GIS Data Specialist

Who We Are

Build. Scale. Sustain.

PALO IT is a global technology consultancy that crafts tech as a force for good. We design, develop, and scale digital and sustainable products and services to unlock value across the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We’re proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion and a B Corp-certified company.

• Small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally (5 continents, 18 offices, +650 experts from +50 nationalities)

• Robust and resilient (100% independent and 0 debt)

• Entrepreneurs and passionate experts: We invest in what we believe in and operate with collective intelligence

• Positive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence

About Gen-e2

AI-First Product Engineering — Reinvented

Gen-e2 is our revolutionary approach to product delivery. While most teams use AI to support traditional workflows, we’ve redefined the entire SDLC around AI. Gen-e2 integrates AI-native processes, tooling, and architecture to boost quality, speed, and sustainability.

• 95% of the product (code, documentation, infra, tests, even UI) is AI-generated

• All work is contextualized in a single product repository for consistent generation quality

• Rules, templates, and prompt libraries ensure scalable, secure, and enterprise-grade output

• Gen-e2 delivers end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional models

Your Role

As a GIS Data Specialist, you will help develop and optimize GIS mapping solutions, with a strong focus on speeding up GIS applications and ensuring robust GIS data management across the lifecycle (ingestion, validation, storage, publishing, and consumption).

You will:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain GIS web maps and mapping applications (e.g., interactive layers, symbology, filters, search, and spatial analysis features).
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and speed up GIS applications (rendering, layer loading, spatial queries, tiling strategies, caching, API performance, network payload, and client-side optimization).
• Manage end-to-end geospatial data workflows: data ingestion, cleaning, transformation, QA/QC, versioning, metadata, and documentation.
• Design and maintain spatial data stores (e.g., PostGIS / enterprise geodatabases) and optimize spatial indexing and query performance.
• Publish and maintain geospatial services (feature services, map services, tiles/Vector tiles) with best practices for reliability, scalability, and security.
• Implement automation for repetitive GIS/data tasks (ETL pipelines, validation scripts, scheduled jobs), leveraging AI-assisted development practices where relevant.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to translate business needs into usable map experiences and maintain high-quality geospatial outputs.
• Ensure data governance, access controls, and compliance aligned with enterprise and client requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement: better standards, reusable components, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Who You Are

• Proven experience working with GIS data and mapping applications, including performance considerations for real-world use.
• Strong understanding of geospatial concepts: projections, coordinate systems, spatial joins, topology, geocoding, raster/vector fundamentals.
• Comfortable with GIS data management (data modeling, QA/QC, metadata, versioning, lineage, and publishing).
• Solid skills in SQL and spatial querying; experience optimizing queries and indexes is a plus.
• Experience with at least some of the following tools/technologies (or equivalent):
  • GIS: ArcGIS (Online/Enterprise), QGIS
  • Spatial data: PostGIS, GeoPackage, enterprise geodatabases
  • Web mapping: Leaflet, OpenLayers, Mapbox (or similar)
  • Geo tooling: GDAL/OGR, FME (nice to have)
  • Scripting: Python (preferred) and/or JavaScript
• You can communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining trade-offs and proposing pragmatic solutions.
• You’re comfortable working in English with international teams (spoken and written).

More About PALO IT

We’re eager to adapt to change, learn from experience and move to meet our planet’s urgent needs. We are continuously taking action to:

• Become a climate net-zero company

• Deliver projects with a positive impact

• Train 100% of our workforce on sustainability and impact

• Achieve B Corp certification in all global offices

• Continuously measure and improve employee happiness

Our clients are among the world’s most successful companies. We innovate with both Fortune 1000s and startups who aim to make a difference.

What We Offer

• Stimulating projects and environments

• International career mobility

• Internal R&D labs and AI-first tools

• Personalized training and certifications

• Entrepreneurial spirit and creative freedom

• Knowledge-sharing and PALOCast

• Flexibility, autonomy, and purpose-driven teams

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