GIS Analyst – Developer

Symbiont, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a multi-disciplined, employee-owned engineering and consulting firm that offers challenging and rewarding growth opportunities to our employees. Our client base includes multiple Fortune 100 companies, municipalities, and state agencies. Symbiont’s wholly owned subsidiary, Symbiont Design-Build, LLC, provides turnkey design-build services for industrial clients. Symbiont’s industrial clients are located throughout the United States and include top-brand brewing, beverage bottling, and dairy companies. Symbiont’s municipal clients are generally located in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Symbiont is one of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s 2012 Top Work Places.

Our Milwaukee office is seeking a full-time GIS Analyst-Developer. The ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree and approximately five years GIS experience, strong academic credentials, demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, as well as excellent personal and academic references. Experience in the consulting industry is preferred but not required.

Duties of the position will include:

• Generate GIS maps, tools and data to support project activities
• Develop and manage GIS databases.
• Create and maintain web-based GIS project sites.
• Develop GIS Data Models
• Prepare Software Requirement Specifications.
• Prepare GIS spatial and sampling analysis models and maps.
• Create simple scripts and/or data models.
• Geodatabase management, cartography, spatial data creation, and analysis
• GPS data collection using Trimble units, post-processing and manipulation.

Special consideration will be given to candidates with knowledge or experience in the following:

• Current web development trends and technologies including Open GIS standards, REST, AJAX
• Computer application languages .NET, Silverlight, Javascript, Python, HTML.
• ESRI software (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server) including tools and databases such as Model Builder, Shapefiles, Geodatabases.
• MS SQL Server (ArcSDE)
• Asset Management software implementation
• GIS principles and software.
• Database design, information needs, and metadata development standards.
• Statistical analysis techniques and quantitative geographic analysis methods.

Qualified candidates should submit resume and cover letter to:

Symbiont
6737 West Washington Street, Suite 3440
West Allis, WI 53214
Attn: SKS