GIS Analyst

Overview
DRT Strategies delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to large federal agencies, the U.S. Navy, state and local government and commercial clients in health care, technology, and financial services industries.
The three letters of our name, DRT, stand for Driving Resolution Together, which is the core philosophy on which the company was founded. That is, we collaborate with our clients to solve their most pressing challenges - together.
We are problem solvers dedicated to your success, combining Fortune 500 experience with small business responsiveness. We have established a reputation with our clients as a forward-thinking consulting firm with demonstrated success in implementing solutions that lead to meaningful results. Our world-class consultants unite people to work collaboratively to achieve project goals and make vision a reality.
Project Description:
DRT provides GIS solutions to address diverse, complex, and emerging problems within the public health domains of environmental health, infectious disease, chronic disease, and emergency preparedness/response. Our support includes the design, development, and enhancements of internal and external applications, websites, and database solutions with geospatial components. Our team develops innovative data capture and analysis techniques in the field to enhance emergency response efforts all around the world.
Job Summary:
The GIS Analyst Mid works directly with public health GIS analysts, coordinators, epidemiologists, and technologists to address environmental health and emergency preparedness and response issues; and embraces, leverages, and promotes geospatial technology.
Responsibilities:

• Identifies, recommends, and performs geospatial analyses in support of public health projects
• Develop and manage sewershed boundary polygon geospatial database for the >1600 wastewater sampling sites in the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program. Identify appropriate source data for sewershed delineation, which may include unvalidated sewersheds, gravity main pipes, or non-spatial sewer network data such as digital maps, among other sources.
• Develop and update guidance for sewershed delineation processes and sewershed boundary polygon quality assessment
• Develop library of spatial data layers relevant to public health or infectious disease targets tested by NWSS
• Provide geospatial technical assistance and support to state, tribe, local, and territory (STLT) health departments
• Performs GIS technical and analytic information services when analyzing, summarizing, and coding the scientific data contained within information systems and databases related to public health
• Directs, administers, or coordinates GIS technical information services related to information systems and GIS analysis projects
• Increases the efficiency of existing workflows and developing and/or enhancing tools for geospatial data collection and analysis related to public health
• Presents and demonstrates technical concepts and applications to non-GIS project partners
• Publishes data layers, maps, operations dashboards and StoryMaps using ArcGIS Portal

Required Experience:

• Must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust with the US federal government
• At least four years’ experience with geospatial science and GIS technology, ArcGIS suite of software, GIS data and GIS data sources
• Experience using geospatial tools and packages in R and ArcGIS, QGIS or other spatial software is required. Ability to automate workflows in python or PySpark preferred. Experience with the DCIPHER platform preferred.
• Familiarity with national scale geospatial data layers such as US Census, HIFLD, or USDA data is preferred.
• Experience with demographic analysis, network analysis, time-series analysis, cartography, data management and other GIS-related fields; SQL, Python, and R
• Familiarity with software products such as ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online and Portal, Google (Maps, Google Earth), GPS technology, and Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Knowledge of geospatial and mapping concepts, such as spatial analysis, map projections, etc.
• Working knowledge of Esri JavaScript API/REST API using Python
• Excellent data management skills

The ideal candidate should enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with diverse stakeholders including public health departments, wastewater utilities, epidemiologists, and data scientists.
Salary Range:

• $59,200 - $78,700

Company Benefits
DRT offers full-time benefit eligible employees a competitive total compensation package. Employees may begin participating in employer sponsored group medical, dental, and vision coverage on their first day of employment. DRT also has a 401(K)-retirement plan, company paid short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D coverage, and an employee assistant program (EAP). Employees may also elect critical illness coverage, accident coverage, flexible spending accounts, and health saving account options. The DRT leave programs include Paid Time Off (PTO) each calendar year, paid holidays annually, paid parental leave, and unpaid job protected leave administered in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).