What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior GIS Developer position at Peraton?
| Requisition ID | 2025-161884 | Position Category | Information Technology | Clearance | No Clearance Required |
Peraton is seeking an experience Senior GIS Developer to join Peraton's First Responder Solutions team delivering mission-critical public safety systems used by major cities and agencies nationwide. As part of our CommandPoint CAD platform development, you will build secure, high-availability dispatch and emergency response software. You will contribute to real-time call-handling, incident management, resource routing and mapping integration that supports law enforcement, fire, and EMS operations. You will work with geospatial data, mapping tools, and interoperable data-sharing frameworks. Your work will directly impact public safety and first responders across jurisdictions, helping communities respond to emergencies quickly and reliably.
Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:
Focus
- Collaborating with teams to implement scalable, secure, efficient, and maintainable code.
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure system reliability and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and design solutions.
- Develop and maintain software features, APIs, and integrations.
- Conduct unit testing, debugging, and code reviews to ensure code quality.
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and performance issues in a timely manner.
- Document technical designs, system architecture, and code for knowledge sharing.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and contribute to technical innovation.
Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that align with business and technical requirements.
This role involves writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code, collaborating with teams to gather requirements, and developing scalable features, APIs, and integrations.
Responsibilities include unit testing, debugging, and code reviews, as well as troubleshooting issues and documenting technical designs and system architecture.
Key outputs include high-quality, tested code, well-documented codebases, robust testing coverage, timely feature implementations, resolved bugs, performance optimization reports, and contributions to team knowledge sharing and innovation.
Key Outputs
- High-quality, tested, and deployable code.
- Well-documented codebases with comments and technical documentation.
- Unit, integration, and contract tests ensuring code quality and robustness.
- Contributions to code repositories and version control systems.
- Code review feedback and improvements for team collaboration.
- Resolved issues and bug fixes documented in tracking systems.
- Feature implementations delivered on time and aligned with requirements.
- Knowledge sharing sessions and documentation, per team best practices.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 12 years of experience or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience or a PhD and 8 years of experience or a High School diploma and 16 years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must have strong proficiency in C# with hands-on experience developing applications using the .NET framework
- Must have proven experience with WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) for building user interfaces
- Experience with ESRI and ArcGIS platforms, including creating, analyzing, and maintaining geospatial data
- Knowledge of GIS tools for mapping, spatial analysis, and data visualization
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, and software development best practices
- Experience with unit testing, debugging, and code reviews to ensure code quality
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, and version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve performance and reliability issues
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to document technical designs and system architecture clearly and effectively
- Ability to integrate geospatial data with other enterprise systems or applications
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, or containerization technologies
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law.