Remote Geospatial Data Engineer for FAA Data Pipelines

Network Designs; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is seeking a Geospatial Data Engineer to build, automate, publish, and sustain geospatial pipelines, services, and analytical products for FAA data initiatives. This remote role requires U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, well-documented GIS solutions, BI dashboards, and spatial analyses while adhering to FAA and federal policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a similar discipline, or three years of military experience in a qualified geospatial analysis role.
• Minimum 4 years of demonstrable experience developing geospatial visualization, analytical, and/or business intelligence products in an enterprise environment.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work with sensitive, confidential, or regulated information and follow FAA and federal policies and procedures.
• Ability to use FAA-issued accounts and Government-designated collaboration and task-tracking systems as required

Responsibilities

• Document architecture and data flows for geospatial ETL automation into enterprise geodatabases and ArcGIS data stores.
• Develop reusable Python code using ArcGIS Python API, ArcPy, GeoPandas, and GDAL to create and maintain geospatial ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Automate publishing and updating of web services from ArcGIS Pro projects and other geospatial formats to ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online.
• Manage Python environments and package dependencies and coordinate deployment and configuration on approved automation servers.
• Design refresh schedules, production automation, monitoring, alerting, and rapid response procedures for ETL and publishing failures.
• Configure, optimize, and sustain GIS server integrations, SaaS tools, cloud-installed solutions and associated AWS resources.
• Support security assessments, technical responses, vulnerability mitigations, configuration documentation, and compliance activities.
• Collaborate with geospatial users and user communities to execute data calls, respond to policy and datum changes, and translate analytical needs into maps, dashboards, services, and spatial analyses.
• Validate data accuracy, consistency, and integrity and present findings and recommendations to technical and mission stakeholders.

Skills

Geospatial analysis

Python

ArcGIS

Data visualization

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Military geospatial experience

Tools

ArcGIS Server

ArcGIS Pro

ArcPy

GeoPandas

GDAL

AWS

Job description

Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is seeking a Geospatial Data Engineer to build, automate, publish, and sustain geospatial pipelines, services, and analytical products for FAA data initiatives. This remote role requires U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, well-documented GIS solutions, BI dashboards, and spatial analyses while adhering to FAA and federal policies and procedures.