GIS / Web Developer (Software Engineer II)

About this role

Join a small team building and running web map tools for ocean forecast data. You'll keep a daily data pipeline and a web map viewer running smoothly, improve them over time, and work with scientists and partner teams across the agency.

Duties & Responsibilities

Develop and improve web-based software for visualizing coastal ocean forecasts and checking their quality.

Design clear, user-friendly interfaces that meet the needs of forecast model developers and the people who use the forecasts.

Build and extend an interactive map viewer for comparing ocean forecasts with satellite and in-situ observations.

Develop tools for routine quality checks on forecast products and observations, using spatial and time-series methods.

Support and improve the automated cloud processes that turn model and satellite data into map layers.

Test, document and support the software you build.

Required Qualifications

Education: a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, oceanography, information technology, or a closely related field. A Bachelor's degree may be replaced by 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in addition to the minimum below.

Experience: at least 4 years building or supporting cloud-based systems and processes, following sound IT practices.

Skills:

Experience with ArcGIS, such as ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online: publishing, sharing and managing map layers.

Strong Python.

Experience with MATLAB or Fortran.

JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Linux and Git.

Good communication and teamwork.

Desired Skills

ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, or the ArcGIS API for Python.

Sharing data publicly from the cloud, for example AWS S3 and CloudFront, or ArcGIS Online.

Gridded scientific data such as NetCDF (for example with xarray), or satellite products.

Scheduled jobs and automation on Linux servers.

A background in, or interest in, oceanography or meteorology.