Scientific Programmer Job at Dewberry, Fairfax, VA

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  • Dewberry
  • Fairfax, VA

Job Description

Job Description:

Dewberry ?is currently seeking a? Scientific Programmer ? to join?our Resilience Solutions Group in our ? Fairfax, VA ? offic e (note: a lternate offices and remote locations may be considered on a case-by-case basis ) . The role will support federal, state, and local government clients to help them better understand, prepare, and respond to natural disasters, climate change, and sea level rise .

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether youre an experienced professional or a new graduate, youll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call Dewberry at Work, that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century .

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

You will design, write, and maintain semi-automated routines and related documentation and reports for data analysis , data engineering, data management, and mass processing , primarily in the context of hydrologic & hydraulic (H&H) flood modeling and related risk analysis of natural hazards . You will gather requirements, design , and write components of our backend cloud computing stack, leveraging Python, Postgres (SQL), Go, and Docker on AWS infrastructure ( S3, EC2, Batch, Lambda, RDS ) .

The role fit s into an existing team of passionate developers and earth science modelers with backgrounds in hydrology, fluid dynamics, meteorology, computer science, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental science , civil engineering, oceanography, and statistics . Projects are version-controlled in Git (GitHub). Some projects involve publicly accessible websites and/or open-source codebases. Most projects involve geospatial data (vector and raster).

Recent federal and state clients include:

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) HQ and Regions
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
  • Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (VADCR)
  • Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
  • Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ)
  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NY S DEC)
  • New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA)
  • Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
  • Texas General Land Office (GLO)
  • National Academies of Sciences (NAS)

Required Skills & Required Experience:

Required Skills & Experience

  • 3-8 years of experience in developing tools , processes, and workflows related to scien tific analysis , with preference for expertise in GIS, hydrology, hydraulics, fluid dynamics, climate change, meteorology, hydrometeorology , statistics, or other earth sciences
  • Bachelor's d egree in computer science, civil engineering, environmental engineering, water resources engineering , statistics, meteorology, climate science, mathematics, or related technical discipline
  • Proficiency in Python :
  • O pen GIS libraries: geopandas , rasterio , shapely, fiona , OGR2OGR, GDAL, etc
  • O pen mathematics & statistics libraries : numpy , xarray , scipy , etc
  • Experience handling large amounts of data efficiently (compression, spatial indexing, tiling, etc )
  • Proficiency in Git
  • Proficiency in d esktop GIS (QGIS, ArcGIS)

Job Tags

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