Job Description

Every map is only as good as the data underneath it. That data would be yours.

A multinational defence organisation in The Hague keeps a large estate of geospatial data, on its own servers and in the cloud, and a team of GIS experts who depend on it. It needs a data manager who keeps that estate clean, documented and ready to use. Fully on site, with further years of work expected after the first period.

What you would be doing

• Organising and maintaining geospatial datasets, metadata, geodatabases and spatial repositories
• Running ingestion, transformation, validation and quality checks, and keeping versions and integrity under control
• Supporting the GIS platforms on premises and in the cloud - backups, documentation, obsolescence and day-to-day fixes - with the IT colleagues who run them
• Doing the everyday spatial analysis, maps and standard products the teams ask for
• Taking part in project meetings and suggesting better ways to work with the data

What you would bring

• A degree in geospatial science or a related field plus two years' experience, or around six years of progressive hands-on work in the field
• At least two years of geospatial data management and of the ESRI suite, ArcGIS Pro in particular, including mosaic datasets
• Real depth in coordinate systems, projections, metadata, vector and raster formats, and data QA/QC
• Strong Excel, good analytical and organisational habits, and fluent business English
• Nice to have: ArcPy and ArcGIS Toolbox development, tile cache creation on common tiling schemes, and experience preparing data for defence systems and standards

Why this one is worth a look

A specialist seat in an international GIS team, with follow-on years already expected and a standing framework behind it.