GIS Data Manager (Geodatabase Administration and Quality Assurance) for NATO with security clearance

An international geospatial team needs a data manager who can be trusted with thewhole estate: the geodatabases, the ingestion pipelines, the quality of what comes out the otherend, and the cloud and on-premises services that publish it. This is an on-site assignment inThe Hague, Netherlands. ### What you will do * Maintain, organise and manage geospatial datasets and their metadata, and develop thegeodatabases and spatial repositories they live in. * Run ingestion, transformation, validation and quality assurance — and keep spatial dataintegrity, consistency and version control intact. * Coordinate backups and archival, and keep documentation current for datasets, workflows andsystem configuration. * Support geospatial environments in the cloud and on-premises: deployment, maintenance,troubleshooting, obsolescence management and secure operation alongside the GIS IT team. * Perform spatial analysis — queries, overlays, buffering, proximity analysis, summarisation —and produce maps and visualisations that people actually make decisions on. * Prepare data for modelling and reporting, and generate the standard GIS products. * Recommend improvements to workflows and data management practice, and work shoulder toshoulder with analysts, developers and engineers. ### What you bring * A degree in geospatial sciences or a related field with two years of relevant experience —or roughly six years of progressive expertise in this work in place of the degree. * At least three years in geospatial data management, and three or more on the ESRI Enterprisesuite across desktop and server. * Five years or more with ArcGIS Pro, including data editing, data management and mosaicdatasets. * Expert-level command of vector and raster manipulation, common raster formats and theirtrade-offs, GIS database management and accuracy assessment of high-resolution products. * A solid grip on the fundamentals — data types, coordinate systems, projections, metadata —plus quality assurance and control practice. * Expert Excel, familiarity with backup strategies and data transfer protocols, stronganalytical and communication skills, fluent business English. * *Desirable:* ArcGIS Toolbox and ArcPy tool development; ArcGIS Server or Image Serverfor publishing and caching OGC services such as WMS and WMTS; tile creation against standardtiling schemas; enterprise geodatabase design; prior work in an international environment withboth military and civilian elements. ### Why it is worth a conversation You would join an established international team of geospatial specialists working torecognised standards, with the autonomy to improve how the data estate is run rather than simplymaintain it.