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Geospatial Data Systems Engineer

GRVTYMcLean🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills in geospatial data processing, visualization, and analytics, directly impacting critical decision-making. You'll thrive here if you're a cleared geospatial technologist passionate about bridging data curation and advanced analytics with Python and ArcGIS. Apply to leverage your expertise and make a significant contribution.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Location
McLean, United States
Posted
4 hours ago
Machine LearningTableauAgileConfluenceEEOCGISJiraKibanaPostgreSQLPython

Job Description

What Impact You'll Have

This role requires a cleared geospatial technologist who can bridge two mission offices: one focused on geospatial data curation, ArcGIS Portal products, and operational visualization; the other focused on data processing, analytics, and Tableau-driven reporting. The subcontractor will be part geospatial programmer, part data librarian, and part visualization developer. The subcontractor will use Python to process and analyze large geospatial datasets, manage and curate authoritative data holdings, maintain ArcGIS Portal content, and build dashboards, web maps, feature layers, and visual analytics products that help mission users make faster, better-informed decisions. 

What You'll be Owning

  • 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. 
  • Integrate structured, unstructured, tabular, and spatial datasets into cohesive analytical and visualization environments. 
  • Support geospatial data library functions, including dataset organization, metadata creation, version management, quality control, discoverability, and lifecycle maintenance. 
  • Develop documentation, data dictionaries, standard operating procedures, user guidance, and technical recommendations that support repeatable data management and visualization workflows. 
  • Work independently across two office environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

What You Must Have

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance
  • Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years of experience with a Master’s degree; or 6 years of experience with a Doctorate 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 
  • 8+ 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. 
  • Demonstrated experience working with large geospatial datasets, including cleaning, formatting, joining, enriching, validating, and preparing data for analysis or publication. 
  • 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 developing dashboards, reports, or analytic visualizations in Tableau or a comparable business intelligence platform. 
  • Understanding of geospatial data formats, projections, coordinate systems, spatial joins, geoprocessing workflows, cartographic principles, and spatial data management. 
  • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS, for storing, querying, and managing spatial or tabular data. 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and customer engagement skills. 
  • Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance while coordinating effectively across teams, offices, and mission stakeholders. 

What Would be 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 building repeatable data pipelines for geospatial data ingestion, processing, validation, and publication. 
  • 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. 
  • Background in spatial statistics, predictive analytics, machine learning, or advanced geospatial modeling. 

Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

Virginia Pay Range

 $150,000-$250,000

 

 

Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

 

Virginia Pay Range
$150,000—$250,000 USD

Why Choose GRVTY

The toughest national security challenges demand vision and ingenuity, not just resources. We deliver mission and technical expertise to outpace our adversaries. We’re purpose-built to tackle the most entrenched, systemic national security issues around the world.

We partner with our customers to help them overcome challenges in every corner of technology and defense—including the ones still being explored. Our growing capabilities create complementary advantages, giving on-the-ground operations the edge they need to succeed. We muster everything we have to answer every challenge presented, every day of our lives.

At GRVTY, we believe that when our employees thrive, our company thrives. That’s why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

•    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

 

EEO Statement

GRVTY, 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 recruiting@grvty.com or call 703-544-7930 with requested details.  A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (eeoc.gov)  

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.

 

 

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