Senior Geospatial Solutions Developer

Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.

For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.

We are looking for a GIS professional to be part of the Engineering GIS Team on a contract basis, our focus is to provide internal and external customers the training, tools and systems to improve productivity and generate actionable information using geospatial techniques. We look for cost-effective, innovative solutions to automate tasks, build better business processes and generate actionable insights using geospatial data and techniques.

Main Function of Job

This position within our Engineering team will suit a committed and ambitious individual who can demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills combined with commercial awareness and the ability to play their part in growing a dynamic high-performance team.

The Geospatial Solutions Developer will be responsible for:

• Identifying opportunities where GIS could benefit internal and external customers.
• Developing routines, tools and plugins using a mix of open-source and proprietary solutions, mainly QGIS, FME and PostGIS.
• Advising a range of disciplines such as ecology, geotechnics, hydrology, drainage, noise, among others on the usage of geospatial data and techniques.
• Providing in-person and remote GIS training to colleagues.
• Performing quality assurance of geospatial data and products.
• Assisting in the maintenance of best practices documentation.

Main Duties

Working in collaboration with our engineers and other discipline specialists, the Geospatial Solutions Developer will be involved in a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:

• Gathering requirements for Geospatial development projects
• Developing Python scripts for geospatial analysis and data management
• Developing QGIS scripts and plugins
• Designing QGIS custom forms and dialogs
• Creating and maintaining FME work spaces to automate the ingestion of data from a variety of sources (spreadsheets, text files, CAD files, field observations) into geospatial formats
• Maintenance of a number of datasets on a spatially-enabled database (PostGIS), as well as designing relationships, views and functions
• Automate business processes using tools such Power Automate, FME, GDAL/OGR.
• Assist in the integration of field collection apps, PostGIS and desktop GIS solutions
• Create and maintain training material on geospatial tool and techniques.
• Provide in-person training as well as producing video tutorials for internal training.

An important part of the role will include working with the resources across the projects – from local resources to others based at other design Technical Centres.

Desired experience/skills

• Minimum 5 years experience with GIS
• QGIS
• FME
• Python
• PostGIS
• Experience working on the transport sector