Hybrid Geospatial (GIS) Solutions Engineer/Technical Lead at Ardentmc

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us.

Ardent is seeking a Geospatial Solutions Engineer/Technical Lead to join our team.  

This is an onsite role in (Huntsville, AL) which was recently ranked #1 Best Place to Live by U.S. News & World Report as well as the 3rd most affordable place to live and #16 fastest-growing place to live. 

Ardent  is looking for a Geospatial Solutions Engineer / Technical Lead  who will work closely with our lead architect and systems integration team. This position will support a new Ardent program working with the FBI in the Directorate of Intelligence supporting Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Cybersecurity. The team will design and develop tools and applications that leverage the ArcGIS REST and Python API allowing automation of a variety of GIS tasks such as automating map production, publishing web services, updating data sources across different databases, web map generation, and more. This individual will support critical automation tasks to help manage deployments, metrics, user access and other tasks. Working within an Agile based process, the person in this role will be responsible for developing data driven solutions for incident operations and national security events using products such as Esri Operations Dashboard, Web App Builder (WAB) and custom Esri solutions. This role will support multiple collaborative project teams all collocated in Washington DC. 

Responsibilities:

• Envision, design, and develop cloud-based web applications and data management strategies for large-scale deployment and management in the Homeland Security community 
• Build ESRI custom widgets and tools using variety of programming languages (Python, ArcPy, Arcade, JS) that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment model 
• Rapidly prototype cloud-based web applications to showcase new concepts and ideas 
• Quickly convert customer ideas to minimum-viable-products using the entire ArcGIS suite of tools 
• Solve and articulate complex problems with application design, development, and user experiences 
• In-depth experience leveraging ArcGIS Dashboard, Insights, S123, Field Maps, ExB, and WAB 
• Write technical design specifications and support documentation 
• Suggests new technologies and approaches, often demonstrating and championing their use 
• Estimate the duration and level of effort of development tasks through collaboration with SME and leads 
• Lead technical team in developing ArcGIS solutions and administering client’s GIS  

Requirements:

• MUST POSSESS ACTIVE TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE
• Bachelor's Degree in Geospatial or IT focused discipline preferred, will consider experience in lieu of degree
• 4+ years geospatial solution engineering experience 
• Experience leading technical team implementing enterprise GIS 
• Experience with creating system architectures to support GIS deployments 
• Experience leading technical development for new features related to GIS 
• Experience leading team responsible for monitoring and maintaining GIS 
• Experience managing the integration of data services and ingests between record keeping systems and GIS 
• Experience managing the implementation and documentation for GIS security controls 
• Experience managing multiple production and development environments, including cloud-based and on-premises (GovCloud experience a plus) 
• Experience with full ArcGIS Enterprise and Desktop suites 

Acronyms: 

ArcPY: Python scripting in ArcGIS Enterprise 

ExB = ArcGIS Experience Builder 

WAB = ArcGIS Web Application Builder  

S123 = Survey 123 

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.