Geoprocessing Product Engineer II- Documentation Writer
Geoprocessing Product Engineer II- Documentation Writer
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Overview
Join the geoprocessing development team as we enhance and maintain a large and growing suite of 2000 geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS. Geoprocessing provides powerful spatial analysis and data management capabilities used by thousands of organizations around the world to analyze manage and share their data.
Product engineers are software experts and advocates for the Esri user community within the development team. As a geoprocessing product engineer you will coordinate requirements from the user community enter enhancement requests and bug reports and help decide team priorities. You will collaborate with developers and other product engineers to design and build user-friendly and performant software that produces correct results (or helpful errors).
Responsibilities
- Design test and document geoprocessing tools and workflows
- Troubleshoot software issues related to geoprocessing tools
- Write automated test cases in Python
- Analyze test results to determine pass/fail status reporting results in a timely and consistent manner
- Author clear and concise help topics that allow users to understand complex concepts
- Assist in managing editing and reviewing technical documentation
- Create compelling blogs videos tutorials or samples that illustrate geoprocessing capabilities
Requirements
- Knowledge of the geoprocessing and analysis capabilities in ArcGIS expressed through a portfolio website code repo or other description of related work and projects
- Experience communicating complex technical information to diverse audiences in written and verbal form
- 2 years of professional experience using Python
- Ability to confidently present ArcGIS functionality in-person and online to groups of colleagues or the user community
- Ability to think critically about alternative approaches and select the best one
- Capacity to multitask in a fast-paced agile software development environment
- Bachelors in GIS or Computer Science
Recommended Qualifications
- Experience with documentation management systems (DITA or docs-as-code)
- Experience using GitHub or other software for version management
- Project management knowledge or experience
- Masters in GIS or a related field
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Employment Type
Full Time
