Senior Geospatial Data Engineer

Vantor Services Inc. is hiring a Senior Geospatial Data Engineer to help mission teams curate and transform geospatial data into usable ArcGIS Portal content and data-driven analytics. In this onsite role in McLean, VA, you will support geospatial data processing and visualization workflows using Python and Tableau, backed by tools and platforms across the ArcGIS ecosystem. Pay ranges from USD 137,000 to 200,200 per year, based on location and experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage, curate, publish, and maintain geospatial datasets, hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and data products in ArcGIS Portal.
• Ensure mission users have accurate, well-organized, current, and usable geospatial information.
• Use Python, Tableau, ArcGIS, and related tools to process large datasets, automate workflows, prepare data for analysis, and deliver visual analytics that surface patterns, trends, anomalies, and operationally relevant insights.
• 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 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 for the data processing office and mission stakeholders.
• Apply cartographic design, symbology, labeling, layer management, metadata practices, and performance tuning to improve usability of geospatial products.
• Integrate structured, unstructured, tabular, and spatial datasets into cohesive analytical and visualization environments.
• Support geospatial data library functions such as dataset organization, metadata creation, version management, quality control, discoverability, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Create documentation, data dictionaries, standard operating procedures, user guidance, and technical recommendations to support repeatable data management and visualization workflows.
• Work independently across two office environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ 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.
• Eligibility is contingent upon verification of clearance status.
• Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance

Technologies

• Python, Tableau, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcPy
• GeoPandas, Shapely, Fiona, Rasterio, GDAL, QGIS
• PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Kibana
• Amazon S3, ArcGIS Hub
• Jira, Confluence, DevOps

Pay Transparency

The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is $137,000.00 - $182,000.00 - $200,200.00 annually. For all other states, geographic cost of labor is used to develop market-driven ranges for roles, so ranges may differ by location.