This vacancy is now closed

Ref
18387
Department
Solutions
Location
Birmingham
Employment type
Full-time
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
31/08/2023
Description

TerraQuest

Role: Geographical Information Specialist

Location: Birmingham inline with our Agile working policy. 2 days per week in the office.

Salary: Negotiable 

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd, is an award winning and a market leading specialist provider of planning, land, property and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation which is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team deliver bespoke, flexible and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

 

What we need...

Due to a period of sustained growth, we are looking to hire a GIS specialist to join our Birmingham office. 

Working in a team of GIS specialists alongside our test and service desk teams developing and supporting the submission of online applications and the spatial enablement of data to meet a breadth of business requirements.   

Looking to develop a career in an environment that has engaged both waterfall and agile methodologies with core principles following a blend of these to enable swift development within a structured framework. 

Gaining knowledge and experience in working on the enhancement of one of the UK’s major web-based application process solutions amongst many other spatially enabled solutions and looking to develop your experience of solutions with responsive design at their centre.

 

What you will be doing...

  • Working with geographical information systems, standards, technologies, and data
  • Transform spatial data between different data sources and/or formats
  • Work as part of a team to maintain and manage spatial data
  • Performing spatial analysis to address business questions and requirements
  • Developing new solutions using spatial data
  • Style and Theme data for presentation by the modern web mapping application
  • Support legacy spatial data and software
  • Provide knowledge and expertise to the rest of the development team
  • Keep up to date with the latest Geo-Spatial technologies

 

What we are looking for.....

Essential Qualities: 

Must-haves: 

  • Working Knowledge of GIS and spatial data
  • Including Vector and Raster data
  • Understanding of the OGC standard
  • Familiarity with commonly used spatial data formats (Shapefiles, GeoJSON, GML, …)
  • Ability to transform spatial data between different data sources and/or formats
  • Experience using Desktop GIS Tools and packages
  • Knowledge of Web Mapping Services
  • To Serve Spatial data to the web mapping application 

Nice-to-haves: 

  • Experience with SQL Databases 
  • Knowledge of a Programming language 
  • Knowledge of working with FME  
  • Knowledge of GeoServer 
  • Knowledge of Azure cloud technology
  • Working as part of an Agile team 

Non-technology: 

  • Must be a team player 
  • Should have previous experience working in an agile software development team to deliver solutions into a production-ready state 
  • Should be able to take ownership of ticket/user story from planning to presentation 
  • Should be DevOps aware 

In return you will receive a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, Please apply for more information.