Chantilly VA US 20151
Description
Leidos National Security Sector is seeking a Geospatial Analyst to be part of a team located in Northern Virginia. The Geospatial Analyst will be part of an integrated team made up of both Leidos and government staff. The successful candidate will have strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team. The Geospatial Analyst position will support cartographic production efforts and ArcGIS Online portal map creation for our government customer. Candidates MUST have an active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph to be considered.
Primary Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as a member of a government contractor team supporting custom mapping requests in both hard copy and online portal map formats, managing multiple geospatial projects under minimal supervision, working with customers to define project requirements and provide advice on processes and procedures for optimal visualization. The geospatial production effort contributes to complex intelligence analysis for senior policymakers and our country’s leadership. The custom mapping requests will require the candidate to have a strong cartographic background, with extensive use of ArcGIS software, to include Portal for ArcGIS. As a cartographer, the candidate will be responsible for researching, designing, and producing thematic and reference maps, in support of the customer’s finished intelligence, including presentations, publications, and interactive products. Other geospatial analyst responsibilities will include supporting the development team, doing open-source data collection, working with ESRI-based web applications, such as Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online.
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a BS in Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Computer Science, or related field with demonstrated GIS training or coursework. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
5+ years of experience
Requires BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
This position requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
Expertise with ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro software
Strong understanding of geodatabases and geodatabase applications and the ability to work with vector and raster datasets
Ability to use and edit shapefiles and file geodatabases
Experience working with different coordinate systems, map projections, and datums
Familiarity with standard cartographic methods, theories, and principles
Experience with ESRI-based
Preferred Qualifications
Adobe software such as Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat
Knowledge of webscraping using current web technologies and concepts utilizing python or JavaScript scripting. Understanding of HTML/CSS and JavaScript/REST APIs to use modules such as requests/URLLIB to create custom scripts for data extraction.
Proficient in parsing HTML and JSON data
Familiarity with QGIS
Understand how to code scripts or software routines to perform and control reliable web collection to include use of Python to design, implement, and maintain efficient and reusable code
Ability to research open-source data using public APIs
Original Posting Date:
2025-01-13
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $80,600.00 - $145,700.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Leidos / Equal Opportunity Employer
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