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This role will support the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of geospatial applications, user interfaces, workflows, APIs, and related services.\nThe Senior Geospatial Application Developer will lead application development activities and collaborate with program team members across infrastructure, security, data, and operations to ensure applications meet federal IT requirements and mission needs.\nResponsibilities and Duties:\nLead application development efforts for enterprise geospatial solutions.\nDevelop, enhance, and maintain geospatial applications, user interfaces, workflows, and APIs.\nSupport new development and maintenance of existing geospatial solutions.\nCollaborate with infrastructure, security, data, and program teams to ensure applications meet DHS IT requirements.\nSupport implementation and maintenance of ArcGIS Enterprise and related geospatial services.\nDevelop web-based GIS applications, dashboards, and integration workflows.\nSupport geospatial data management, visualization, analysis, and application integration activities.\nParticipate in application testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, and maintenance activities.\nDevelop and maintain technical documentation, application specifications, and user guides.\nSupport cybersecurity, role-based access, and privacy requirements within application development activities.\nProvide technical guidance to application development team members.\nSupport development, testing, production, and operations and maintenance environments.\nRequirements: \nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geography, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.\nMinimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience.\nExperience leading application development teams or development workstreams.\nExperience developing applications including user interfaces, workflows, and APIs.\nProficiency with programming languages such as Python, C++, JavaScript, C#, .NET, or similar technologies.\nExperience supporting new development and/or maintenance of existing geospatial solutions.\nExperience working with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server, or related Esri technologies.\nExperience developing web applications, dashboards, workflows, or APIs.\nExperience collaborating with infrastructure, security, data, and program teams.\nExperience supporting applications within federal IT, cybersecurity, or compliance requirements.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.\nAbility to work independently and support multiple priorities.\nPreferred Qualifications: \nMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geography, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience developing applications using ArcGIS APIs and SDKs.\nExperience supporting ArcGIS GeoEvent Server.\nExperience with cloud-native application development.\nExperience supporting Kubernetes-based environments.\nExperience supporting GIS dashboards, analytics, and visualization tools.\nExperience supporting DHS or other federal government geospatial programs.\nExperience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, or automated deployment processes.\nEsri technical certifications.\nDue to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process. 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