Senior GIS Developer

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, and support server-based geoprocessing tools and automated data-update processes using Python and SQL, helping streamline recurring GIS operations and improve data reliability.
• Build, deploy, maintain, and enhance custom QGIS plugins and forms using Python, PyQGIS, and Qt-based interfaces to support data acquisition, editing, validation, geoprocessing, and integration with other systems.
• Partner with GIS engineering leadership to advance custom GIS tools, system integrations, and solution architecture, while contributing to architecture diagrams and technical design decisions.
• Design and implement organization-wide GIS standards across server, cloud, web, desktop, and enterprise database environments to promote consistency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build and maintain FME Flow or Python-based ETL and scheduled data-processing workflows that automate mapping, data management, and recurring GIS activities.
• Develop and maintain network-routing solutions using shortest-path algorithms while accounting for complex dependencies, constraints, spatial relationships, and business requirements.
• Produce technical documentation, coding standards, workflow guidance, and training materials, while supporting knowledge transfer through demonstrations and remote training sessions.
• Contribute throughout the software-development lifecycle within an Agile/Scrum team, collaborating with technical and business stakeholders to deliver reliable GIS capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline, supported by a strong understanding of geographic concepts and principles, along with 5–7 years of relevant GIS and software-development experience.
• Advanced Python skills applied to GIS automation, geoprocessing, ArcGIS web applications, REST services, and network-analysis workflows, with strong SQL and relational database experience, preferably including PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
• Strong knowledge of Esri ArcGIS technologies, including desktop, online, server, enterprise databases, vector data, geoprocessing, and spatial-analysis capabilities, combined with hands-on QGIS and PyQGIS experience.
• Practical experience creating QGIS plugins, custom processing tools, forms, or workflow extensions, as well as experience with FME-based or Python-driven ETL and automated processing workflows.
• Strong web-development capabilities using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience working with ArcGIS JavaScript APIs, Web AppBuilder, ArcGIS Server services, REST APIs, and other integration technologies.
• Solid understanding of software-development lifecycle practices, source control, testing, debugging, maintainable code design, algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and distributed systems, particularly as applied to spatial and network problems.
• Strong knowledge of vector data, geoprocessing, spatial analysis, coordinate systems, topology, and network-routing concepts, supported by excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience designing or consuming APIs and integrating GIS platforms with external business or operational systems, with strong attention to accuracy, data quality, and technical detail.
• Experience in telecommunications, outside plant (OSP), fiber network inventory, route planning, network design, or other comparable network-oriented environments is highly valuable.
• Demonstrated ability to lead user training, develop technical process documentation, support GIS users across multiple teams, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.

Benefits

• Estimated annual base salary of $95,100–$146,300 USD, with actual compensation determined by factors such as geographic location, experience, skills, certifications, and organizational needs.
• Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive plan for non-sales roles.
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement savings through a 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off, including paid parental leave.
• Remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale GIS, network, spatial-data, automation, and systems-integration initiatives.
• The position does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship or assume responsibility for employment visa or work authorization sponsorship now or in the future.