Geospatial Data Engineer

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 Data Engineer to join our team.  

This is a remote role.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Geospatial Data Engineer to support a mission critical GIS dataset used for incident management. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience supporting GIS data initiatives in ArcGIS. This role will involve data quality evaluations, ETL, ingestion of new data sources and supporting Dashboarding and other reporting efforts. This team will be applying AI/ML and other advanced data techniques in support of finding unique insights in the data that is available.  

This is a great opportunity to lead a strong technical team in the implementation of cutting-edge data science and geospatial technologies supporting a critical and life-saving mission.  This project is in support of the OCRSO (Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer), developing data, dashboarding, and GIS solutions to assist the ORCSO in understanding and responding to emergency incidents. The scope of work involves stakeholder engagement, data governance, data science and engineering, and data analysis and reporting.  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of related experience
• Experience with and comfortable leading deeply technical teams in the data science, data analytics, and Geospatial Data fields

Preferred:

• Master's Degree
• 5+ years of experience
• Previous experience supporting DHS HQ
• Existing DHS EOD

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.