Geospatial Analyst

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

8d•$82,550 - $149,225

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Geospatial Analyst to be part of a team located in Northern Virginia. This position requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph. The Geospatial Analyst will be part of an integrated team made up of both Leidos and government staff. The successful candidate will have strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team. The Geospatial Analyst position will support cartographic production efforts and ArcGIS Online portal map creation for our government customer. If you are passionate about cartography, geospatial intelligence, and leveraging GIS technologies to tell powerful visual stories — this is an opportunity to make a real difference. What You’ll Do As a key member of an integrated contractor–government team, you will: Lead and execute custom mapping requests in both high-quality print and interactive web formats, managing multiple geospatial projects under minimal supervision, working with customers to define project requirements and provide advice on processes and procedures for optimal visualization. Design and produce thematic and reference maps supporting finished intelligence products, briefings, and publications Develop and manage ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS map products and web applications Collaborate directly with customers to define requirements and recommend optimal visualization strategies Manage multiple geospatial projects with minimal supervision Contribute to complex intelligence analysis through high-impact cartographic production Conduct open-source data collection and support web-based ESRI applications Partner with development teams to enhance geospatial capabilities Your work will directly contribute to national-level intelligence efforts — where accuracy, clarity, and visual insight matter.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience in Geography, GIS, Cartography, Computer Science, or related field with formal GIS training, or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
5+ years of professional geospatial experience
Advanced expertise in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro
Strong knowledge of geodatabases, including vector and raster data management
Experience working with shapefiles and file geodatabases
Proficiency with coordinate systems, map projections, and datums
Strong foundation in cartographic principles, theory, and visualization best practices
Experience with ESRI web platforms including Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online, and Web Application development
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice To Haves

Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat)
Experience with Python or JavaScript for web scraping and data extraction
Understanding of HTML/CSS, REST APIs, and scripting tools (e.g., requests, urllib)
Experience parsing HTML and JSON data
Familiarity with QGIS
Ability to develop reusable, efficient scripts to support automated web data collection
Experience leveraging public APIs for open-source research

Responsibilities

Lead and execute custom mapping requests in both high-quality print and interactive web formats, managing multiple geospatial projects under minimal supervision, working with customers to define project requirements and provide advice on processes and procedures for optimal visualization.
Design and produce thematic and reference maps supporting finished intelligence products, briefings, and publications
Develop and manage ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS map products and web applications
Collaborate directly with customers to define requirements and recommend optimal visualization strategies
Manage multiple geospatial projects with minimal supervision
Contribute to complex intelligence analysis through high-impact cartographic production
Conduct open-source data collection and support web-based ESRI applications
Partner with development teams to enhance geospatial capabilities