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Data Scientist (GIS)

Job Details: Data Scientist (GIS)

Job Description: Data Scientist (GIS)

Position Id: G0224-0008
Job Type:6-12 months (contract)
Country: Namibia
Location: Windhoek
Pay Rate: Open
Contact Recruiter:+4972312839009

Job Description:

Trigyn has a contractual opportunity for a Data Scientist (GIS). This resource will be working at our client site in Namibia.

Job Description:
- Manipulate high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources to visualize and identify patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends.
- Visualization: Ability to design interactive data interfaces for communicating stories with data and unveiling insights within complex datasets.
- Possesses a strong ability and knowledge of database principles, data profiling, statistics and data modelling and can apply this knowledge in new or complex situations.
- Mapping, spatial analysis, data analytics and visualization.
- Data extraction, web scraping and sourcing of the open-source GIS datasets to complement existing datasets.

Managing the open source / open data artifacts
- Developing (open) data interfaces, use and design (meta) data schemes.
- Manages open-source projects developed by client.
- Establishes and ensures quality levels for source code and commits.

Competencies:
Bachelor's or higher degree, in Computer Science and/or Data Science or a directly related field or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.

Experience and Requirements:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in Data science with at least one project on Geospatial analytics using tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS etc.,
- Experience using open-source GIS datasets such as Satellite Images
- Domain knowledge of Geoscience and Earth Science are highly desirable.
- Previous experience in ETL process: data extraction, orchestrating data pipelines
- Experience working in an international context, ideally with international organizations is an asset.
- MLOps knowledge is highly desirable.
- Data extraction, orchestrating data pipelines and data transformation using e.g. Apache Airflow
- Good working knowledge of open-source Python libraries for Geospatial analytics
- Strong computer programming language skills in multiple languages and data management tools.
- Experience in Machine Learning Libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras).
- Experience with open-source data transformation, analytics and data visualization tools.
- Experience with GIS-based data visualization and analysis (e.g. shapefile generation, maps and overlays visualizations) is highly desirable.
- Experience working with cloud hosting platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Docker, Google Cloud is highly desirable.
- Someone with the ability to define GIS workflows and create POCs is an asset.
- Someone based in Namibia is highly desirable.

Languages:
- English (required)
- Local Namibian languages

For immediate response, please send your Resume to Global-Recruitment@Trigyn.com

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES is a multinational IT services company with resources deployed in 25 countries. TRIGYN is an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 (ISMS) and CMMI Level 5 certified company. TRIGYN has offices in United States, Canada, Germany Switzerland and India.