GIS Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Extreme Event Solutions

Company Description

AIR Worldwide (AIR), a Verisk business, provides risk modeling solutions that make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to extreme events. In 1987, AIR Worldwide founded the catastrophe modeling industry and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber attacks, globally. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate, and government clients rely on AIR’s advanced science, software, and consulting services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities, site-specific engineering analyses, and agricultural risk management. AIR Worldwide, is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about AIR, please visit us at: www.air-worldwide.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!

With a history of impressive growth, an innovative culture, and offering industry-leading solutions, Verisk Analytics is an amazing place to work and make a difference. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Verisk to its World’s Best Employers list and, in 2017, to its World’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third consecutive year. We also earned the Great Place to Work® Certification for the third consecutive year in recognition of our outstanding workplace culture.

Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk draws on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations integrated into customer workflows. We’ve been delivering predictive analytics and decision support solutions to our customers for nearly 50 years, helping them protect people, property, and financial assets. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

At Verisk, you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create a positive and lasting impact on the business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our business will be heard. As key contributors to our success, our team members enjoy working in a business-casual, collaborative environment that offers state-of-the-art resources, advanced technologies, and an excellent benefits package.

Job Description

  • Responsible for assisting in preparation of various GIS and Remote Sensing related components for development of AIR Models.
  • Should be strong in GIS and Remote Sensing concepts (Digitization/editing, Geo-referencing, Reformatting, Map-projections, Soil Type Classification, Image Resampling techniques, Vector2 Raster conversions, Topology checking, Cartography, Geodatabases, Image Classification/Analysis, Processing Satellite/Aerial/LiDAR datasets etc.
  • Updating/Maintenance of Physical Properties such as Flood zones/Base Flood Elevation/Storm Surge, Geology/Soil, Landslide/Liquefaction, Geocoding/Reverse Geocoding, Flood defense Structure (Levees) delineation, Territory-ZIP Mapping, Pin/Post Code Mapping, Industry Exposure data generation (building & Infrastructure footprints), Elevation and Land use & Land cover extractions, Raster Spatial Analysis.
  • Generation of base data layers for Flood Models and Flood Hazard maps like Flow lines, catchments, levees etc. related to Hydrography.
  • Should be responsible for Elevation, Land Use/ Land Cover, Soil data collection and generation. Raster ASTER/SRTM/AW3D/CARTOSAT-DTM/DEM corrections and formatting.

Qualifications

Educational Qualification:

B Tech or M Tech or M.Sc. (in Geo-Informatics/Geography/Remote Sensing & GIS) or Spatial Technologies

Total Experience: 0-3 years

Must-Have skills:

a.     Experience in software of ARCGIS 10.x/ArcGIS Pro/ERDAS/ENVI/IDRISI, QGIS and Google Earth

b.     Must have working knowledge in ArcGIS Extensions: Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Image Analyst, Arc Hydro, GEO HEC-RAS, and Network Analyst.

c.     Good knowledge on Hydrology and Hydraulic concepts

d.     Ensuring effective measures for the project to be completed with good quality and in time

e.     Design, develop, maintaining GIS databases, and spatial analysis.

f.      Excellent communication skills in project documentation/ technical presentations.

g.     Possess a positive attitude and independently work.

 

Nice-To-Have:

a.     Automation of routine manipulative/analytical tasking using scripts (Model Builder/ ArcPY/Arc Objects/R/MATLAB and Python).

b.     Knowledge in SQL server

c.     Good mathematical & statistical background

d.     Experience in Risk Management projects

e.     LiDAR data processing

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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