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United States

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WHO WE ARE

The mission of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends. As a science-based organization, we develop innovative, on-the-ground solutions to the world's toughest environmental challenges so that people and nature can thrive. Our work is guided by our values, which include a commitment to diversity{rel="nofollow"} and respect for people, communities, and cultures. From a rewarding mission to career development and flexible schedules, there are many reasons to love life #insideTNC. Want to know more? Check out our TNC Talent playlist on YouTube{rel="nofollow"} to hear stories from staff or visit Glassdoor{rel="nofollow"}.

One of TNC's primary goals is to cultivate an inclusive work environment so that employees around the globe have a sense of belonging and feel that their unique contributions are valued. We know we'll only achieve our mission by hiring and engaging a diverse staff that reflects the communities in which we work. Recognizing that people bring talent and skills that have been developed outside the scope of a job, we take a holistic approach to recruitment that considers life experience in addition to the professional requirements listed in our postings. Please apply - we'd love to hear from you. To quote a popular saying at TNC, "you'll join for the mission, and you'll stay for the people."

WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER

The Geospatial Data Engineer is a critical Conservation & Geospatial Systems Team (C&GST) member in TNC's Information Technology (IT) department. This position reports to the Associate Director of Geospatial Services and works closely with other Conservation & Geospatial Systems functions to serve TNC's global community of scientists, conservationists, and GIS analysts and managers by administering modern geospatial data stores, including data lake architecture and Enterprise geodatabases, and the pipelines necessary for the ingestion, transformation, and extraction of geospatial data products within TNC's existing cloud-based systems. The Geospatial Data Engineer works closely with other data-oriented roles on the team, including administrators, scientists, practitioners, and cloud-computing and architecture teams.

This position is central to geospatial data management, science, conservation, and technology at TNC. The Geospatial Data Engineer contributes to developing and delivering globally accessible and scalable geospatial data management technologies by creating data pipelines and workflows to support various conservation projects and programs. This includes assisting in developing a geospatial data governance framework to ensure conservation science and geospatial data access, use, and sharing. The person in this new position will collaborate with others on the vision and implementation of a new conservation science data lake to enhance our authoritative geospatial conservation science data offerings across our global organization and externally with our important partners. This individual will work closely with the Geospatial Operations Team in C&GST and report to the Geospatial Services team to support over 2,000 geospatial practitioners across a 7,000-person global organization.

The Geospatial Data Engineer collaborates across IT teams to develop data transformation and access pipelines following cloud best practices as a foundational component of contributing to the design of a data lake and other geospatial-related cloud/SaaS platforms that the C&GST maintains in support of a broad body of geospatial work at TNC. The Geos