Alphident Technologies Inc - GIS Solution Engineer / Developer

Developer is needed in Remote, United States.

Client: Alphident Technologies Inc

Location: Remote

Contract: Contract

Job Description

Job Title: GIS Solution Engineer / Developer

Work location: Remote

Agency: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of Inspector General (OIG)

Duration of contract: 1 year

Job Responsibilities

Implementation & Development

• Implement approved enterprise GIS architecture in OIG pre-production and production environments; configure and fine-tune ESRI and AWS components.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code scripts (Terraform, Python, PowerShell) to automate deployment and maintenance of GIS environments.
• Build and optimize geospatial databases, services, and applications supporting healthcare claims analysis.
• Develop automated geocoding scripts/tools for monthly incoming data and billions of existing warehouse records using AWS Location Service, ESRI tools, or Databricks.

Data Pipeline Development

• Create processes to convert tabular business information into spatial data and load into Enterprise Geodatabase.
• Develop graph data creation pipelines to represent entities (patients, providers, hospitals) and relationships from healthcare claims data for link analysis.
• Embed geocoding and graph conversion processes into ETL pipelines or design standalone processes executed post-ingestion.
• Integrate ESRI GeoAnalytics Engine with Databricks for large-scale spatial processing.

Application Support

• Support development of GIS dashboard/Web-GIS application with charts, graphs, and maps for spatial representation of claim data.
• Assist in building web-based graph data dashboard for link analysis of fraud, abuse, and waste networks.
• Troubleshoot client issues related to Esri application deployment, system architecture, and data integration.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Computer Science, Geography, or related field.
• 4-6 years of experience with Esri technology: creating maps, spatial analysis, configuring web applications.
• 2+ years’ experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Must be eligible for and maintain a Public Trust background clearance; must qualify for a government-issued ID badge (PIV card).

Technical Skills

• ESRI Stack: ArcGIS Enterprise 11.x, ArcPy, ArcGIS Pro, Geodatabase design, GeoAnalytics Engine, GeoAI tools.
• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Neptune, Location Service), IAM, VPC, CloudFormation/Terraform.
• Databases: Amazon Redshift with RA3 nodes for storing dimensional Data Warehouse data. Microsoft SQL Server (for IBM InfoSphere DataStage, IBM Cognos Metadata repository on Windows Amazon EC2 instance).
• Programming: Python (ArcPy, Pandas, GeoPandas), SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST/SOAP APIs.
• Data Engineering: ETL/ELT pipelines, IBM InfoSphere DataStage.

Preferred Certifications

• Esri Technical Certification: Desktop Associate or Enterprise Administration.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• Base salary based on job, experience, and skill level.
• Health benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) with 4% company match.
• 10 days Paid time off (PTO) and eleven (11) paid federal holidays.

Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• What is your work status: US Citizen, Permanent resident, H1B, OPT?
• Do you currently hold an active security clearance?
• What is your expected Hourly Rate?

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Required)

Experience:

• Esri technology: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Esri Technical Certification (Preferred)
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Preferred)