Geospatial Data Engineer

Job Description

Why Choose Royce Geo

We're not your typical government contracting company, nor do we want to be. At Royce Geo, we live for building durable and long-lasting relationships with our clients, providing exceptional service with a CAN'T QUIT / WON'T QUIT attitude.

We are creating a culture of winning, optimism, FUN and caring for the person next to you. If you want to work in a real team environment and share the wealth and satisfaction of providing real value to your customer, then this company may be just for you.

Royce Geo prides ourselves in our values-first approach. Our values of Accountability, Attitude, Communication, Innovation, and Leadership are integrated into how we approach problems, guide our interactions with others, and create the framework for our culture.

We recognize and reward our team members that champion these attributes.

We offer a competitive benefit package that is designed to attract and retain exceptional talent. We take care of our team members from multiple facets including health, financial and well-being programs :

• Robust health plan including medical, dental, and vision
• Health Savings Account with company contribution
• Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with generous company match
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Award Programs
• Variety of Company Sponsored Events

Your Impact

The Geospatial Data Engineer will perform rapid application design, ETL, data analysis, and interpretation. Develops rules and methodologies for data collection, integration, and analysis.

Develop and maintain a Python-based data warehouse processing system running in Google, AWS, and Azure cloud environments.

You will work closely with intelligence analysts, ETL engineers, and database administrators to incorporate new features and scale the application.

Utilize best practices for source control, testing, and deployment of software changes.

We are looking for candidates that are :

• High-speed technologists who enjoy a fast paced and highly rewarding work environment
• Team-players who enjoy collaboration
• Comfortable collaborating closely with Key Customer Stakeholders, Program Managers, and Product Owners
• Able to accomplish multiple sophisticated software development tasks with minimal direction
• Life-long learners You remain engaged with the latest technology trends and understand operational challenges to continually evolve the application delivery process and platform components
• Self-directed and enjoy autonomy to manage your own schedule and workload
• Comfortable working with and recommending various software paradigms and design patterns
• Strong communicators with the ability to explain technical concepts to members across the team
• Able to maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in the architectural design of features early in the development cycle
• Work with Customer Stakeholders, Program Managers, and Product Owners to translate the road map features into management components / tasks, estimate timings, and resources, suggest solutions, and identify possible risk
• Support the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal
• Conduct peer reviews to improve code quality
• Help to follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing, and / or test automation
• Own your code in production, respond to incidents as they occur, and participate in retros to determine how to be better in the future
• Work towards reducing the total number of defects in the module / product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development
• Resolve all critical and high-priority security defects in-sprint, or by the guidelines set by the SecOps team
• Help build high-performing teams, grow and mentor the technical skills within the team and create development opportunities for them

Required Skills

• Active TS / SCI clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field Master's degree is a plus!
• 5+ years of experience as a software or data engineer
• 5+ years of experience developing with Python
• Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python or Javascript and their associated Frameworks and tools
• Experience working in and developing applications & tools across technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Experience with RESTful web services.
• Demonstrated knowledge of open-source and commercial geospatial solutions like GeoServer, MapServer or ESRI ArcGIS
• Practical experience with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based web services such as Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS).
• Experience with container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Understands and familiarity with SDLC concepts such as Agile, DevOps & CICD Delivery Pipelines
• Experience working with large volumes of time series data and building services, APIs, and applications based of it
• Experience working with relational / non-relational databases and understanding of storage technologies (like Postgresql MongoDB and BigQuery)
• Experience with DevOps tools like Git
• Experience with Agile development concepts and related tools

Desired Skills

• Experience working with Node.js development with libraries like React.js and / or Electron
• Experience with remote procedural call technologies. Eg. gRPC and JSON RPC.
• Experience in designing multi-tier application architecture and distributed caching solutions
• Experience in Python parallelization / multiprocessing (e.g. Dask) and vectorization
• Experience with Python web server frameworks like Flask, FastAPI, Pydantic, Gunicorn, Uvicorn
• Knowledge with NLP modules including like NLTK, SpaCy and Gensim
• Knowledge of Geospatial data processing- Libraries include GeoPandas, Folium, Shapely, RasterIO, QGIS and ArcPy
• Knowledge of Python ML stack modules like Scikit-learn, Keras and Tensorflow
• DevOps experience with Google Cloud Platform, Azure and AWS
• Able to generate a REST API with a minimal amount of code

Royce Geo. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email [email protected] with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.

About Royce Geo

Established in 2015, Royce Geo has quickly evolved into a well-rounded, diverse, small business tackling some of the most complex issues for our Defense and Intelligence Community clients.

We are an award-winning small business firm, providing vital support to our mission partners across four core areas : Geospatial Information Technology, Data Analytics, Intelligence, and Training.

Our team members are highly skilled subject matter experts, who listen and partner with our clients to accomplish the mission.

We own the problem and find the solution while upholding the highest standards to exceed expectations. We take risks and challenge the status quo to deliver innovative and cutting-edge solutions.

Our employee-centric company culture is everything. Even while we grow, our small company mentality continues to exist. We demand inspiration from our leadership, and accountability from all so that we can influence others through our actions. This is Royce Geo.