Overview
We are seeking a Senior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Engineer for a 6-month remote contract position. The successful candidate will collaborate with a multidisciplinary Agile team to design, build, and support modern cloud-native geospatial data services for critical national decision-making. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale geospatial processing projects and deliver high-quality services for analytics and operational applications.
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable geospatial processing pipelines to integrate spatial datasets from multiple sources.
- Design and support geospatial data platforms and services within a multidisciplinary team.
- Implement geospatial data ingestion, transformation, validation, storage, and publishing pipelines.
- Consume and publish geospatial data via RESTful and OGC-compliant APIs.
- Optimize spatial datasets and services for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Contribute to solution architecture, technical standards, and automated testing processes.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior GIS / Geospatial Consultant in large-scale environments.
- Strong consultancy experience with a background in multidisciplinary team collaboration.
- Demonstrable skills in designing and supporting scalable geospatial data services.
- Deep knowledge of geospatial data formats, such as GeoPackage and GeoTIFF.
- Hands-on experience with open-source geospatial technologies like GDAL, QGIS, and OpenLayers.
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and modern data architectures.
- Experience with version control, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.