Open Source Geospatial Developer
Position summary
Motivf is looking for an open-source developer to join our Agile geospatial information systems integration team for enterprise Government clients. You will analyze incoming requirements to determine and build state-of-the-art geospatial web technologies. What will your technology do? It’ll help decisionmakers to improve large-scale land stewardship, especially as it deals with invasive species.
Career Development:
In this role you will have the opportunity to learn by:
Acquiring the crucial and differentiating career experience of working for a major federal government client and developing technology used throughout the nation.
Working directly with client staff and our internal teams to develop specifications, design new processes and procedures, facilitate testing, training, and user acceptance, and oversee rollout of your solutions.
Working with senior program leaders and technologists to leverage industry-leading tools.
Your Responsibilities:
Communicate and collaborate proactively with clients and subject matter experts to analyze information and functional needs and deliver functional requirements, business requirements, technical requirements, and user stories.
Gather requirements through interviews, document and artifact analysis, facilitated workshop sessions, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, user stories, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Clearly communicate your technical decisions to your teammates and both technical and non-technical members of the client team.
Leverage your understanding of React/React Native, D3, Leaflet, or related tools.
Build spatial data visualizations serving the client’s need for information on where work is being done to manage invasive species.
Manage and publish map/feature services using the agreed technology stack.
Deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain systems using various AWS technologies.
Support audits to verify that requirements have been met.
Required Qualifications:
Ability to articulate the impact of your technical contributions to the client mission.
At least one demonstration of previous client work, discussing your reasoning for your decisions and articulating empathy and understanding of client objectives and strategies.
Self-starter with initiative, creativity, and drive.
Willingness to promote Agile software development best practices.
Manage workloads across multiple tasks.
Strategic thinking ability with highly developed problem solving skills.
Strong planning and execution abilities with flexibility to balance competing demands while working in a dynamic organization.