Maxar is looking to for a part-time Geospatial Software Developer to provide support for an enterprise geospatial data visualization application and support vital analysis of various, unique data sets. If you are a developer who likes to handle big data and engineer time saving solutions, we need your skills!

You'll have the unique opportunity to provide support to two important missions supporting national security. One project, we're identifying, obtaining, and analyzing various data sets and providing quantitative analytic techniques to model foreign adversaries' behavior in support of time-critical world events. This utilizes large data sets manipulated with Python. ?In the other project, you'll join an exciting team of software developers building and maintaining a data visualization and analytic web application with a wide and stable user base.? The tool is currently in the process of finalizing migration to a cloud environment and will soon undertake several exciting new development initiatives.

Career:?At Maxar we're very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.

Day-to-day with your colleagues:

• Meeting with the customer to understand and refine the requirements.
• Developing new tools and adapt existing tools.
• Recommending best practices for data storage and manipulation.
• Reviewing current practices, identifying process improvements, and implementing them.
• Supporting cloud migration activities.
• Modernizing workflows, interfaces and code base to include containerization of existing code within the cloud.
• Supporting the further development of an existing web viewer application in the ESRI JavaScript API and other related technologies.
• Assisting the ingest of geospatial data including imagery, maps, charts, GIS feature data and integrated GIS data to the Sponsor's web applications.
• Creating methodologies for manipulation of large data sets to derive answers to specific intelligence problems for which the data can reveal insight.

Minimum Requirements:

• Current/active TS/SCI security clearance with required Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geography, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience with software development.
• Ability to automate workflows using Python.
• Experience using Python to manipulate spatial data. Creating and modifying modules in Python.
• Experience with ElasticStack to include- analysis of large datasets using ElasticSearch and Kibana, and the ability to maintain Elastic clusters.
• Willingness to work onsite full time

In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.