Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Geospatial Solutions Engineer  to join our team.  

This is an on-site, located in Huntsville, Alabama position.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Geospatial Solutions Engineer who will work closely with our technical lead and systems integration team. This role will provide system management support of an ArcGIS Enterprise that entails troubleshooting Esri application deployment and implementing IT solutions to provide stability of the systems. In addition, design and develop tools and applications that leverage the ArcGIS REST and Python API allowing automation of a variety of GIS tasks such as automating map production, publishing web services, updating data sources across different databases, web map generation, and more. This individual will support critical automation tasks to help manage deployments, metrics, user access and other tasks. Working within an Agile based process, the person in this role will be responsible for developing data driven solutions for incident operations and national security events using web application and mobile applications such as Esri Dashboard, Web App Builder (WAB), Survey 123, Field Maps, and Story Maps. Being a fast tempo environment, it requires high levels of engagement, positive attitude, and being a problem solver.

We are committed to the success of our customers and providing support to defend the United State of America.  Joining our highly collaborative and vibrant team, you will leverage your problem-solving skills and creativity in supporting multiple project teams within the Department of Justice.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Troubleshoot client issues related to ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise application deployment and system architecture
• Solve complex problems with application design, development, and user experiences 
• Envision, design, and develop cloud-based web applications and data management strategies for large-scale deployment and management in the Homeland Security community 
• Rapidly prototype cloud-based web applications to showcase new concepts and ideas 
• Quickly convert customer ideas to minimum-viable-products using the entire ArcGIS suite of tools 
• In-depth experience leveraging ArcGIS Dashboard, Insights, S123, Field Maps, Experience Builder (ExB) and/or Web Application Builder (WAB)
• Write technical design specifications and support documentation 
• Suggests new technologies and approaches, often demonstrating and championing their use 
• Estimate the duration and level of effort of development tasks through collaboration with SME and leads 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in geospatial, computer science, earth sciences, IT focused discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years geospatial solution engineering experience 
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to pass a polygraph is required
• Ability to troubleshoot client issues related to Esri ArcGIS Enterprise application deployment and system architecture
• Understanding of ArcGIS from an IT context (hardware, storage, security, networking, web services, virtualization, cloud computing)
• Experience deploying, upgrading, and/or administrating an ArcGIS Enterprise
• Experience Operating and Maintaining a multi-machine or single machine ArcGIS Enterprise
• Experience managing the integration of data services and ingests between record keeping systems and GIS
• Experience with geodatabases and underlying DBMS technology
• Experience integrating software solutions
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and environments, such as Microsoft Azure or AWS (GovCloud)
• Experience managing the implementation and documentation of network security requirements
• Motivated, highly engaging, and a problem solver

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.