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Axiom Consultants · 20 hours ago

Hydrographic Data Model Software Engineer (GIS)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Axiom Consultants is looking for a Software Engineer III to support the NOAA Office of Coast Survey. The role involves developing software for ocean model predictions and ensuring compliance with S-100 standards, as well as providing support for various interoperability and operationalization tasks related to S-100 data.

Cloud ComputingConsulting

Responsibilities

Assist with developing software to encode ocean model predictions and bathymetric output and format it to S-100 conformant product specifications using a combination of HPC and nowCOAST cloud resources in collaboration with others on the PMN Team and nowCOAST Development Team

Assist with developing scripts to validate S-102/S-104/S-111 against S-100 standards

Assist with onboarding and maintaining S-100 metadata Application Programming Interface (API) to ensure metadata for S-102/S-104/S-111

Assist with developing and managing interoperability between different S-100 based products

Provide support with portrayal enhancements to improve product interoperability

Assist with designing and developing tools to enable the OCS to operationalize S-100 data for the broader maritime community

Assist with developing and/or apply existing open source software to continuously monitor the end-to-end generation of S-104 and S-111 products and provide alerts when problems occur

Assist with writing documentation to support the maintenance and operations of S-104/S-111 generation including metadata

Provide support with S-104/S-111 developers in hydrographic offices of other countries in the development of S-104/S-111 software

Qualification

Software developmentGeographic Information Systems (GIS)PostgreSQLAPIsPythonDjango REST FrameworkXML Schema (XSD)LinuxDebugging principlesVersion controlMetadata schemasData transformationsGeospatial analysis

Required

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, geospatial science, physical science, or physical oceanography (education equivalency: 4 years of work experience)

Experience: 4-7 years in the field of software development, software engineering, GIS, and/or technical scientific field

Software development including Python, Integrated Development Environments, debugging principles, continuous integration testing and automated documentation

Knowledge and experience with version control best practices and experience with version control software

Strong understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, including spatial data models (vector, raster), projections, coordinate systems, and geospatial analysis

Proficiency with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL and PostGIS, including schema design and optimization

Ability to work within Linux-based computer systems

Experience in developing, maintaining, or extending metadata schemas

Experience working in a technical/scientific field including code documentation

Experience with XML Schema (XSD), DTDs, and transformations (XSLT)

Experience with Django REST Framework and deploying Django apps to production

Experience with APIs and data exchange standards, with the ability to design endpoints that expose metadata schemas to support dataset discovery and interoperability

Experience designing and validating XML documents using XSD and DTDs, and performing data transformations with XSLT

Experience integrating visualizations with backend APIs to render dynamic data

Preferred

Familiarity with NOAA's scientific raster and vector data sets (e.g., ocean model forecast guidance, bathymetry, and in-situ weather and ocean observations) and scientific data formats (e.g., netCDF, HDF5, shapefiles, geopackages)

Familiarity with AWS services and resources (e.g., Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS))

Familiarity monitoring system performance, resource utilization, and application logs to ensure high availability, reliability, and efficiency of data workflows

Familiarity with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman)

Familiarity with container-based software development and deployment (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Familiarity with developing interactive web-based visualizations using JavaScript libraries such as D3.js and OpenLayers, including mapping and dashboard applications