Senior Geospatial Data Engineer - McLean

Job Description

Requirements
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### Must have:

### - We require an active TS/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with polygraph. - We require U.S. citizenship, and certain roles may require U.S. person status under export control rules. - We require a bachelors degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - We require 12+ years of professional experience in geospatial technology, software development, data engineering, data analysis, or a similar technical discipline. - We need strong Python expertise for geospatial processing, automation, transformation, analysis, and workflow improvement. - We require experience working with large geospatial datasets, including cleaning, joining, enriching, validating, and preparing data for analysis or publication. - We require hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Portal, or ArcGIS Online, including publishing and maintaining hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and related content. - We require experience curating geospatial holdings, with a focus on organization, metadata, discoverability, and data quality. - We require experience creating dashboards, reports, or visual analytics in Tableau or a similar business intelligence platform. - We require knowledge of geospatial formats, projections, coordinate systems, spatial joins, geoprocessing workflows, cartography, and spatial data management. - We require experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS, for storing, querying, and managing spatial or tabular data. - We require strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and customer engagement skills. - We require the ability to work independently with minimal oversight while coordinating effectively across teams, offices, and mission stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
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- We partner with mission users to understand geospatial data needs, analytical questions, visualization requirements, and operational workflows. - We identify, acquire, clean, transform, validate, curate, and publish large geospatial and tabular datasets from multiple sources. - We develop Python scripts and tools to automate geospatial data processing, quality control, enrichment, transformation, and publication. - We manage and refresh ArcGIS Portal content, including hosted feature layers, map services, web maps, dashboards, data hubs, and other geospatial products. - We build and maintain Tableau dashboards, reports, and analytical visualizations for the data processing office and mission stakeholders. - We apply cartographic best practices, including symbology, labeling, layer management, metadata, and performance tuning, to improve usability. - We integrate structured, unstructured, tabular, and spatial data into unified analytical and visualization environments. - We support geospatial data library activities such as dataset organization, metadata creation, version control, quality checks, discoverability, and lifecycle upkeep. - We create documentation, data dictionaries, SOPs, user guidance, and technical recommendations to support repeatable workflows. - We work independently across two office environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and communicating clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
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Company:
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We are Vantor, a team building the next frontier of spatial intelligence to help decision makers and operators understand what is happening now and anticipate what comes next. This is a mission-driven, hands-on role for a cleared geospatial technologist working across two mission offices, combining geospatial data curation, ArcGIS Portal administration, Python-based data processing, and Tableau-driven reporting. We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance. The base pay for the Washington, DC metropolitan area is $137,000.00 to $200,200.00 annually, with location-based ranges for other states. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and an equal opportunity hiring process.
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