Geographic Information Systems Specialist

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 70 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company is seeking a Geographic Information Systems Specialist for a long-term remote contract with a Maryland public sector modernization program. The role focuses on producing, validating, and maintaining authoritative spatial datasets for address assignment and district boundary management.

Responsibilities include creating and updating base maps, maintaining spatial databases, data quality assessment, metadata completion, and supporting geocoding and boundary

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Cartography, Computer Science, or related field with GIS coursework.
• Two years of professional GIS, cartography, CAD, or related experience.
• Hands-on experience producing and correcting base maps, thematic data, and spatial databases.
• Experience validating spatial data and completing formal metadata documentation.
• Familiarity with address data, street centerline files, and boundary datasets.
• Authorized to work in the United States; work from within the continental United States.
• Must pass a criminal history background check annually; available during Eastern Time business hours.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct GIS program activities to produce maps, spatial databases, and thematic data.
• Create, adjust, correct, convert, and distribute base maps and thematic data.
• Digitize and maintain spatial databases, document procedures, validate data, and produce maps.
• Support management of geospatial data underpinning address assignment and district boundary maintenance.
• Import, convert, and reconcile GIS data from multiple external sources and map to street files.
• Support geocoding of address records and resolve unmatched addresses to maintain accuracy.
• Evaluate external data for quality and fitness for production use.
• Provide coordinates, calculate distances/areas, and interpret boundary changes.

Conhecimentos

Geospatial analysis

Data quality control

Metadata management

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Geography / GIS / related field

Ferramentas

FME Desktop

ArcGIS / QGIS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This is a remote position. Work Arrangement: Remote Location: Remote (United States) Employment Type: Contract Engagement Type: Contract Position Summary Dhaka Technologies Limited Company is hiring a Geographic Information Systems Specialist on behalf of a client supporting a statewide public sector system modernization program in Maryland. The role is focused on the production, quality, and maintenance of the authoritative spatial datasets that support address assignment and district boundary management. The successful candidate will build and correct base maps and thematic data, maintain spatial databases of Maryland information, assess the quality of data received from outside sources, and serve as a point of reference for business users working with those datasets. This is a long term, remote engagement with a multi year contract horizon.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct GIS program activities using GIS hardware and software to produce maps, spatial databases, and thematic data such as road centerlines, cadastre, wetlands, and historic sites.
• Create, adjust, correct, convert, and distribute base maps and thematic data.
• Digitize and maintain spatial databases of Maryland information, document procedures, validate data for accuracy and completeness, complete approved metadata forms, and produce maps of the resulting information.
• Support the management of geospatial data underpinning address assignment and district boundary maintenance, including street centerlines, address ranges, precincts, and census blocks.
• Import, convert, and reconcile GIS data received from multiple external sources, and map imported spatial files to the street file used by the production system.
• Support geocoding of address records and resolve unmatched or ambiguous addresses to maintain assignment accuracy.
• Evaluate information and data from outside sources to determine the quality and fitness of that data for production use.
• Provide geographic location coordinates, calculate distances and areas of features, and interpret legal descriptions and certify changes in boundary lines.
• Act as an internal consultant to business users during their use, development, and quality assessment of spatial databases.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS Technology, Cartography, Computer Science, or a related field, including at least nine credit hours in coursework specifically related to GIS operation or management.
• Two years of professional experience in GIS, cartography, Computer Aided Design and Drafting, or a related field.
• Hands on experience producing and correcting base maps, thematic data, and spatial databases.
• Experience validating spatial data for accuracy and completeness and completing formal metadata documentation.
• Familiarity with address data, street centerline files, and boundary datasets.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• All work must be performed from within the continental United States.
• Must pass a criminal history background check prior to start, renewed annually for the duration of the engagement.
• This is a remote position.
• Candidates must be available during Eastern Time business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• GIS Professional (GISP) certification.
• Direct experience supporting redistricting or reapportionment, including precinct and district boundary construction and precinct split logic.
• Experience with census geography, TIGER files, and census block level data.
• Experience interpreting legal descriptions and certifying changes in boundary lines.
• Experience with spatial ETL tooling, for example FME Desktop or FME Server.
• Prior experience delivering GIS work on a state or local government program.
• Maryland residency of three years or more, which streamlines the background check process.