Principal Geospatial Data Scientist

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Intro paragraph about MITRE: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future." That could be "About the role" or maybe "About MITRE". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put the introductory description under About the role. - Department Summary: MITRE’s Complex Systems Department (L644) is looking for qualified applicants to bring their geospatial, machine learning, advanced analytics, and applied research skills to bear on solving problems of critical national importance. MITRE’s diverse work program provides opportunities to apply your expertise and creative thinking in challenging domains such as healthcare, transportation, and national security. Employees may also participate in MITRE’s internal research and development program, which provides funding for innovative applied research that addresses our sponsors’ hardest problems. Our department is an interdisciplinary department that thrives on having a large toolbox to support data- and model-driven decision making. We value people who can bring diverse and inclusive perspectives. Our department works to solve modeling and analytic problems in the public interest, in partnership with the government. We also actively conduct independent research in areas of interest to our government partners. Our department is partnering with the Geospatial Intelligence Department (N971) who is seeking a Principal Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Engineer to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) platform. EGIS establishes the Unified Geographic Information System (GIS) Platform-as-a-Service Platform creation of a Kubernetes-based PaaS to consolidate NGA's disparate GIS technologies into a single, scalable ArcGIS Enterprise environment, to reduce technical diversity. The ideal candidate is intimately familiar with ArcGIS Enterprise Stack, a self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of an integrated team. They will support efforts to reduce duplicative software technologies and eliminate government-sourced and government custom-developed applications and capabilities. They will provide trusted agent technical expertise in multi-program integration and consolidation into the unified EGIS platform. The role requires the ability to clearly document system capabilities and produce defensible, data-driven assessments that demonstrate the value of modernization investments. This position requires frequent sponsor interaction and close coordination with multiple sponsors, and a team of multi-disciplined engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Requires active TS/SCI with CI Poly, and ability to work on-site at sponsor site (Springfield, VA). This is more about role details; could go under About the role or Responsibilities. We'll decide. - Roles & Responsibilities: The successful candidate for this position is a geospatial data scientist who combines a solid theoretical and technical background with the ability to formulate problems, develop and evaluate solutions, and communicate results. Familiarity with advanced geospatial data science, modeling, and analysis techniques and methods (e.g., supervised and unsupervised machine learning, GeoAI, Geosimulation, spatiotemporal graphs) is a plus. Candidates should have a strong understanding of how to engineer spatial solutions for geospatial systems and architecture in both traditional and cloud computing environments. Lifelong learning and keeping up with the latest research and technologies is an essential part of working in this field. Roles and responsibilities include: Support the development of geospatial data science, modeling, analysis, visualization, and engineering deliverables for sponsor projects and programs, internal research and development, and corporate strategic initiatives. Remain current on open-source, industry, academia, and US Government techniques and tools for geospatial data science, modeling, analysis, visualization, and engineering. Apply a variety of spatial data science techniques to tackle customer challenges to include geospatial statistics, spatial optimization, spatial pattern analysis, geospatial artificial intelligence, spatial autocorrelation, activity-based intelligence, imagery analysis, remote sensing, and geospatial data visualization approaches. Build and test geospatial prototypes in MITRE, government, and commercial cloud environments. That's responsibilities. - Basic Qualifications: Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8 years of experience with a master’s degree, or a PhD with 5 years of relevant hands-on experience using Geospatial Information Science techniques. Applied experience with common GIS tools, developing geospatial workflows, maps, charts and visualizations. Familiarity with geospatial data architectures and spatial database design and management, as well as containerization concepts. Experience leading technical development across multi-disciplinary teams. Experience using ArcGIS and Esri capabilities for analysis. Applied experience in GIS enterprise requirements management Experience leading or conducting research. Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with CI polygraph U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance. This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site. - Preferred Qualifications: Advanced degree in Geospatial Data Science, Geospatial Intelligence, Geographic Information Systems, GeoInformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical discipline. Experience with data architecture containerization concepts, e.g. Docker or Kubernetes. Applied experience in architecting, resourcing, deploying, and administering a GID enterprise including physical and virtual machines, cloud-based components, and remote application delivery serving hundreds of users. Experience with applying spatial modeling and analysis techniques to the atmospheric, climate, marine, oceanic, hydrologic, geomorphologic, critical infrastructure, transportation, network, telemetry, or terrain domains. Applied experience maintaining multiple enterprise relations database management systems hosted in MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle or similar. - Salary compensation range and midpoint: $171,000 - $213,500 - $256,000 - Annual Work Location Type: Onsite - Benefits: "Benefits information may be found here." That's not specific content; it's a link placeholder. According to rules: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It says "Benefits information may be found here." That's not stating benefits; it's a reference. Likely we should not include Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. However earlier they mentioned "competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." That's in the intro paragraph. That is a mention of benefits but vague. The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The phrase "competitive benefits" is vague but still states that there are benefits. However it's not specific. Might be considered filler? The rule says to avoid filler/placeholder text like "competitive benefits" maybe? Not sure. Safer to not create Benefits section unless there is explicit list. We'll omit Benefits. - Pay: we have salary range. So include Pay section with that info. - Schedule: we have "This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site" and "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". Also earlier: "ability to work on-site at sponsor site (Springfield, VA)". So we can include Schedule/Work location info. The heading Schedule is allowed. We'll include schedule details: Onsite, minimum 4 days per week, sponsor site Springfield, VA. - Requirements vs Qualifications: The instruction includes both Requirements and Qualifications headings. We need to decide what goes where. Typically Requirements = basic qualifications (must-haves). Qualifications = preferred qualifications. We'll put Basic Qualifications under Requirements, and Preferred Qualifications under Qualifications. Also Skills could be separate: maybe list skills like ArcGIS Enterprise Stack, geospatial data science, machine learning, etc. But we already have many skill mentions in responsibilities and qualifications. Could create a Skills section summarizing key technical skills: ArcGIS Enterprise, GIS tools, spatial data science, machine learning, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), database management (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle), etc. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can list them as bullet points from the text. That's okay as we are preserving info. We'll create a Skills section with bullet list of specific skills/tools mentioned. - About the role: combine introductory paragraph and department summary maybe. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc. We must output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences. Let's craft. Structure:

