Part-Time Geospatial Programmer (TS/SCI w/ Poly)
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Maxar is looking to for a part-time Geospatial Software Developer to provide support for an enterprise geospatial data visualization application and support vital analysis of various, unique data sets. If you are a developer who likes to handle big data and engineer time saving solutions, we need your skills!

 

You'll have the unique opportunity to provide support to two important missions supporting national security. One project, we're identifying, obtaining, and analyzing various data sets and providing quantitative analytic techniques to model foreign adversaries' behavior in support of time-critical world events. This utilizes large data sets manipulated with Python.   In the other project, you'll join an exciting team of software developers building and maintaining a data visualization and analytic web application with a wide and stable user base.  The tool is currently in the process of finalizing migration to a cloud environment and will soon undertake several exciting new development initiatives.

 

Career: At Maxar we're very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.

 

Day-to-day with your colleagues:

• Meeting with the customer to understand and refine the requirements.
• Developing new tools and adapt existing tools.
• Recommending best practices for data storage and manipulation.
• Reviewing current practices, identifying process improvements, and implementing them.
• Supporting cloud migration activities.
• Modernizing workflows, interfaces and code base to include containerization of existing code within the cloud.
• Supporting the further development of an existing web viewer application in the ESRI JavaScript API and other related technologies.
• Assisting the ingest of geospatial data including imagery, maps, charts, GIS feature data and integrated GIS data to the Sponsor's web applications.
• Creating methodologies for manipulation of large data sets to derive answers to specific intelligence problems for which the data can reveal insight.

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Current/active TS/SCI security clearance with required Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geography, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience with software development.
• Ability to automate workflows using Python.
• Experience using Python to manipulate spatial data. Creating and modifying modules in Python.
• Experience with ElasticStack to include- analysis of large datasets using ElasticSearch and Kibana, and the ability to maintain Elastic clusters.
• Willingness to work onsite full time

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

● The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $131,000.00 - $219,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at:

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