About the role
cFocus Software seeks a Jr. Geospatial Analyst to join our program supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This position is remote. This position requires a Public Trust Clearance.
Qualifications: * Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Geography or a related field. * 10+ years of relevant professional, internship, academic, military, or project experience in GIS, geospatial analysis, cartography, data management, or location intelligence. * SME experience using ESRI technology such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, ArcGIS Online, web maps, hosted feature layers, Dashboards, or comparable GIS tools. * Understanding of spatial data concepts, coordinate systems, projections, geocoding, vector and raster data, attributes, metadata, data quality, and basic spatial analysis. * Ability to work with common tabular, JSON, web-service, and geospatial formats and to organize and validate data systematically. * Basic experience with Python, ArcGIS Notebooks, SQL, Arcade, or another scripting/query language used for data processing or GIS automation. * Strong attention to detail, analytical reasoning, documentation, organization, communication, and willingness to learn in a collaborative Agile environment. * Ability to satisfy DHS suitability, background-investigation, Entry on Duty, security, and system-access requirements for the assigned position.
Duties: * Acquire, receive, organize, process, update, and maintain geospatial and operational datasets supporting DHS GMO mission programs. * Prepare data for upload, publication, visualization, analysis, sharing, archival, and retrieval within ESRI Portal, ArcGIS Online, GII repositories, and other approved environments. * Perform routine geoprocessing, spatial analysis, data conversion, coordinate validation, field mapping, joins, selections, overlays, and other assigned GIS production activities. * Query and maintain archived geospatial information in open, accessible, and available standards and support applicable data backup, recovery, and records-retention activities. * Follow established naming conventions, folder and repository structures, versioning practices, access restrictions, and data-handling procedures * Perform data-quality assurance and quality-control checks for completeness, accuracy, consistency, currency, schema compliance, geometry, attribution, duplication, and usability. * Document data-quality findings, corrections, assumptions, limitations, source lineage, and unresolved issues; escalate material concerns to senior staff. * Create and maintain dataset, service, and database metadata in accordance with DHS geospatial methodologies, approved standards, and program procedures. * Assist with database metadata design, repository maintenance, data dictionaries, field definitions, source descriptions, terms of use, points of contact, and update schedules. * Support reconciliation of published layers, web services, source data, metadata, and related documentation so that information remains accurate and traceable. * Design, configure, publish, and maintain web maps, hosted layers, and geospatial services under established technical and governance procedures. * Configure appropriate symbology, labeling, pop-ups, filters, fields, scales, legends, and other presentation settings to meet user and mission requirements. * Create and update ArcGIS Dashboards that present real-time information, key performance indicators, status, trends, and operational context. * Assist with Experience Builder applications and other ESRI web experiences by configuring maps, widgets, data sources, layouts, and user-facing content. * Validate that published products display accurate information, perform as expected, and support applicable accessibility, security, and user requirements * Participate in requirements discussions and translate stakeholder data, mapping, visualization, and reporting needs into documented Jira stories, tasks, acceptance criteria, and data specifications. * Execute assigned manual and automated test cases for data workflows, maps, layers, dashboards, services, and geospatial applications; record results and document defects. * Support user acceptance, integration, regression, data-quality, and operational testing and verify that corrections meet defined requirements. * Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demonstrations, reviews, and retrospectives; keep assigned work and blockers current in Jira. * Use Confluence, GitLab, and other Government-approved tools to maintain documentation, scripts, configuration items, decisions, and work products