Lorien
Geographic Information Systems Engineer
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GIS Engineer
6-Month Contract
650 Inside IR35
Hybrid – 1 Day per Week in Central London
We're seeking an experienced GIS Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering innovative geospatial solutions within a risk and analytics environment. This is a hands-on role focused on building production-grade geospatial services, spatial data pipelines, and interactive mapping solutions. You'll work closely with architects, product leaders, and engineering teams to develop scalable GIS platforms while making use of modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and developing geospatial services and APIs that underpin business-critical analytics products.
- Building and maintaining spatial data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and validating large geospatial datasets.
- Applying advanced GIS expertise across coordinate systems, spatial analysis, topology, cartography, and data quality management.
- Developing robust Python-based solutions using modern software engineering practices.
- Contributing to web application delivery using TypeScript and modern frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Leveraging AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve development efficiency.
- Collaborating with product managers, architects, and technical stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in GIS Engineering or Geospatial Development roles.
- Excellent Python development skills, ideally using libraries such as GeoPandas, Shapely, Fiona, Rasterio, GDAL/OGR, and PyProj.
- Experience working with spatial databases such as PostGIS.
- Strong knowledge of coordinate systems, projections, geometry, topology, and spatial analysis.
- Experience with GIS platforms including ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, or MapServer.
- Hands-on experience with interactive web mapping solutions using ArcGIS Maps SDK, Leaflet, OpenLayers, or Mapbox.
- Exposure to front-end development using TypeScript and Angular or React.
- Experience using Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Agile delivery methodologies.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
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Desirable
- Insurance, risk analytics, catastrophe modelling, or financial services experience.
- Azure cloud experience.
- Knowledge of containerisation and distributed geospatial processing.
- Experience with raster/vector tiling, remote sensing, or 3D geospatial datasets.
- Exposure to C#/.NET environments.
Work on high-impact geospatial products, combining advanced GIS expertise, modern software engineering, and AI-assisted development.
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