GIS Operations Officer (Geospatial Intelligence)

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States; U.S. citizenship required. Active U.S. Government TS/SCI security clearance with required polygraph is mandatory.

Base pay in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: $102,000–$136,000–$149,600 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence capabilities that help decision makers and operators understand current events and plan for future operations.

What you will do

• Provide technical and analytical geospatial support to U.S. Government intelligence and policymaking communities.
• Create advanced mapping, imagery, and visualization products for tactical, strategic, operational, and policymaking audiences.
• Combine geospatial and temporal information to conduct all-source analysis and research.
• Create custom datasets through raster georeferencing and reprojection, feature extraction and digitization, attribute manipulation, and file-format conversion.
• Design, develop, populate, and maintain all-source geospatial databases.
• Create scripts and tools to automate data extraction, ingestion, processing, integration, and operational production workflows.

Requirements

• Active and current TS/SCI security clearance with the required polygraph.
• BS degree in Geography, Earth Science, or a related field; four additional years of experience may substitute for the degree.
• Five years of experience with GIS, geospatial and imagery analysis, cartography, all-source analysis, graphic design and production, process automation, and tool development.
• Working experience with some or all of ESRI ArcGIS 10.6, Spatial Analyst, Remote View, Google Earth, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, personal and multi-user geodatabases, Oracle databases, GIS web services, vector and raster data formats, overhead imagery, CADRG, CIB, and DTED.
• Experience with SQL Developer, VBA, Visual Basic, ArcObjects, and/or Python.

Nice to have

• High standards for quality and attention to detail.
• Strong planning, organization, prioritization, and communication skills, with the ability to work with minimal guidance.
• Ability to transform concepts and requirements into effective audience-specific visualization products within time constraints in an operational environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time work in a demanding operational environment with dynamic priorities and deadlines.
• Direct collaboration with senior U.S. Government management on operational planning and senior-level briefings.
• Benefits include a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global’s Career page.
• Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status; applicants without the required clearance are not eligible for consideration.