Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The Geospatial Analyst will support cartographic production efforts and ArcGIS Online portal map creation for government customers, contributing to complex intelligence analysis for senior policymakers.
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
Providing advice on processes and procedures for optimal visualization
Researching, designing, and producing thematic and reference maps
Supporting the development team
Doing open-source data collection
Working with ESRI-based web applications
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (preferably in Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Computer Science, or related field with demonstrated GIS training or coursework) and 2 – 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
This position requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
Expertise with ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro software
Experience with ESRI-based web interfaces, such as Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online, and Web Application development
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.
