Data and Product Visualization Expert at Climate Prediction and Applications Centre

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in Geo-Informatics, Computer Science, IT or related field
• Minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience in fullstack geo-applications design and development
• Experience in Web GIS development.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of fundamental GIS concepts
• Solid and demonstrated understanding of how to develop and integrate GIS components on top of the typical web development
• Experience with spatial databases, specifically PostGIS and a good understanding of spatial queries and interfacing databases with GIS tools
• Experience with web mapping libraries including Mapbox GL JS ( we use the open source alternative which has a similar API ), Mapbox Style Specification and Leaflet JS. Open Layers is a plus.
• Experience in manipulating and analyzing Earth Observation data in different data formats. Our data is mostly in NetCDF and Geotiff formats. An understanding of packages like GDAL/OGR is key.
• Experience with Geospatial Data Servers is required. This includes but not limited to an understanding of OGC concepts and standards, open-source tools like Mapserver / Geoserver, Vector Tile Servers e.tc
• Skilled in picking the right tool for the task at hand. Have a wide knowledge of existing tools for accomplishing different GIS related tasks and be able to do research and benchmarking of the latest web GIS related tools.
• Experience in Backend development using various languages and frameworks including Django, Go and Node JS.
• Experience developing microservices and exposing them as REST APIs. Most of our APIs are built on either Python, Go or Node JS. Experience with other languages is a plus.
• Experience developing content management systems that can be used to update and interface with data and web content (images, documents, data files etc). Most of our CMSs are built with Wagtail
• Experience with developing automated processes and workflows for ingesting and processing of spatial data. Our existing processes are mostly written in Python. A few other utility processes are written in Go.
• Experience in NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB
• Experience in Responsive Frontend development with Javascript and Javascript libraries, specifically React JS and styling with CSS/Sass
• Experience in application containerization using Docker, orchestration with Docker Compose and deployment on cloud infrastructure. We currently use Google Cloud for our cloud deployments.
• Experience in software version control using Git and Github
• A good understanding of Open-Source concepts and tools. We strive to use opensource tools and technologies where possible. We also strive to make most of our developed tools open source on our Github