Lead design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of enterprise geospatial applications and APIs. Implement ArcGIS Enterprise solutions, web GIS apps, dashboards, integrations, and ensure compliance with federal IT, cybersecurity, and privacy requirements while guiding development teams and supporting testing, deployment, and O&M.
Ardent is seeking a Senior Geospatial Application Developer to join our team.
This is a hybrid/on-site position located in Washington, DC.
Position Description:
Ardent is seeking a Senior Geospatial Application Developer to lead application development efforts supporting enterprise geospatial solutions within a federal environment. This role will support the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of geospatial applications, user interfaces, workflows, APIs, and related services.
The Senior Geospatial Application Developer will lead application development activities and collaborate with program team members across infrastructure, security, data, and operations to ensure applications meet federal IT requirements and mission needs.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead application development efforts for enterprise geospatial solutions.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain geospatial applications, user interfaces, workflows, and APIs.
- Support new development and maintenance of existing geospatial solutions.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, data, and program teams to ensure applications meet DHS IT requirements.
- Support implementation and maintenance of ArcGIS Enterprise and related geospatial services.
- Develop web-based GIS applications, dashboards, and integration workflows.
- Support geospatial data management, visualization, analysis, and application integration activities.
- Participate in application testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, and maintenance activities.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, application specifications, and user guides.
- Support cybersecurity, role-based access, and privacy requirements within application development activities.
- Provide technical guidance to application development team members.
- Support development, testing, production, and operations and maintenance environments.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geography, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience leading application development teams or development workstreams.
- Experience developing applications including user interfaces, workflows, and APIs.
- Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, C++, JavaScript, C#, .NET, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting new development and/or maintenance of existing geospatial solutions.
- Experience working with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server, or related Esri technologies.
- Experience developing web applications, dashboards, workflows, or APIs.
- Experience collaborating with infrastructure, security, data, and program teams.
- Experience supporting applications within federal IT, cybersecurity, or compliance requirements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and support multiple priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geography, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience developing applications using ArcGIS APIs and SDKs.
- Experience supporting ArcGIS GeoEvent Server.
- Experience with cloud-native application development.
- Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments.
- Experience supporting GIS dashboards, analytics, and visualization tools.
- Experience supporting DHS or other federal government geospatial programs.
- Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, or automated deployment processes.
- Esri technical certifications.
Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process. We highly encourage all Veterans and those with disabilities to apply.
Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate 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, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.
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