Description

As a geomatician, you will contribute to the development, management, and improvement of the geodata infrastructure and services of the police.

Work Environment

The Federal Police is currently undergoing a digital transformation by securely implementing various tools and technologies to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Job Description

Within the framework of developing the cartographic infrastructure within the police (GDI: Geographical Data Infrastructure), you will collect, process, and integrate spatial base data into a geographic database. This geo-information must then be made available to users via WMTS, geowebservices (geocoder, reverse geocoding, routing, etc.), APIs, or geographic portals.

For this, you will work in a multidisciplinary team consisting of a functional analyst, an architect/analyst, and a developer, where together with another colleague you will take on the role of geomatician. Your main tasks within this team are as follows:

As a GEO developer (60% to 70% of your time) you closely follow all changes and developments regarding ICT and/or geography in order to act as a specialist.

More specifically, you will:

• develop new functionalities or expand existing ones based on user needs;
• maintain the geo-architecture according to the standards that best match the needs and retain a certain flexibility to easily integrate new products;
• create technical documentation for newly developed functionalities;
• manage the downloading of data from various providers and monitor the processing and distribution of the data;
• determine the process for collecting, storing, and processing geographic data from our partners (Regions, IGN, etc.) and other possible sources (internet: OSM, etc.);
• determine the integration process, handling, and keeping up-to-date of geographic databases (PostgreSQL with the POSTGIS extension);
• manage various geographic tools (GDAL, Tiling Engine, Styling and configuration of TileMill tiles, Geo-catalog, GeoNetwork, GeoServer, etc.);
• coordinate teamwork;
• provide technical support to maintain the best results and a pleasant working environment.

Profile Description

• You have a master’s degree (e.g., bio-engineer or geography) or equivalent through experience, provided you have the specific knowledge described below.
• Knowledge of Python (for the use of geofunctionalities), PHP & JavaScript, and Web Server (Apache).
• Thorough knowledge of geographic information systems (such as ArcGis, QGis) and willingness to expand this knowledge.
• Experience with integrating, creating, and updating geographic databases (a good knowledge of PostgreSQL with the PostGis extension and of SQL is required).
• Experience in data processing, particularly in merging data from different files.
• Inventorying, acquiring, and collecting geographic data from partners (Regions, NGI, etc.) or other available sources (OSM, etc.).
• Experience in developing IT solutions (GIS architecture, application development and configuration) is an asset.
• Experience with source code versioning (GIT repositories).
• Flexible and able to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience in the development and management of geomatics tools (e.g.: import engine GDAL, Tiling engine, styling and configuration of TileMill tiles, Geo-catalog engine GeoNetwork, GeoServer, Mapnik, etc.).
• Knowledge of geocoding is an asset.
• Familiarity with a service-oriented architecture – SOA (API, webservices, etc.).
• Preferably bilingual (French, Dutch) or, if not, sufficient passive knowledge of a second national language to participate in meetings with other specialists and user representatives without problems.
• Knowledge of technical English is an asset.
• Knowledge of the following elements is also an asset:
• VueJS
• Leaflet
• GeoJSON
• Swagger