GeoData Developer

Company Description

New Light Technologies is hiring for an exciting position in the Washington DC area building one of the nation’s premier public sources of detailed data and analytics about the U.S. economy and labor market! Apply your skills in Big Data, Master Data Management, Addressing, Geocoding, Geolocation , and Geo-intelligence, to develop, enhance, and maintain a state-of-the-art national scale Geocoding system that produces critical data about trends in employment, hiring, job creation and destruction, earnings, and more at unprecedented geographic, historic, and demographic detail.

Job Description

The candidate will work in an exciting multi-disciplinary environment among a team of talented and dedicated professionals in a variety of fields including Economics, Statistics, Geography, and Computer Science. The candidate will act as a lead in understanding and managing geographic data for a diverse and complex set of users and uses including a number of innovative public web-based analytics applications and high profile research projects. As such, the candidate will work as a subject matter expert (SME) in the area of geographic data management, addressing and geocoding, geographic data and geocoding processing methodologies, quality assurance and control, and geographic data and geocoding software technologies. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring continued regular operation of existing systems and jobs as well as researching, designing, and implementing improvements and longer term enhancements.

Qualifications

ONGOING RESPONSIBILITIES: • Evaluating, integrating, and geocoding new data sources • Management of handling of addresses over time • Management of handling of changes in geography (and data files) over time • Management of handling of regional and local differences in addresses across the U.S. • Developing solutions for improving geocoding accuracy and data quality • Managing regular data production jobs • Developing strategies for handling changes in software over time

SKILLS: Geo: • Thorough understanding of geocoding software, methodologies, and challenges • Understanding of addressing and U.S. Postal and Street address databases • Hands-on skills with GIS, Geospatial and Spatial Data • Understanding of client TIGER data

Data: • Experience with data evaluation and integration • Experience with data cleansing, standardization, un-duplication • Experience with ETL, data processing, data warehousing • Experience with very large datasets and databases • Experience with database design, RDBMS

Application Development: • Experience with application design & development • Capability to develop geocoding algorithms and decision trees • Strong skills in programming, coding, and scripting

Other: • Familiarity with Linux, SAS, ArcGIS, PostGIS, Python • Social, demographic, economic data background helpful • Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment • Strong writing, communication, and documentation, presentation skills • Ability to obtain and hold U.S. Government security clearance

Additional Information

Based in Washington DC, New Light Technologies Inc., (NLT) is an enterprise information solutions provider that combines IT ingenuity and industry intelligence to drive high-performance results for a diverse set of government, commercial and non-profit clients. NLT specializes in full life-cycle development of Information Technology and GIS/Geospatial solutions providing: Project Management; System Architecture; Database Services; Data Development; Web and Application Design & Development; Software Implementation; Training Services; Mobile IT and GIS Solutions. For more information visit www.newlighttechnologies.com.