Geographic Information Systems Engineer
Salary: £54,000 - 94,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience as a Senior GIS / Geospatial Consultant delivering geospatial solutions within large-scale, data-driven environments.
- Strong consultancy background with experience working in multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder-facing environments.
- Demonstrable experience designing, building and supporting scalable geospatial data platforms and services.
- Deep understanding of geospatial data formats, including GeoPackage, GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs (COGs), FlatGeobuf and PMTiles.
- Hands-on experience developing geospatial data ingestion, transformation, validation, storage and publishing pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of spatial processing workflows and geospatial data engineering best practices.
- Experience consuming and publishing geospatial data via RESTful and OGC-compliant APIs.
- Extensive experience with open-source geospatial technologies, including GDAL, QGIS and OpenLayers.
- Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python, SQL and cloud-native development.
- Experience optimising spatial datasets and services for performance, scalability and reliability.
- Good understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and modern data architectures.
- Experience contributing to solution architecture, technical standards, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of version control, DevOps practices and modern engineering principles.
- Basic level of security clearance required before undertaking the assignment.
- Assist with critical project work over the coming months as part of a multidisciplinary Agile team.
- Help design, build and support modern cloud-native geospatial data services that underpin critical national decision-making.
- Develop scalable geospatial processing pipelines.
- Integrate spatial datasets from multiple sources.
- Deliver high-quality services for analytics, reporting and operational applications.
- Contribute to solution architecture, technical standards, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GCP
- GIS
- Support
- OpenLayers
- Python
- SQL
- Security
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We are working with a market-leading IT consultancy on a 6-month contract for a Senior GIS Engineer/Consultant. The role is remote, outside IR35, and offered at market rates of around £500 per day. This is an exciting opportunity to work on critical, cloud-native geospatial services within a multidisciplinary Agile team, supporting modern spatial data engineering and transformational technology for important national decision-making.
last updated 33 week of 2026