What are the responsibilities and job description for the Geographic Information System Developer position at V Group Inc.?
Direct Client: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Job Title: GIS developer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 333 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Position Type: Contract
Hours Per Week: 35 Hours
Interview Type: Webcam or In-Person
Ceipal ID: MTA_GIS043_MA
Requirement ID:
Background:
The MTA operates a comprehensive transportation network across the New York City Metropolitan area, southern New York, Long Island, and Connecticut. This includes subways, rail lines, tunnels, elevated structures, yards, depots, stations, and maintenance facilities. The MTA HQ Office of Security oversees the Security Program for all MTA agencies (NYCT, LIRR, MNR, MTAPD) and ensures projects are delivered with effective security measures to protect customers, staff, and assets. A shortage of qualified personnel in this office hampers the achievement of security objectives and critical program needs.
Project Objectives:
The GIS developer will support the development of GIS data, integrating drawings, maps, and other data sources to locate agency security camera assets. The project aims to create a GIS-supported environment that displays the enterprise video management system, helping users quickly identify camera locations based on MTA place names and entity locations (e.g., bus stops, subway platforms), and effectively organize multi-level facility data within MTA. Lastly, the resource shall support the office on other geospatial projects including the development of an all-agency GIS map for security assets for incident dashboard, BI data fusion projects and other GIS efforts.
Responsibilities
Catalog and organize agency wide GIS data, collaborate with agency GIS team to collect and validate completeness of mapping. Collect agency currently available camera locations (lat/long or other references) and transpose them into GIS dataset.
Perform georeferenced workflow to incorporate non-GIS drawings such as floorplans, as-builts and other documents into geospatial environments.
Register and document GIS data set including Camera locations, creating GIS data warehouse which can be linked to the MTA Enterprise Video management system based on unique ID of each camera.
Collaborate with MTA security end users on mapping needs and provide support to the GIS incident tracking dashboard, UAS airspace management mapping support.
Skills
- A minimum of 3 years of using ESRI ArcGIS, preferably ArcGIS Pro and other related add-on.
- A good understanding of GIS and mapping fundamentals.
- A minimum of 2 years in performing any large GIS data ETL operation (extract, transform, load), including demonstrating any knowledge in georeferencing tasks.
- Experience in developing GIS applications using Rest API and other ArcGIS used protocols and packages (e.g. StoryMaps)
- A familiar understanding of different mapping file formats (including CAD files, BIM, Google KML/KMZ)
- Understanding of SQL operation as well as other geospatial analysis and query.
- General understanding of MTA service areas.
- Effective communication skills and a general understanding of MS Office (Visio) and other applications to create design diagrams.
V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal, State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30 states, including but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA, NM, VT, and WA.
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