Solution Architect (Geospatial)

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

To meet our growing UK business needs and future development aspirations, we currently have an opportunity for a Geospatial Solution Architect within our Digital team, to be based at any of our office hub locations in the UK. The successful person will become part of a respected and ambitious company with excellent career prospects and international opportunities.

This is a genuinely exciting opportunity for a fantastic candidate to join the quickly growing Digital team here at Jacobs; responsible for driving new ways of working and product incubation across a range of varied sectors with a focus on Water and Environment. You will be part of our world class Digital Factory; a cross functional team of data scientists, developers, and geospatial experts driving new technologies and ways of working within the business.

Working with ESRI, Open Source, JavaScript, Python and other GIS and development software, you will provide critical input to delivering projects on time and budget. With exposure to a wide range of market sectors and an extensive knowledge pool, you will deliver dynamic, innovative solutions to internal and external clients.

Here's What You'll Need:

You'll be a geospatial technology evangelist with the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience and be comfortable getting involved in sales and app demonstration activities. We need you to help lead our transformation to a digital business.

You will also have:

• An appetite to solve problems in creative and versatile ways, working as part of a collaborative team at pace.
• The ability to design the appropriate architecture for a given solution and challenge the design of existing solutions.
• Confidence in taking on projects and seeing them through to completion.
• An interest in emerging geospatial trends and technologies.
• Experience in staff resource management / team management

Essential Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of JavaScript/ TypeScript for front-end development and development using the ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise platform
• Experience in other ESRI APIs - python and REST
• Automation of Geospatial Processes, Version control and code collaboration tools such as git/ GitHub.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

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