Senior GIS Engineer

Senior Geographical Systems Engineer

• Senior GIS Engineer
• 6-month contract
• Remote Working
• Outside IR35
• Market Rates (c£500 per day)

The Opportunity:

ISR are working with a market-leading IT Consultancy to secure the services of a Senior GIS Consultant to assist with critical project work over the coming months and join a multidisciplinary Agile team.

This is an exciting opportunity to help design, build and support modern cloud-native geospatial data services that underpin critical national decision-making.

You'll play a key role in developing scalable geospatial processing pipelines, integrating spatial datasets from multiple sources and delivering high-quality services for analytics, reporting and operational applications.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience as a Senior GIS / Geospatial Consultant, delivering geospatial solutions within large-scale, data-driven environments.
• Strong consultancy background with experience working in multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder-facing environments.
• Demonstrable experience designing, building and supporting scalable geospatial data platforms and services.
• Deep understanding of geospatial data formats, including GeoPackage, GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs (COGs), FlatGeobuf and PMTiles.
• Hands-on experience developing geospatial data ingestion, transformation, validation, storage and publishing pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of spatial processing workflows and geospatial data engineering best practices.
• Experience consuming and publishing geospatial data via RESTful and OGC-compliant APIs.
• Extensive experience with open-source geospatial technologies, including GDAL, QGIS and OpenLayers.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python, SQL and cloud-native development.
• Experience optimising spatial datasets and services for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and modern data architectures.
• Experience contributing to solution architecture, technical standards, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of version control, DevOps practices and modern engineering principles.

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (one to two weeks’ lead-time).

Applications:

If you're an experienced GIS Engineer with a passion for cloud-native GIS technologies, spatial data engineering and modern geospatial platforms; please contact Edward here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?