Your New Role and Responsibilities
As a senior member of our geospatial software engineering team, you will provide innovative and high‐value solutions to a range of complex spatial and technical challenges for our customers. You will work across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, design, development, integration, and testing, and will frequently apply a broad range of tools and modern geospatial technologies to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
* Lead geospatial software prototyping and technical investigations to define optimal development approaches
* Provide technical leadership across the design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of geospatial solutions
* Analyse and refine complex functional and non‐functional requirements with engineers and stakeholders
* Design and build custom geospatial applications, services, ESRI/ArcGIS integrations, and JavaScript‐based user interfaces
* Architect and implement geospatial data ingestion, transformation, and processing workflows
* Ensure software quality and continuous improvement through best practices, secure development, and mentoring junior engineers
What You'll Bring to Make An Impact
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Geospatial Science, or equivalent experience aligned to a senior engineering role
* Proven experience in a senior geospatial software engineering position within engineering or project environments
* Extensive expertise in ESRI technologies (ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro) and custom geospatial application development (JavaScript)
* Strong experience designing and implementing geospatial data engineering and ETL workflows
* Experience integrating open‐source GIS tools, external systems (e.g., REST APIs), and modern CI/CD practices
* Proficiency with Agile methodologies, containerisation (e.g., Docker), and development tools such as Git, JIRA, and Confluence
Requirements
* This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for a DISA clearance
Benefits
Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programmes, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes a team with a diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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