GIS Developer

Career Site Team: Technology and Engineering

At NielsenIQ, our Technology and Engineering team is working on a unified, global, open data ecosystem powered by Microsoft Azure.

Our clients around the world rely on NielsenIQ's data and insights to innovate and grow.

About the Job

As a Geospatial Data Engineer, you'll be part of a team of smart, highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning and prototyping cutting-edge technologies.

Our platform is based on ESRI's ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Mongo, Postgres, Azure, and we continue to adopt the best of breed in cloud-native, low-latency technologies.

We value CI/CD in everything that we develop. Our team is co-located and agile, with central technology hubs in Chicago, Madrid, Toronto, Chennai, and Pune.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement GIS solutions using ESRI's software suite and integrate it with Angular technology-based frontend.
• Evaluate the best approach to solve problems.
• Understand user needs and how they fit into the overall, global solution design.
• Troubleshoot and identify root cause analysis while resolving the issues.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the application development team.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend solutions that enhance our mobile capabilities.
• Ensure code quality, security, scalability, and performance by implementing best practices and code reviews.

Required Technical Skills:

• Extensive knowledge and experience with ESRI's ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS online, ArcGIS Enterprise.
• Ability to architect and design scalable, high-performance GIS solutions using ESRI technologies.
• Experience in designing and configuring ArcGIS Enterprise deployments, including server infrastructure, load balancing, and high availability.
• Familiar with data visualization techniques and Geospatial data representation.
• Strong understanding of GIS concepts, data models, geodatabases, and spatial analysis.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and experience with deploying and managing GIS solutions in the cloud.
• Understanding of enterprise-level IT infrastructure, including databases, networking, security, and system integration.

Familiar with Geospatial data formats (e.g., Shapefiles, GeoJSON, WMS, WFS).Understanding of UI design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.Experience of working with SCM tools like GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.Hands-on experience on Azure/AWS/GCP or any other cloud technology.Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Sonar, Wiz.

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