UpSlope Advisors is seeking an experienced senior level GEOINT Standards Developer to join our team! This person will be responsible for writing requirements, ensuring capability Standards, and satisfying requirements across the government agency and partners, among other things.

Security Requirement:

• An active TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.

General Responsibilities:

• Writes GEOINT requirements as Standards adopted by U.S. and International organizations.
• Ensure capability Standards for GEOINT data, geospatial data, GEOINT, and for APIs satisfy requirements across AGENCY and partners.
• Create new ontologies to improve problem solving
• Collaborate, test, and assist others in development and use of geospatial standards.
• Responsible for progressing and maintaining official description of enterprise datasets
• Support the capture and management of metadata and information sources from across the enterprise, including data sets, business intelligence reports, visualizations, and conversations.
• Work with GEOINT standards Data Modeling languages to support the life cycle management of evolving data standards supporting AGENCY and NSG initiatives and acquisition programs.
• Applying naming standards, and metadata standards, checks models in and out of Model Repository, and documents data model translation decisions
• Support updating and managing MySQL, MS-ACCESS structures (Table, Columns) and content
• Experience in the use of existing OGC standards and industry best practices related visualization, features, spatiotemporal data, metadata catalogs, and coordinate reference systems.
• Working knowledge of the following software language, GitLab or GitHub, HTTP REST API’s, XML and JSON.
• Working knowledge of a logical query expression such as SQL, XML or JSON filters

Skills and Experience:
Required Skills and Tasks:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Experience technical writer.
• Working knowledge using MySQL or other relational databases
• Working knowledge of MS-Excel files
• Working experience with GEOINT metadata
• GEOINT domain experience
• Experience working with dimensionally modeled data
• Develop Ontologies and guide conceptual and logical models at the enterprise, segment, and solution level, spanning multiple special domains.
• Working knowledge of relational databases constructs
• Understanding of basic concepts of Unified Modeling Language (UML) Class Diagrams, object-based modeling concepts, and logical data models.

Desired Skills and Tasks

• Experience with Collibra, Informatica or related data governance tools
• Experience working with dimensionally modeled data
• Experience in translating/mapping relational data models into XML and Schema
• Experience with basic concepts of object-based modeling concepts and logical data models.
• Familiarity with the major varieties of JSON (JSON-LD, GeoJSON, JSON-B, etc.).
• Familiarity with Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).

Work Level:

• Self-guided individual work
• Proactive team member
• Task Lead

Education/Certification Required:

Senior Level - Master’s degree, Bachelor’s degree plus 4-year experience, Associates degree plus 6 years’ experience, or a minimum of 8 years’ experience, in relevant field. 

About UsUpSlope Advisors is an 8(a), professional engineering services company that provides expert mission-first technical and programmatic support for US Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal agencies. As a ‘Mission First / People First’ company, we believe that success starts with the people. Our employees are the heart of our client(s) mission and enabling success for both our clients and employees requires opportunity for personal and professional growth. At UpSlope, we take pride in our ability to offer a competitive benefits package and a balanced work environment that allows our employees to thrive.