About the role

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

MITRE’s Complex Systems Department (L644) is seeking applicants with geospatial, machine learning, advanced analytics, and applied research skills to solve problems of critical national importance. The department offers opportunities to apply expertise in healthcare, transportation, and national security, and participates in internal R&D funding for innovative applied research. It is an interdisciplinary team that values diverse perspectives, works on modeling and analytic problems in the public interest with government partners, and conducts independent research of interest to sponsors. The department is partnering with the Geospatial Intelligence Department (N971) for a Principal Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Engineer role supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) platform. EGIS aims to create a Kubernetes‑based Platform‑as‑a‑Service that consolidates NGA’s disparate GIS technologies into a single, scalable ArcGIS Enterprise environment, reducing technical diversity. The ideal candidate is intimately familiar with the ArcGIS Enterprise Stack, a self‑starter able to work independently and within an integrated team, will help eliminate duplicative software and government‑custom applications, provide trusted agent technical expertise for multi‑program integration into EGIS, document system capabilities, produce data‑driven assessments of modernization value, and interact frequently with sponsors and multidisciplinary teams at the sponsor site in Springfield, VA. An active TS/SCI with CI polygraph clearance is required.

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Responsibilities

• Support the development of geospatial data science, modeling, analysis, visualization, and engineering deliverables for sponsor projects, programs, internal research and development, and corporate strategic initiatives.
• Remain current on open‑source, industry, academia, and U.S. Government techniques and tools for geospatial data science, modeling, analysis, visualization, and engineering.
• Apply a variety of spatial data science