Remote Geospatial Programmer

Position: Remote Geospatial Programmer

Status: Full-Time, contractor for federal agency

Hours: 40 hours per week, 8am to 5pm Mountain Standard Time

Duration: One Year Base contract with additional option years

Location: Fully Remote Work From Home

Work from home for an important project under the direction of the Branch of Geo Data Examination and Validation. Coordinate with federal government GIS specialists, Program Analysts, and Physical Scientists. Respond to project requests involving the use of various technologies such as Smartsheet.

GOV and the ESRI Suite of GIS software.

This role requires a Geographic Information Systems Analyst who can dependably and reliably work full-time from home using government-furnished equipment such as a laptop, collaborating with team members remotely as needed. If you are looking to work for an important federal contract for at least one year, for an excellent professional organization, we invite you to apply for this position.

• Competitive range of Pay
• Remote telework from home 100%
• 11 paid federal Holidays
• Vacation pay
• Sick leave
• Benefits package with robust offerings

• Degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, Environmental Science, or related fields
• Provide expertise to translate programs, automation tools, code, scripts from python to new support program platforms
• Provide professional expertise in writing programs that translate existing programs and scripts which automate the management, maintenance, and standardization of large datasets including but not limited to the Public Land Survey, Land Area Representation (LAR), Land Status, and others into approved data models for internal use as well as publication-ready data designs.
• Design and code new programs, scripts, and routines to support the automation of operations, which will improve data management and map production.
• Devise and deploy automated creation, update, and management tools to efficiently map Indian land tract, reservation boundary, ownership, lease and right of way data that are synchronized with the Trust Asset and Accounting Management System - TAAMS. Further, the legal land description data extracted from TAAMS is to be topologically aligned where possible and appropriate with the official published version of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Cadastral National Spatial Data Infrastructure (CAD NSDI) Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB) GIS Data for the trust land base.
• Must have knowledge of server or client scripting and/or processing solutions (e.g., Python, Power Shell, JavaScript, and/or other web technologies), to work efficiently with other technical team members.
• Comprehend IT servers and geodatabase architecture and design principles to develop resource information management and information delivery services/systems.
• Assist in scripting on special projects within the Division and sometimes outside to support critical missions.
• Regular, dependable attendance

• This position routinely utilizes standard office equipment such as laptops, computers, and phones in a work-from-home environment
• The physical requirements of this position are described as sedentary
• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time; walking and standing are required only occasionally

Applicants are assured of equal consideration regardless of race, age, color, religion, national origin, gender, GINA, political affiliation, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, marital status, or physical handicap which has no bearing on the ability to perform the duties of the position.