Senior Geospatial Analyst - Offroad
Missoula, MTHybrid8+ YOE
Summary
Senior Geospatial Analyst builds, maintains, and validates Offroad datasets and pipelines, leads complex spatial analysis, and integrates multi-source data using AI tools. Requires 8+ years experience, expert QGIS/Python/SQL skills, and familiarity with offroad datasets.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Senior Geospatial Analyst supporting the Offroad vertical, owning the technical approach, sequencing, and delivery of geospatial work.
- Execute geospatial work supporting connected content initiatives by implementing datasets and workflows.
- Support content trust initiatives through audits, refreshes, and cleanup of high-impact Offroad datasets.
- Leverage and improve geospatial pipelines for reliable data delivery.
- Lead complex geospatial processing and analysis including multi-source data integration, conflation, and large-scale QA/QC.
- Use Claude Code and other AI tools to generate, optimize, and automate geospatial workflows.
- Identify data quality risks and surface recommendations.
- Analyze data, create dashboards, and monitor data health metrics.
- Research and evaluate geospatial data sources.
- Partner with engineers to ensure performant, maintainable solutions.
- Own end-to-end execution of initiatives using Git and collaborative workflows.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other analysts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Geospatial, Geospatial Engineering, Computer Science, Hydrology, Geography, or related field (or equivalent).
- 8+ years of geospatial industry experience in dataset sourcing, development, transformation, and deployment.
- Expert-level proficiency in QGIS and advanced geoprocessing.
- Expert with SQL, cloud-based analytical databases (BigQuery), PostGIS, spatial indexing, and performance optimization.
- Strong Python skills including GDAL, geopandas, PyQGIS, and automation frameworks.
- Experience with complex spatial data pipelines, Git, and collaborative workflows.
- Proven use of Claude Code or AI coding assistants for scripts and automation.
- Familiarity with Offroad-relevant datasets (trail networks, road conditions, terrain, land ownership).
- Ability to work autonomously on complex projects and communicate technically to non-technical partners.
Nice-to-Haves
- Master's degree in related field.
- Experience with graph-based data systems, GeoParquet, micro-services, Airflow, Docker.
- Interest in off-road recreation.
Skills
QGISSQLPythonGDALgeopandasPyQGISPostGISBigQueryGitClaude Code