, on product forums and websites, with customers, at Esri events, or in publications like the ArcGIS Blog
• Learn about and collaborate in AI code generation experiences to explore issues, investigate problems, and design and prototype enhancements
• Build focused test code to represent complex situations for investigation and regression testing
• Administer, automate, and manage online and database GIS systems and services to support the development of new product features and ongoing product releases

Requirements

• 2+ years of GIS experience (such as modeling, analyzing, or presenting geospatial data in a scientific, engineering, governmental, or post graduate academic environment)
• Proficiency with mapping, spatial data or GIS platforms such as ArcGIS or QGIS
• Strong problem-solving and analytic skills
• Proven initiative and creativity to find ways to explore, investigate, test and validate software behavior
• Experience of, and interest in, scripting or coding to appreciate our end users' challenges and to communicate effectively with the development team
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, geography, computer science, engineering, or related field
• Existing work authorisation for the United Kingdom

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience and passion for working with cartography, mapping or geospatial data
• Interest in or knowledge of AI code generation and development tools
• Proven experience of user communication and education such as having been responsible for product documentation, blogs, written or video tutorials, presentations
• Familiarity using version control systems such as Git, for documentation and code
• Master’s degree in GIS, computer science, engineering, or related field

Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is £37,080 - £58,092.

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