Sr. Principal Product Engineer – Maritime Program Coordinator

Overview

Use your passion for software development and ArcGIS to put your stamp on the world’s leading GIS software, by becoming a product engineer on the software development team focused on advancing maritime and ENC support across ArcGIS products. 

In this role, you will work closely with product management to refine and prioritize requirements, articulate user workflows, and act as a program coordinator with the development teams to facilitate building support for maritime standards across products. You will help to test and prototype during implementation and communicate with internal stakeholders throughout the process.

If you have a passion for leading and are motivated to make a real impact on the ArcGIS system, join us!

Responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge of relevant maritime standards and use from a holistic customer-centric perspective
• Act as a customer advocate by passionately articulating prioritized use cases to the product development teams
• Coordinate and drive design and development efforts across product teams to ensure consistent and complete implementation
• Lead and facilitate meetings with product and software engineers
• Create prototypes to test and validate software and provide feedback to the product teams throughout the software development cycle
• Ensure transparency by communicating development progress regularly with product management and stakeholders
• Work with technical writers to create consistent documentation about new features across products
• Share new features with customers via blog posts, learn lessons, and technical workshops

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience with maritime standards, in particular ENC
• Experience using ArcGIS software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online)
• Experience and ability to empathize with and articulate ArcGIS customer needs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including in a leadership or influencer role
• Strong coordination and collaboration skills, including use of project management tools
• Ability to understand and clearly express connections between larger customer goals and software features 
• Self-starter with effective time management and organizational skills
• Experience with one or more of the following platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS
• Bachelor’s in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields

Recommended Qualifications

• Software development experience, ideally with the ArcGIS Maps SDKs (Native or Web)
• Experience or knowledge of other GIS software (GeoServer, QGIS)
• Project management experience using tools such as GitHub
• Practical experience working as part of the software development process
• Understanding of Agile and design-centric software methodologies and tools
• Master's in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields

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