OverviewGeospatial Systems EngineerMcLean, VATS/SCI with PolyAt Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it's architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support.Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.
Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government's mission and our client's business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation's cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a
Geospatial Systems Engineer in
McLean, Virginia.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of professional experience in geospatial technology, software development, data engineering, data analysis, or a related technical field.
- Strong Python experience for geospatial data processing, automation, transformation, analysis, and workflow improvement.
- Demonstrated experience working with large geospatial datasets, including cleaning, formatting, joining, enriching, validating, and preparing data for analysis or publication.
- Hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Portal, or ArcGIS Online, including publishing and maintaining hosted feature layers, web maps, dashboards, and geospatial content.
- Experience curating geospatial data holdings, including organizing datasets, maintaining metadata, improving discoverability, and ensuring data quality.
- Experience developing dashboards, reports, or analytic visualizations in Tableau or a comparable business intelligence platform.
- Understanding of geospatial data formats, projections, coordinate systems, spatial joins, geoprocessing workflows, cartographic principles, and spatial data management.
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL/PostGIS, for storing, querying, and managing spatial or tabular data.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and customer engagement skills.
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance while coordinating effectively across teams, offices, and mission stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications:- Advanced Tableau experience, including dashboard development, calculated fields, filters, data preparation, publishing, and maintaining products for operational users.
- Experience with ArcGIS Pro, ArcPy, GeoPandas, Shapely, Fiona, Rasterio, GDAL, QGIS, or similar geospatial tools and libraries.
- Experience building repeatable data pipelines for geospatial data ingestion, processing, validation, and publication.
- Experience with cloud-hosted datasets, Amazon S3, ArcGIS Hub-style environments, or secure integrations between enterprise data repositories and ArcGIS Portal.
- Experience with PostgreSQL/PostGIS performance tuning, spatial indexing, and geospatial query optimization.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, or similar search, analytics, and visualization tools.
- Familiarity with data governance, data stewardship, metadata standards, data quality, Agile practices, Jira, Confluence, DevOps principles, version control, or containerized workflows.
- Background in spatial statistics, predictive analytics, machine learning, or advanced geospatial modeling.
What you can expect from us- The expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $180,000 - 210,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.
- Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.
BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
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