Senior Geospatial Data Scientist - Climate & Water

Doktar; Fatih; Hybrid; TRY 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

State-of-the-art facilities

Professional development

Performance bonus system

Company share options

Job summary

Doktar is seeking a Senior Geospatial Data Scientist to join our Istanbul-based hybrid team. You will contribute to basin-scale water stress assessments, climate-risk analytics, and geospatial modelling using satellite and climate data.

You will transform complex earth observation datasets into actionable insights, develop reproducible pipelines, and collaborate across AI/ML, geospatial, and sustainability initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in geospatial data science, remote sensing, Earth observation analytics, or GeoAI.
• Strong hands-on Python skills with data processing and modelling.
• Experience with Python-based geospatial workflows including GeoPandas, Rasterio, Xarray/Rioxarray, GDAL, Earth Engine, and QGIS.
• Solid understanding of raster and vector data processing and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Familiarity with satellite and climate datasets such as Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, GRACE, ERA5, CHIRPS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain remote sensing workflows for water, climate, and agricultural analytics.
• Work with satellite datasets such as Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, GRACE, ERA5, and CHIRPS.
• Support basin-scale analyses including evapotranspiration, water balance, drought, groundwater.
• Process and analyze raster and vector geospatial data using Python and geospatial tools.
• Build reproducible processing pipelines and automate analysis workflows.
• Within the Data Science team, work across AI/ML, geospatial, and sustainability initiatives to convert environmental signals into practical insights for field operations and sustainability programs.
• Support interpretation, visualization, and technical reporting of environmental and hydro- climatic analyses.
• Contribute to methodology development for satellite-driven sustainability and water-risk assessments.

Skills

Geospatial data science

Remote sensing

Earth observation analytics

GeoAI

Python programming

Data analysis

Tools

GeoPandas

Rasterio

Xarray/Rioxarray

GDAL

Google Earth Engine

QGIS

PostGIS

Docker

Job description

Doktar is seeking a Senior Geospatial Data Scientist to join our Istanbul-based hybrid team. You will contribute to basin-scale water stress assessments, climate-risk analytics, and geospatial modelling using satellite and climate data.

You will transform complex earth observation datasets into actionable insights, develop reproducible pipelines, and collaborate across AI/ML, geospatial, and sustainability initiatives.