GIS Specialist-City Mapping Expert

Tellgraph

Role Objective

The team is working to keep Maps Data up to date and representative of developments in the real world. They work on issues submitted by Maps end-users, or check the user query location results submitted through Web Search or Maps gui.

City mapping expert.

GIS Specialist will be responsible for improving city transit data and offering country-specific experience in high impact research. It will be the duty of GIS Expert to build and maintain transit data sources and to create actual data in the city they work.

Role & Responsibilities as GIS Expert 

* To accomplish project goals, collaborate with internal stakeholder teams and external organizations.

* Establish transit data modeling policies at the city level, focused on business requirements and local regulations.

* Identify transit user expectations, broken critical user journeys, data gaps and provide insights to the product.

* Validate quality of new and updated data in the data management platform.

* Make necessary edits for all transit data types.

* Field escalations of complex or edge-case data issues from internal teams and resolve appropriately including creating bugs for external teams.

* Assist Program Managers to communicate with the partner/provider about required data fixes or inform about problematic data areas.

* Conduct in city field research to determine the ground truth of transit issues and user problems.

* Develop outages and alerts capabilities in their assigned city.

* Manage city specific data pipelines through the transit data management platform, including updating pipelines using basic programming skills.

Experience / Skills

Requirements

"For a leading tech company"/ "Located in Ankara or Istanbul"

 1 year - 3 years of experience

 Graduate or equivalent experience

 Good Communication skills in English and native local language

 Technological savviness - with basic programing skills (java, C#, C++ and Python).   

Proficiency in GIS mapping tools and SME with deep knowledge of the city /country's transit/traffic network .

 Knowledge of traffic laws, landmarks, political modeling and key mapping features of   the city/country

 Comfortable with a rapidly-changing environment

Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail