GIS Engineer Job Description
GIS Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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GIS Engineer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for GIS Engineer
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Education for GIS Engineer
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Employers hiring for the GIS engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Geography, Math, Technical, Education, Electrical Engineering, Graduate, Science, Information Systems
Skills for GIS Engineer
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GIS Engineer Examples
GIS Engineer Job Description
- Creation of design and construction details, including erosion and sediment control drawings using AutoCAD or Microstation
- Utilize technical manuals and directives to ensure compliance with codes and company policies
- Managing users and privileges
- Database versioning
- Reconciling and posting changes
- Designing, building, deploying and maintaining the operational architecture, infrastructure and software stack for our Enterprise GIS Platform
- Building deployment automation scripts
- Designing and implementing robust platform monitoring systems, dashboards and solutions
- Responding to alerts and troubleshooting platform configuration issues
- Developing and deploying Enterprise GIS Services and Data Pipelines
- The geospatial landscape is evolving and our team strives to use the best available tools for the job
- Minimum of ten years software engineer experience
- Shall be highly proficient in developing, administering and deploying custom geospatial and/or applications in support of customer organizations
- Shall possess the ability to create and develop custom tools utilizing RDBMS, NoSQL data stores, Hadoop files stores and/or SOLR indexes
- Performs high level/expert systems architecture design and evaluation
- Shall possess strong oral and written communication skills
GIS Engineer Job Description
- Working closely with business partners and assisting their GIS Development teams with design and development of new GIS Solutions
- Setup and management of continuous integration software build systems for the GIS Platform
- Documenting GIS Services, APIs, User Guides and best practices for end users
- Mentor and raise the game of teammates in all areas
- You’re a tinkerer and love technology - HoloLens, Google Dream, Arduino, RaspberryPi, IoT, AR/VR, Creative Coding
- You’re passionate about GIS and the potential it offers to visualize and solve some of the most complex challenges
- Requirements analysis, design and implementation of the Map Services
- Development of GIS internet mapping software
- Development of AWS Cloudformation automation scripts
- Automated testing scripts
- Works well in a team environment, including a remote team environment
- Proven ability to innovate and drive solutions across multiple teams
- Shall be proficient in C# and Java programming languages
- DoD 8570 Level III Certification (CISSP, CASP)
- Able to work extended periods and be on call
- Experience supporting application development deployed into existing applications as plug-ins cloud environments
GIS Engineer Job Description
- Provide optimised and customised solutions for various substation tenders (AIS, GIS, Hybrid) received from the sales team
- Use creativity wherever appropriate to provide best solutions for the given situation within the framework of tender
- Continuously develop standard templates and databases for tender engineering
- Prepare substation layouts and section drawings for budgetary offers/tenders/projects based on customer specification
- Prepare bill of material for tenders or projects based on requirement
- Ground and light system design, drawings and Bill of Materials (BoM)
- Verify technical data sheets of primary equipment
- Adhere to quality system and contribute to its improvement
- Evaluate vendors by visiting their facilities
- FAT/SAT of primary equipment, system as and when needed
- Experience in writing scripts to automate processes
- Minimum five years increasingly responsible experience in software engineering or technical sales required
- Bachelors Applied Computer Science, BA Computer Applications, Bachelor of Technology, or similar
- 1-2 years of experience in publicly traded companies or finance/technology industry operations
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Geography, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering
- Strong experience with developing applications using industry-standard programming languages such as C++, Java, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET Framework or others
GIS Engineer Job Description
- Take care of CT VT Sizing, Cable sizing wherever required
- Assess and validate tender risk and opportunity
- Offer vetting to 3rd party vendors
- Doing the tender costing, review and submission to sales team
- Evaluates platforms, software libraries, development tools, and processes and makes recommendations that will improve the team's effectiveness and capabilities
- Develops enterprise-level, re-usable software components to create opportunities for faster response to business needs and to reduce the overall cost of future development
- Design and develop great UI for desktop and mobile applications
- Drive and improve UX practices and expertise of your development team
- Collaborate within a scrum team including other software engineers, QA engineers, technical leads and product owners and help doing things right
- Design, develop, test and maintain software in accordance to guidelines, standards and best practices
- 1-5 years experience in GIS Software, ESRI ArcGIS, FME
- Experience in remote server management
- Magik development, XML scripting (to support UI developments) and Datamodelling (preferably using the Smallworld CASE tool) for data model extensions are also highly desirable
- Ability and willingness to travel overnight for consecutive dates as required (up to 40%)
- Experience with requisite Smallworld applications (such as, Core Spatial Technology, Office Suites, Network Inventory, Field Force Automation, etc)
- Knowledge of and experience in Geographic Information Systems
GIS Engineer Job Description
- Commission the ancillary systems
- Control and adjust all adjustable installation parts
- Agreement with the customer concerning the test phase
- Manage all tests and trials
- File in the check lists and data sheets
- Training the customer's personnel to operate the installation
- Create system designs to facilitate the inter-operability of large-scale business systems, featuring GIS and spatial concepts
- Provide leadership and technical direction to team members and monitor the deliverables of the technical team when called upon
- Serve as technical point of contact for business partners and other technology areas
- Work collaboratively with a team to resolve production problems
- More than 3 yrs
- Geospatial Information Systems Software Engineer with at least 10 years of experience
- At least 1 year of experience with Amazon Web Services
- 2 years of experience developing GIS solutions based on the Esri or BoundlessGeo technology stack
- Bachelor’s in GIS, computer science, or related field
- Five years of experience in the position offered or five years of experience as a GIS analyst, product engineer, software designer, or related occupation