Geospatial Database Engineer for Vaccine Microplanning

paho; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PAHO/WHO seeks a consultant to design, implement, and validate a cloud-based geospatial database layer supporting measles vaccination microplanning. The role focuses on data integration, quality, and scalable data management for multi-source inputs.

The consultant will define data models, schemas, and workflows using PostgreSQL/PostGIS or equivalent cloud services, ensuring secure, interoperable, and performant data products for backend services and user interfaces.

Qualifications

• Specialized in database engineering, geospatial databases, data integration, and data quality.
• Experience in cloud-based geospatial systems.
• Ability to design and implement database structures for vaccination microplanning.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, document, and validate database engineering components.
• Define conceptual, logical, and implementation data models for the solution.
• Configure development and cloud deployment environments with security considerations.
• Develop ETL/ELT pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and quality assurance.

Skills

Database engineering

Geospatial databases

Data integration

Data quality

Tools

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Job description

PAHO/WHO seeks a consultant to design, implement, and validate a cloud-based geospatial database layer supporting measles vaccination microplanning. The role focuses on data integration, quality, and scalable data management for multi-source inputs.

The consultant will define data models, schemas, and workflows using PostgreSQL/PostGIS or equivalent cloud services, ensuring secure, interoperable, and performant data products for backend services and user interfaces.