Geographic Information Systems Engineer

Salary: £54,000 - 94,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior GIS / Geospatial Consultant delivering geospatial solutions within large-scale, data-driven environments.
• Strong consultancy background with experience working in multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder-facing environments.
• Demonstrable experience designing, building and supporting scalable geospatial data platforms and services.
• Deep understanding of geospatial data formats, including GeoPackage, GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs (COGs), FlatGeobuf and PMTiles.
• Hands-on experience developing geospatial data ingestion, transformation, validation, storage and publishing pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of spatial processing workflows and geospatial data engineering best practices.
• Experience consuming and publishing geospatial data via RESTful and OGC-compliant APIs.
• Extensive experience with open-source geospatial technologies, including GDAL, QGIS and OpenLayers.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience in Python, SQL and cloud-native development.
• Experience optimising spatial datasets and services for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and modern data architectures.
• Experience contributing to solution architecture, technical standards, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of version control, DevOps practices and modern engineering principles.
• Basic level of security clearance required before undertaking the assignment.

Responsibilities

• Assist with critical project work over the coming months as part of a multidisciplinary Agile team.
• Help design, build and support modern cloud-native geospatial data services that underpin critical national decision-making.
• Develop scalable geospatial processing pipelines.
• Integrate spatial datasets from multiple sources.
• Deliver high-quality services for analytics, reporting and operational applications.
• Contribute to solution architecture, technical standards, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• GIS
• Support
• OpenLayers
• Python
• SQL
• Security

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We are working with a market-leading IT consultancy on a 6-month contract for a Senior GIS Engineer/Consultant. The role is remote, outside IR35, and offered at market rates of around £500 per day. This is an exciting opportunity to work on critical, cloud-native geospatial services within a multidisciplinary Agile team, supporting modern spatial data engineering and transformational technology for important national decision-making.

last updated 32 week of 2026