Senior Geospatial Research Analyst / Production Manager

SOS International; Florida; On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SOSi is seeking a Senior Geospatial Research Analyst / Production Manager to lead geospatial intelligence production for a DoD customer. The role focuses on delivering analytics, dashboards, and data visualizations while ensuring metadata governance and interoperability across platforms.

The candidate will oversee QA, workflow prioritization, and license management for ArcGIS Enterprise services, coordinating with program teams to ensure timely delivery and data traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geospatial Science, GIS, Remote Sensing, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics or related field.
• Minimum five years creating geospatial analytic products or supporting DoD geospatial/all-source analysis and production.
• Experience supervising analysis, research, and production activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead production of geospatial intelligence products aligned with priorities and stakeholder needs.
• Oversee QA and metadata tagging of geospatial layers for interoperability and governance.
• Manage workflows and production schedules to ensure timely geospatial reports and dashboards.
• Coordinate access to ArcGIS Enterprise services and license management for analysts and tools.
• Register datasets in the program data catalog to ensure traceability and metadata compliance.
• Submit Geospatial Production & Metadata Compliance Report summarizing development cycles.

Skills

Geospatial analytics

All-source intelligence

AI/ML awareness

Data governance

Esri ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro

Python

R

JSON

SQL

OSINT

Education

Geography degree

Geospatial/GIS field

Tools

ArcGIS Enterprise

Geospatial data catalogs

Job description

Senior Geospatial Research Analyst / Production Manager

• Full-time
• Clearance Requirement: Top Secret

Founded in 1989, SOSi is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to enable national security missions worldwide.

**This position is contingent upon contract award**

SOSi is seeking a Senior Geospatial Research Analyst / Production Managerto support mission requirements for a structured approach to further develop, integrate, and sustain a scalable, federated data ecosystem that enhances interoperability, governance, and mission-driven analytics for a DoD customer. The primary objective of the program is to bridge the operational gaps between DoD, IC, interagency, and non-traditional international partners to enable real-time information sharing, dynamic data integration, and mission-tailored analytical capabilities.

• Lead the production of geospatial intelligence products, ensuring alignment with analytical priorities and stakeholder requirements.
• Oversee quality assurance and metadata tagging of geospatial layers, ensuring compliance with interoperability standards and governance policies.
• Manage workflow prioritization and production schedules, ensuring timely delivery of geospatial reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Coordinate for access to core ArcGIS Enterprise services and for integration of analytic layers and ingestion workflows. The contractor shall also coordinate to ensure any required ARCGIS analyst licenses or toolsets are validated, tracked, and procured in alignment with program-wide license management policies.
• Coordinate for access to core ArcGIS Enterprise services and for integration of analytic layers and ingestion workflows.
• Coordinate to access and register relevant datasets in the program's data catalog to support traceability, searchability, and metadata compliance.
• Coordinate to ensure any required ARCGIS analyst licenses or toolsets are validated, tracked, and procured, or alternative process as coordinated through the Government PM and COR, and in alignment with program-wide license management policies.
• Submit the Geospatial Production & Metadata Compliance Report, summarizing product development cycles and adherence to metadata governance frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geospatial Science, GIS, Remote Sensing, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics or a closely related field; or
  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience creating geospatial analytic products in these fields of study or supporting DoD geospatial and all-source analysis and production, including supervising analysis, research, and production.
• Proposed personnel possess the expertise, knowledge, and capability to both apply and lead geospatial analytics and all-source intelligence methodologies, theories, and frameworks; and AI/ML, data quality, enrichment, and stewardship processes and techniques to research to:
  • Solve and articulate complex geospatial and all-source intelligence analytic problems.
  • Develop and oversee data stewardship techniques best practices.
  • Collaborate with other data providers and analysts to improve access to key data and lead the curation of country and regional pages on program.
  • Leverage the knowledge of peers to better understand analytic trends and initiatives.
  • Working knowledge of Esri ArcGIS Enterprise systems and data steward tools, catalogs, techniques, and processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications or training in Esri GIS or related technologies (e.g., ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS REST API), Python, R, JSON, HTML/XML, SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), and All-Source Intelligence analytic methodology are advantageous but not required.
• Normal office conditions.

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.