Vantor

Vantor

Senior Geospatial Data Engineer

McLean, VA · Senior · Contract

No sponsorship$137k-$182kDetected 26 days ago
TypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLElasticsearchDevOpsMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationStatisticsCybersecurityAgileJiraConfluenceGISCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next.
  • Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status.
  • Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Responsibilities

  • You will support two complementary mission areas:
  • Manage, curate, publish, and maintain geospatial datasets, hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and data products in ArcGIS Portal. Ensure mission users have access to accurate, well-organized, current, and usable geospatial information.
  • Use Python, Tableau, ArcGIS, and related tools to process large datasets, automate workflows, prepare data for analysis, and build visual analytics products that reveal patterns, trends, anomalies, and operationally relevant insights.
  • Partner with mission users to understand geospatial data needs, analytic questions, visualization requirements, and operational workflows.
  • Identify, acquire, clean, transform, validate, curate, and publish large geospatial and tabular datasets from diverse sources.
  • Develop Python scripts and tools to automate geospatial data processing, quality control, enrichment, transformation, and publication workflows.
  • Manage and update ArcGIS Portal content, including hosted feature layers, map services, web maps, dashboards, data hubs, and related geospatial products.
  • Build and maintain Tableau dashboards, reports, and analytic visualizations used by the data processing office and mission stakeholders.
  • Apply sound cartographic design, symbology, labeling, layer management, metadata practices, and performance tuning to improve the usability of geospatial products.
  • Support geospatial data library functions, including dataset organization, metadata creation, version management, quality control, discoverability, and lifecycle maintenance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 12+ years of professional experience in geospatial technology, software development, data engineering, data analysis, or a related technical field.
  • Strong Python experience for geospatial data processing, automation, transformation, analysis, and workflow improvement.
  • Hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Portal, or ArcGIS Online, including publishing and maintaining hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and geospatial content.
  • Experience curating geospatial data holdings, including organizing datasets, maintaining metadata, improving discoverability, and ensuring data quality.
  • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS, for storing, querying, and managing spatial or tabular data.
  • Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance while coordinating effectively across teams, offices, and mission stakeholders.
  • To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Citizen.

Nice to have

  • Advanced Tableau experience, including dashboard development, calculated fields, filters, data preparation, publishing, and maintaining products for operational users.
  • Experience with ArcGIS Pro, ArcPy, GeoPandas, Shapely, Fiona, Rasterio, GDAL, QGIS, or similar geospatial tools and libraries.
  • Experience with cloud-hosted datasets, Amazon S3, ArcGIS Hub-style environments, or secure integrations between enterprise data repositories and ArcGIS Portal.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS performance tuning, spatial indexing, and geospatial query optimization.
  • Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, or similar search, analytics, and visualization tools.
  • Familiarity with data governance, data stewardship, metadata standards, data quality, Agile practices, Jira, Confluence, DevOps principles, version control, or containerized workflows.
  • The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate's experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.

Skills

  • Geospatial Data Curation, Portal, and Visualization
  • Ensure mission users have access to accurate, well-organized, current, and usable geospatial information.
  • Data Processing, Analytics, and Tableau Reporting

Compensation

  • To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings.
  • Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions.
  • Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range.
  • The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate's experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.
  • The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $137,000.00 - $182,000.00 - $200,200.00 annually.

Benefits

  • You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

Company info

  • Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters-where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently.

Equal opportunity

  • Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.
  • We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
  • EEO Policy: Vantor is an

Visa & Work Authorization

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