
Principal Geospatial Data Management Engineer
NextEra Energy, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
ETLPostGISPython
About the role
- Drive innovation by integrating cutting-edge geospatial data management technologies
- Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver advanced geospatial data management and analytics solutions
- Architect, design, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines for geospatial applications
- Lead the development and optimization of ETL processes for large volumes of geospatial and tabular data
- Design, build, and interact with API-driven web services for product integration
- Collaborate with backend and platform engineers for secure communication
- Ensure data quality across all stages of the data lifecycle
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 6+ years experience
- Expert knowledge of coordinate reference systems
- Strong experience with geospatial analytics and working with geospatial data formats
- Proven experience in national or global scale data challenges
- Experience with data streaming and real-time data processing
- Understanding of Python
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git and Agile methodologies
- Expertise in Safe Software FME and Esri Enterprise GIS platforms
- Knowledge of geospatial libraries and tools (e.g. Esri, GDAL, PDAL, PostGIS, GeoPandas, Shapely)
- Awareness of machine learning, deep learning and AI applications related to geospatial data engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Wide range of benefits to support employees and their eligible family members.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
geospatial data managementETL processesdata pipelinesAPI-driven web servicesPythongeospatial analyticsdata streamingreal-time data processinggeospatial librariesmachine learning
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationtechnical guidance
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree