Job opening - Big Data Engineer/Architect at Urban Mapping, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Do you get excited by statistical reports? Do you race to the appendix to consult methodology/metadata to understand the claim? Does the idea of pouring over government toxicology statistics and making them easily understood excite you? When confronted with thousands of data sources that explain the same general phenomena, do you relentlessly think about how to normalize data?

Urban Mapping seeks an intellectually curious and eager candidate for Big Data Engineer/Architect at the manager level. In this role, you will support software engineering and product management to go from ‘raw to refined’ with our data products and support functionality to enhance Mapfluence, Urban Mapping’s web mapping service. If you have a background in information science, statistics, demography or another technical discipline with a splattering of liberal arts, do we have the opportunity for you!

Responsibilities

Development new data products, including sourcing, collection techniques/process, ETL, metadata/schema development, maintenance techniques (collectively “raw to refined”)

Work with customers and partners to identify, develop and source custom data.

Collaborate with Product Management to support new releases of data catalog, API capabilities, interface design

Manage outside vendors as appropriate

 Qualifications

• 2-5 years professional experience


• BA/BS preferred in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or equivalent experience


• Excellent written and oral and visual communication skills


• Strong analytical and critical reasoning skills.


• Technical proficiency in web technologies (eg, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Java, C++, CSS, SQL, RDBMS)


• Experience develo! ping large-scale taxonomy/metadata classification systems
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Ideal candidates will also possess the following:

• Experience with Big Data tools/frameworks, including NoSQL


• UI/UX development including interaction design and wireframing


• Visual design competency in methods and tools


• Exposure to process management principles, such as TQM, Six Sigma and statistical process control

Urban Mapping provides geospatial web and data services to simplify the development and deployment of online mapping and data visualization applications. Mapfluence service offers a solid technical infrastructure for mapping, custom base maps and the industry’s most comprehensive on-demand data catalog. Since 2006, leading interactive publishers like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft and leading enterprises like CoStar Group, Tableau Software and CoreLogic have utilized Urban Mapping’s geospatial data and technology. For more information, please visi! t www.urbanmapping.com.

This position pays a competitive base salary + benefits, including paid vacation, health insurance, stock options, training/education, centrally located in San Francisco’s Financial District, two blocks from BART, regular company outings, food & fun, reasonable hours, no in-office foosball table or game console. We are a startup in name only–with over six years of operating experience, only seed financing and profitability, Urban Mapping isn’t the typical Silicon Valley story, but we’re passionate about what we do and strive for excellence in our work.

Please send your resume along with a note of introduction to talent@urbanmapping.com and indicate “DATA ARCH” in the subject line. Referrals/non-templated notes of interest are welcome.

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