Job specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. The employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
SUMMARY:
As a Geospatial Analyst, the successful candidate will participate on a team engaged in: (1) collecting, processing, and delivering of geospatial data; (2) perform quality assurance and quality control on data products; (3) managing and organizing large volumes of geospatial data; (4) providing technical support and assistance to partners/end-users and (5) working side-by-side with a team of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) professionals to plan the execution of new GEOINT 2D/3D production workflows.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Essential functions are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees. This list of essential functions is not intended to reflect every duty that may be performed within the job.
- Be a part of a team resonsible for performing a diverse set of geospatial processing and production tasks.
- Provide Geospatial production expertise to lead in the development of innovative automated production workflows and capabilities.
- Lead time-sensitive ad-hoc production of 3D GEOINT content in response to tactical, mission-critical end-user requests.
- Collaborate with end-users to ensure 3D GEOINT content can be easily accessed and integrated into existing software and work flows.
- Produce GEOINT user tutorials and user-friendly documentation showcasing how to exploit 3D geospatial-intelligence to create analyses and visualizations in common software applications.
- Ability to provide tier-1, on-site IT support and ‘smart-hands’ support for more complex IT issues.
- Support sourcing geospatial data from open-source, onsite, commercial and
- Government Furnished Information (GFI) repositories to support new and existing production requirement.
- Support prototype and production workflows within HPC, Supercomputer and Cloud processing environment.
- Maintain regular communication with customer, subcontractor and vendor staff member.
- Take on, lead and complete project tasks independently with minimal oversight from Project Manage.
- Work with the team to ensure physical and data security procedures.
- Work within a small close knit team, reporting to the Program Manager.
- Demonstrate a willingness to work within a small, diverse, flexible team which may requiring performing ad-hoc jobs as required to complete a project tasks.
- Support daily activity, as required.
- Communicate on a regular basis with all members of the team, the team management, other members of GNIS, and be actively involved in the ongoing commercial activity. Both in person and remotely through email, phone, and video teleconference.
- Interact regularly with Project Partners.
- Travel, as required, to attend training, conferences, presentations, and exercises that align with the mission objectives.
NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience:
- Working knowledge of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEOINT 2D/3D data formats, standards and user-community use cases for those data sets.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience using geospatial technologies in a professional and/or educational setting.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience using COTS geospatial software tools to process, review and analyse geospatial data products.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance.
Preferred:
- Experience producing standard 2D/3D GEOINT Products.
- Experience processing/creating Digital Elevation Models (DEM).
- Experience deploying advanced geospatial processing techniques.
- Experience with Programming and Scripting.
- Familiarity with distributed processing in Cloud, HPC and/or Supercomputing environments.
- Knowledge of industry and government metadata standards and formats.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of geospatial principles including datum/projection, data types and formats, accuracy assessment methodologies, data integrity, photogrammetry , SAR processing, and GIS analysis.
- Knowledge of and willingness to assist with various compute management tasks, including operationational, maintenance, system administration, network connectivity, and help desk support for compute resources.
- Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Ability to communicate to others to convey information effectively.
- Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems to maximize customer satisfaction.
- Skilled at understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Effective, professional, and engaging communication skills.
- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Effective time management skills.
- Position requires initiative, independence, persistence, attention to detail, achievement, dependability, diplomacy, discretion, integrity, stress tolerance, and professional appearance.
- Motivated, self-starter.
- Ability to effectively interact with other team members possessing a range of knowledge and skillsets, from highly technical to non-technical support staff.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors or Masters from an accredited college in a geospatial, or related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Work Environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse and multi-line telephone system.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFYING FACTORS:
As a condition of employment, must pass a pre-employment drug screening, as well as have acceptable reference and background check results. May be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Must have or be eligible for security clearances. May require occasional travel.
The Tatitlek Corporation gives hiring, promotion, training and retention preference to Tatitlek shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.
As an equal opportunity employer, The Tatitlek Corporation recognizes that our strength lies in our people. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment, in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment.