Cartography Geospatial Analyst Top-Secret (TS(SCI) Springfield VA

The Cartography Geospatial Analyst Top-Secret (TS(SCI) Springfield VA - will work within a government/contractor team environment providing Digital Nautical Chart Production and Notice to Mariners support to existing and developing mission areas. Future needs and capabilities, as well as developmental assignments, are included.

Location- Onsite Springfield, VA

Requires an Active TS(SCI) Clearance.

Salary range of $60,000 - $80,000 is based on experience and technical interview.

NOTE from the hiring manager:

If candidates have any of these schools it's a layup and basically a guaranteed hire.

• Geospatial Intelligence Professional Certification (GPC-F) | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Geospatial Intelligence Targeting Couse (Tech School)
• Spatial Statistics with ArcGIS | National Geospatial-Intelligence College
• Temporal Data Visualization | National Geospatial-Intelligence College
• Cartography | ESRI
• Fundamentals of GIS | National Geospatial-Intelligence College

Cartographic analyst duties includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Digital Nautical Chart and or Electronic Nautical Chart Conversion production by performing Cartographic and GIS analyst functions.
• Feature extraction of point, line and area feature data from both government and commercially available imagery and cartographic sources.
• Supporting Standard Nautical Chart production by performing cartographic analyst functions supporting the Enterprise Product on Demand (ePODs)production process
• Recompilation or updating maritime features and attributes in ESRI based FG MOD production environment
• Extracting features from a variety of sources including but not necessarily limited to rasterized nautical charts, digital hydrographic survey data and ortho-rectified imagery; writing Python Scripts in ARCGIS to improve efficiency of the production process; Data Conversion/migration
• Utilize Reviewer Batch Jobs, GAIT, ATS, custom inspections to identify and correct defects.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Requires an Active TS(SCI) Clearance.
• 3 years of relevant experience, in which a Bachelor's Degree in a related field may count for up to 4 years of experience.
• Expertise and experience in geography, cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.
• Expertise and experience in creating shapefiles, geo-databases, and features.
• Knowledge of geospatial analysis software suites (GIS commercial software packages such as ArcGIS, ERDAS & SocetSet, including common office software to include spreadsheets and word processing) used by NGA to accomplish its mission.
• Knowledge of digital cartography, image processing, geographical information systems (GIS), geospatial production techniques and NGA digital data formats.
• Expertise in research information gathering for the following sources: Primary legal documents that pertain to the delimitation, demarcation and maintenance of the boundary, including textual descriptions, coordinate lists, reports and accompanying maps, native maps, secondary source maps, and historic maps used for extraction and comparison. Mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions using digital terrain elevation data sets.
• Expertise in preparing source material for digitizing, attribution, digitizing boundaries from georeferenced and ortho-rectified sources, applying projection, datum, and coordinate transformations, geo-referencing and ortho-rectifying source materials (maps, imagery) and extracting vectors from stereo imagery or elevation data.

Benefits Overview: Full-time employees are offered comprehensive and competitive benefits package including paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, health insurance, life insurance, military leave, training, tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) retirement plan with company matches/immediate vesting, commuter benefits, and more.

EEO Policy: It is our policy to promote equal employment opportunities. All personnel decisions, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination, are made without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.