We’re hiring! Associate GIS Specialist @ NYC City Planning (DCP) [Filled]
We are hiring an Associate GIS Specialist to expand the NYC Department of City Planning’s (DCP) GIS team. We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated and innovative to help us modernize our GIS infrastructure and continue to improve data quality and accessibility at DCP.
You will have a lead role in building tools to improve how the GIS team completes regular tasks and processes, re-envisioning GIS technologies used by the agency’s 100+ GIS users, and documenting processes and procedures. This work will be informed by outreach efforts to GIS users to understand their use cases for geospatial data, spatial analysis, web mapping, and automated processes. You should be knowledgeable of spatial data and analyses, comfortable sharing your expertise with GIS users by providing technical support, informed about good data maintenance and documentation practices, and excited about encouraging new ways to leverage GIS technologies within the agency.
You will assist the Open Data Coordinator in maintaining and expanding the agency’s open data offerings and answer questions from the public about DCP’s data.
We are looking for someone who is excited about modernizing and expanding our GIS technology offerings, and improving our data maintenance processes. If you’re interested in shaping the future of city planning, building smarter government, and joining a successful team you should definitely apply.
About DCP’s GIS team
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team maintains core city datasets, such as street centerlines and building addresses, which power the 911 system. The EDM team ensures that DCP Planners have access to quality data to inform decisions that ultimately shape NYC. The GIS team, a unit within EDM, manages the agency’s extensive spatial data warehouse, collaborates on the agency’s data strategy, promotes good data practices amongst data users throughout the agency, and publishes the agency’s open data for public access. Our data products support a myriad of data systems and applications used by City Planning, other city agencies, and the public.
The GIS team is a small team where you’ll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact. We are currently looking to modernize our GIS infrastructure, and improve our existing data maintenance and distribution processes and systems. We’re going to trust your opinion and expect you to help the team make the right decisions. You’ll be empowered to dive into our processes, test new tools, and give your thoughts on how we can do better.
We are only a small part of DCP, New York City’s planning agency, one of the largest city planning agencies in the world. You’ll have a chance to work with brilliant colleagues, many of them renowned experts in their fields.
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What will you be working on?
- Improving, maintaining, and modernizing DCP’s GIS and data management infrastructure.
- Conducting outreach to GIS users to understand their uses cases for geospatial data, spatial analysis, web mapping, and automated work processes, using this to inform improvements and future projects.
- Researching and promoting new ways to leverage GIS technologies.
- Providing technical assistance and support for internal users.
- Promoting good data and documentation practices amongst data users throughout the agency, ensuring that users can find the data they need, understand the appropriate uses of the data, and follow best practices for creating data sets within their areas of expertise.
- Developing and maintaining data ETL pipelines, with a focus on writing scalable, clean, and fault-tolerant code to handle disparate data sources.
- Sharing your work and lessons learned via blog posts, conference talks, and lectures with colleagues and the world.
What tools will you be working with?
The primary technologies we use but are certainly not limited to are:
- Esri’s ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online
- Python/ArcPy
- DigitalOcean
- Git/Github/Github Actions
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS
- QGIS or other open source GIS technologies
- Geosupport
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You should apply if:
- You have 4 or more years of experience or relevant education in the GIS field and are knowledgeable of ESRI products.
- You have experience working with ArcSDE, SQL Server, or other RDBMS.
- You have practical work experience creating scripts in Python/ArcPy and SQL to automate processes in ArcGIS.
- You are familiar with spatial data formats and have experience working with spatial data. Familiarity with PostGIS, Carto, or GeoPandas is a plus.
- You are very organized and thorough, with a strong research, analytical, and organizational skills.
- You have worked within a team and understand the importance of collaboration, teamwork, and communication.
- You are comfortable communicating about data and GIS processes with colleagues of varying levels of proficiency.
What you get
- Salary: $75,000 — $85,000 commensurate with experience
- New York City health benefits, paid vacation/holidays, and eligibility for NYC retirement plans
- Agency-issued MacBook Pro and dual-monitor workstation
- Modern office in downtown Manhattan
- Strong work/life balance
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