GIS Developer I
St. Paul, MN
12 Month
Expected Deliverables during the tenure:
GPS Integration: Develop a performant, scalable REST API integration to ingest large volumes of GPS telematics data from our GPS telematics partner. This integration will be backwards-compatible with our existing GPS event schema to ensure downstream compatibility
QSR Associates Data Layer: Develop and implement a process for geolocating divisional associates based on job code and publish the results to our ArcGIS Enterprise instance to support additional data inferencing.
Geofencing Pipeline Compatibility Updates: Modify existing spatial analysis pipeline to parameterize input datasets which currently refer to hard-coded datasets. Once completed, modify the existing pipeline to accept parameterization for existing datasets and will produce an additional pipeline to accept parameterization for newly defined datasets.
Commitment Schedule Maintenance: Take over existing maintenance tasks related to monthly commitment generation process and will take direction from business stakeholders to modify commitments generation data assets to meet changing business requirements over time.
General-purpose Automation: Implement stable, performant and observable pipelines to automate maintenance for QSR Accounts and QSR Associates data layers.
Commitments Generation Tool: Develop and deploy ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox for generating monthly commitment schedule according to requirements defined by QSR's Sr. GIS Analyst, and will work with Sr. GIS Analyst to refine tooling as business needs change over time.
- GPS Integration: User will develop a performant, scalable REST API integration to ingest large volumes of GPS telematics data from our GPS telematics partner. This integration will be backwards-compatible with our existing GPS event schema to ensure downstream compatibility
- QSR Associates Data Layer: User will develop and implement a process for geolocating divisional associates based on job code, and publish the results to our ArcGIS Enterprise instance to support additional data inferencing.
- Geofencing Pipeline Compatibility Updates: User will modify existing spatial analysis pipeline to parameterize input datasets which currently refer to hard-coded datasets. Once completed, user will modify existing pipeline to accept parameterization for existing datasets and will produce an additional pipeline to accept parameterization for newly-defined datasets.
- Commitment Schedule Maintenance: User will take over existing maintenance tasks related to monthly commitment generation process, and will take direction from business stakeholders to modify commitments generation data assets to meet changing business requirements over time.
- General-purpose Automation: User will implement stable, performant and observable pipelines to automate maintenance for QSR Accounts and QSR Associates data layers.
- Commitments Generation Tool: User will develop and deploy ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox for generating monthly commitment schedule according to requirements defined by QSR's Sr. GIS Analyst, and will work with Sr. GIS Analyst to refine tooling as business needs change over time.
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GIS Developer 1
Job Description
A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations, Client is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $13 billion and more than 45,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
The GIS Developer I will help support the team through an expanding focus surrounding information automation and data science in support of development of the Enterprise GIS system. This position is part of the GIS Platform Team, which supports expanded spatial-based business intelligence and territory planning applications within route, district, and sales and operations business planning. Supports the research, identification, design, and application of the latest cutting-edge analytical methods to incubate new insights that drive innovative ways to make significant impacts to the business results. Leverages spatial based statistical techniques to measure the significance of findings and insights that helps to build adoption in the business.
The GIS Platform Team meets critical business needs by improving responsiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency, through innovative research, defined architectures, planning, and optimal use of GIS and other business information and technology. Enables universal Enterprise data access by linking geospatial and business attributes to effect efficient territories, measured service, and business expansion. In this role, you will be focused on developing GIS automations for Ecolab's QSR division, and will work closely with the Sr. GIS Analyst and other business stakeholders to gather requirements, design automation solutions, and implement scalable, durable, observable geospatial pipelines designed to support critical business decision-making by high-level stakeholders within the organization.
Your work will help to enable a consistent, coordinated, and proactive GIS-based planning approach by bringing new insights to business operations that increases field service and sales efficiency through the identification and application of spatial-based business intelligence insights. You will work as part of the centralized GIS COE Platform team and report to the GIS Manager I COE Platform.
What's in it For You:
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- Opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments
- Ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
- Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best
What You Will Do:
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- You will leverage GIS industry knowledge, analytical expertise, and existing core GPS and telematics to provide insights that enable the field team to optimize their service delivery.
- Service delivery optimization and related insights will lead to improved customer satisfaction and retention, employee retention, associate safety, work-life balance and income opportunities.
- Interface directly with the Lead Developer, Sr. Developer, and Sr. GIS Analysts to support the automation and development of analytical GIS information and processes to help improve route and territory optimizations using multiple criteria, routing models, profiles, and perform other spatial analyses.
- Apply coding, geospatial, statistical, and modeling tools to uncover underlying opportunities.
- Provide and report on statistical findings and summary reporting of GIS analytics.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to provide GIS analysis to support their business needs.
- Support the development of project scopes and objectives through hands-on application, networking, research and use of applicable technology.
- Coach business partners and users in understanding and adopting GIS information and analysis outputs.
- Document methodologies used in the execution of requests and standard reporting.
- Develop and maintain a professional rapport with team members.
- Communicate effectively, both written and oral, with project team and management staff.
- Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
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- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Geography, Planning or related field and five to eight years of experience (or) an Advanced Master's degree and two to four years of experience.
- 2+ years of Esri ArcGIS experience using Esri GIS software products involving GIS data development, manipulation, modeling, and analysis.
- 2+ years of GIS experience applying advanced analytics, data science, mathematics, and statistics to find insights in data.
- Experience working with relational databases such as SQL, structuring queries and geographic and spatial methods and techniques.
- Experience working with ArcGIS API for Python and/or ArcPy.
- Experience working with general-purpose REST APIs, including authentication and extraction methodologies to ingest large volumes of data (asynchronous programming experience desirable)
- Experience working with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Pycharm and Jupyter Notebook environment.
- Experience working within Software Development Life Cycle surrounding ITIL, DevOps, GitHub, Scrum, and Agile.
- Experience working with Esri Geodatabase.
- No immigration sponsorship available for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
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- Master's degree in GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics or related field and two to four years of experience.
- 1+ years of Esri ArcGIS experience, including Network Analyst tools and functionality including Location-Allocation and VRP.
- Experience in SQL Server and Enterprise Geodatabases (other SQL DBMS experience, IE PostgreSQL or Oracle, is acceptable)
- Experience with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal for ArcGIS.
- Experience with Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure
- Experience in global mapping projects.
- Experience in business analysis and applied GIS toward territory & route design.
- Ability to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to apply knowledge and develop maps, information, and reporting that support decision-making.
- Ability to meet project deadlines.
- Ability to perform assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision and develop advanced skills.
- Ability to compile, review and reconcile data for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Ability to prioritize, organize and delegate assignments.
- Proficient in the use of spreadsheets, database, and word-processing applications.
- Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
ABOUT US
Apptad offers strategic consulting, enterprise information management and digital transformation services. With globally connected offices in US and India along with a team of trained and certified IT resources, Apptad ensures quick and effective delivery to its customers.Apptad is relentlessly reinventing the outlook of how companies leverage data.
With an effort to enable our customers the ability to solve biggest problems within their organization.We perceive our clients problems and respond with custom solutions instead of handing over boilerplate responses.
OUR MISSION
Customer Focus: We listen carefully to the needs of our clients so that we know what s important for their business and can design a customized solution for their business.
Innovation: As a firm, we believe in constantly upgrading ourselves and improving our solutions to adapt to the changing landscape of technology.
Accountability and Ethics: We believe in taking our commitments as seriously as our customers and living up to them while building trust for a long term business relationship.
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