Senior Geospatial Data Engineer - McLean

Salary: $137,000 - 200,200 per year Requirements:

• We require an active TS/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with polygraph.
• We require U.S. citizenship, and certain roles may require U.S. person status under export control rules.
• We require a bachelors degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• We require 12+ years of professional experience in geospatial technology, software development, data engineering, data analysis, or a similar technical discipline.
• We need strong Python expertise for geospatial processing, automation, transformation, analysis, and workflow improvement.
• We require experience working with large geospatial datasets, including cleaning, joining, enriching, validating, and preparing data for analysis or publication.
• We require hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Portal, or ArcGIS Online, including publishing and maintaining hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and related content.
• We require experience curating geospatial holdings, with a focus on organization, metadata, discoverability, and data quality.
• We require experience creating dashboards, reports, or visual analytics in Tableau or a similar business intelligence platform.
• We require knowledge of geospatial formats, projections, coordinate systems, spatial joins, geoprocessing workflows, cartography, and spatial data management.
• We require experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS, for storing, querying, and managing spatial or tabular data.
• We require strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and customer engagement skills.
• We require the ability to work independently with minimal oversight while coordinating effectively across teams, offices, and mission stakeholders.

• We partner with mission users to understand geospatial data needs, analytical questions, visualization requirements, and operational workflows.
• We identify, acquire, clean, transform, validate, curate, and publish large geospatial and tabular datasets from multiple sources.
• We develop Python scripts and tools to automate geospatial data processing, quality control, enrichment, transformation, and publication.
• We manage and refresh ArcGIS Portal content, including hosted feature layers, map services, web maps, dashboards, data hubs, and other geospatial products.
• We build and maintain Tableau dashboards, reports, and analytical visualizations for the data processing office and mission stakeholders.
• We apply cartographic best practices, including symbology, labeling, layer management, metadata, and performance tuning, to improve usability.
• We integrate structured, unstructured, tabular, and spatial data into unified analytical and visualization environments.
• We support geospatial data library activities such as dataset organization, metadata creation, version control, quality checks, discoverability, and lifecycle upkeep.
• We create documentation, data dictionaries, SOPs, user guidance, and technical recommendations to support repeatable workflows.
• We work independently across two office environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and communicating clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Business Intelligence
• GIS
• Support
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Security
• Tableau
• Web
• Cloud
• Confluence
• DevOps
• ElasticSearch
• JIRA
• Kibana
• Machine Learning

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We are Vantor, a team building the next frontier of spatial intelligence to help decision makers and operators understand what is happening now and anticipate what comes next. This is a mission-driven, hands-on role for a cleared geospatial technologist working across two mission offices, combining geospatial data curation, ArcGIS Portal administration, Python-based data processing, and Tableau-driven reporting. We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance. The base pay for the Washington, DC metropolitan area is $137,000.00 to $200,200.00 annually, with location-based ranges for other states. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and an equal opportunity hiring process.

last updated 37 week of 2026