Job Title: GIS Consultant
Location: Washington, DC
Contract Length: 6 months +
Responsibilities:
- The position’s essential duties include the following:
- Serve as technical team lead in the development of GIS System, providing mentoring, guidance and troubleshooting to analysis team members in solving complex reporting and analytical problems
- Build and implement web mapping applications using technologies such as: Boundless Suite, CARTO, MapBox, Google Maps API, Leaflet, etc.
- Utilize Open Geo suite of software applications with relational databases including PostGres and Vertica.
- Install/configure various components of OpenGeo stack of products – GeoServer, OpenLayers, PostGIS, QGIS
- Complete documentation of datasets and processes.
- Ability to overlay maps with different layers
- Coordination of some short- and long-term enterprise GIS projects
- Provide geospatial support to internal and external teams with data development, data scrubbing and analysis, on-line and hardcopy map creation, setup of ETL processes, training, and setup of field data collection apps.
- Create and maintain web map applications published, analyze and prepare statistics on spatial and non-spatial data within relational databases.
- Prepare and execute workflows and geoprocessing models using Python.
- Prepare and execute queries in spatial and non-spatial databases using SQL.
- Develop and maintain geospatial datasets including those stored in relational databases.
- Conduct end user training on GIS system
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
Type of Experience Years of Experience
- Knowledge of Relational Databases 7 years
- Requirements Gathering 7 years
- Pentaho PDI/ Kettle 5 years
- ETL using open data tools 4 years
- Configuring web map services for data dissemination 4 years
NOTE: In addition, please list any desired experience.
- Web Mapping Services /Web Feature Service
- Creating visual displays for data analysis and presentation
- Prefer experience with State, Federal & local government agencies.
- Expertise working with Census, ACS data sets.
SPECIAL SKILLS:
- Ability to Install, configure Boundless Open Geo Stack of products.
- Ability to create Maps using QGIS and publishing it on GeoServer
- Ability to translate logical models into physical implementation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are an absolute must.
- Ability to work well under pressure and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Outstanding analytic skills—in particular, an ability to translate an unstructured strategic question into a structured program of research, to disaggregate potential drivers of performance, to explore relationships between multiple pieces of data, and to test and identify the drivers underlying performance measures
- Outstanding ability to synthesize research results into actionable strategies and recommendations
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present effectively to small and large groups.
- Energetic, organized, detail-oriented
- Consistent ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Must be strong self-starter able to work independently under limited supervision
- Ability to build consensus and to work through others in achieving desired results and objectives.
- Consistent ability to set and deliver against a work plan in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to foster a cooperative work environment and to freely give and receive feedback
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
- Ability to lift 15 – 25 pounds
- General computer and presentation skills
- Customer and results oriented
If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184.
