Geospatial Data Engineer

Tags: climate change Environment
  • Added Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
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This is a hybrid position which requires 8 days/month in our Washington DC office. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.

About the Program:

The Data Lab is WRIโ€™s core data innovation and delivery unit. We are a team of over 35 engineers, product managers, and data scientists with deep experience setting data strategy, doing quantitative research, and building data tools and products. We work across WRIโ€™s programs, centres, and international offices to use advances in data and technology to help our community improve lives, protect nature, and ensure just transitions. Data of all kinds sits at the heart of how WRI achieves impact in the world, and our world-class research is used by governments, policymakers, NGOs and local communities around the world to improve lives, protect nature, and ensure just transitions. The Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities (https://www.wri.org/cities) builds on WRIโ€™s global and local experience in urban planning and mobility and uses proven solutions and action-oriented tools to make the fast-growing urban environment more resilient to new challenges. The Cities Data team provides cities and local governments with data and tools to support data driven urban planning, addressing different themes: climate risk modeling, population exposure and vulnerability mapping, accessibility to urban services, urban growth, urban heat modeling.

Job Highlight:

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will collaborate with data scientists and analysts in the Cities Data team to develop API services, data pipelines, and other software to conduct geospatial analysis, produce and maintain global and city-level data layers, generate new spatial and temporal urban indicators, and support the development and deployment of interactive dashboards and other visualizations. You will be supported by the Data Lab Engineering Team and Cities Data and Tools team.

What will you do:

Develop Geospatial Tools, Libraries, and Infrastructure (75%):

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