RESPONSIBILITIES
Maintain and optimize geospatial databases, ensuring performance and reliability.
Manage GIS software installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and integration, including ArcGIS Enterprise.
Deploy geospatial data updates within specified timelines and service level agreements.
Develop and document database architecture, interdependencies, and operational processes.
Automate processes to enhance system efficiency and reduce manual workload.
Ensure system backups and high availability in coordination with server administrators.
Troubleshoot and resolve GIS system issues, including after-hours incidents as needed.
Support backend development for geospatial applications, including ETL scripts (e.g., Python, FME).
Provide technical expertise on database security, performance, and GIS-related architectural design.
Evaluate emerging technologies and propose upgrades to software, hardware, and system configurations.
Maintain compliance with organizational policies for database access and permissions.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Systems, Computer Science, or related fields.
5+ years of experience in GIS database management.
Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise setup, configuration, and administration.
Expertise in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and other RDBMS, and proficiency in Python scripting for automation.
Hands-on experience implementing GIS within cloud-based database solutions and migrations to the cloud.
Strong understanding of spatial data modeling, GIS server tuning, and web-based geospatial applications.
Experience developing spatial data ETL scripts and tools using Python, or other scripting languages.
Experience managing GIS data layers with version control and working with enterprise geodatabases.
Excellent organizational skills and proven ability to meet deadlines.
The ability to prepare and present complex technical information to non-technical audiences.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to) :
Comprehensive healthcare coverage : Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
Commuter and parking benefits
401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and / or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
Gis Administrator • VA Richmond, US