Geospatial Product Engineering Coordinator
ESRI
Redlands, California
Overview
Use your passion for software development and ArcGIS to put your stamp on the world’s leading GIS software by becoming a product engineer on the software development team focused on advancing standards-based interoperability across ArcGIS products.
In this role, you will work closely with product management to refine and prioritize requirements, articulate user workflows, and act as a program coordinator with the development teams to facilitate building support for standards-based interoperability across products. You will help to test and prototype during implementation and communicate with internal stakeholders throughout the process.
If you have a passion for leading and are motivated to make a real impact on the ArcGIS system, join us!
Responsibilities
- Maintain knowledge of relevant geospatial standards from a holistic customer-centric perspective
- Act as a customer advocate by passionately articulating prioritized use cases to the product development teams
- Coordinate and drive design and development efforts across product teams to ensure a consistent and complete implementation
- Lead and facilitate meetings with product and software engineers
- Create prototypes to test and validate software and provide feedback to the product teams throughout the software development cycle
- Ensure transparency by communicating development progress regularly with product management and stakeholders
- Work with technical writers to create consistent documentation about new features across products
- Share new features with customers via blog posts, learn lessons, and technical workshops
Requirements
- 2+ years of recent practical experience using ArcGIS software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online)
- Experience with geospatial standards, such as OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
- Experience and ability to empathize with and articulate ArcGIS customer needs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including in a leadership or influencer role
- Strong coordination and collaboration skills, including use of project management tools
- Ability to understand and clearly express connections between larger customer goals and software features
- Self-starter with effective time management and organizational skills
- Experience with one or more of the following platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS
- Bachelor’s in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields
Recommended Qualifications
- Software development experience, ideally with the ArcGIS Maps SDKs (Native or Web), and/or ArcGIS API for Python
- Experience or knowledge of other GIS software (GeoServer, QGIS)
- Project management experience using of tools such as GitHub
- Practical experience working as part of the software development process
- Understanding of Agile and design-centric software methodologies and tools
- Master’s in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields
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