GIS Specialist

Role: GIS Specialist

📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium

🏢 Company: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Belgium

📅 Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced GIS Specialist to join our team and support the design, development, administration, and optimization of enterprise geospatial solutions. The successful candidate will work with advanced GIS platforms, spatial databases, remote sensing technologies, and web mapping applications to deliver high-quality geospatial services and insights that support business and operational decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Define GIS strategies, reference architectures, standards, and best practices.
• Analyse business and technical requirements and design GIS solutions to meet organizational needs.
• Develop GIS processes, automation scripts, and custom geospatial applications.
• Perform advanced spatial analysis, geostatistics, network analysis, modelling, and geoprocessing.
• Design and create cartographic products, thematic maps, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Process and analyse remote sensing and earth observation data, including classification and change detection.
• Create, maintain, and manage GIS datasets while ensuring compliance with metadata and data standards.
• Administer GIS platforms, databases, user access, security, performance tuning, and upgrades.
• Develop and maintain GIS web applications and OGC-compliant web services (WMS, WFS, WMTS).
• Monitor and optimize GIS architecture for scalability, reliability, availability, and performance.
• Implement data validation rules, quality assurance procedures, and automated workflows.
• Integrate GIS platforms with enterprise systems, APIs, ERP, CRM, BI tools, and external data sources.
• Ensure compliance with INSPIRE Directive, ISO standards, OGC standards, and geospatial governance frameworks.
• Manage coordinate reference systems (CRS), projections, and spatial transformations.
• Prepare technical documentation, reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications.

Required Skills & Experience

GIS Platforms & Tools

• ArcGIS Suite
• QGIS
• GRASS GIS
• GDAL
• ArcGIS Online

Geospatial Databases

• PostgreSQL / PostGIS
• Oracle Spatial
• Spatial database design and administration
• Spatial indexing and data modelling

Programming & Automation

• Python
• JavaScript
• R
• GIS workflow automation and scripting

Web Mapping & GIS Development

• Leaflet
• Mapbox
• D3.js
• HTML5
• CSS
• Node.js
• REST APIs
• WebGL
• GeoJSON / TopoJSON
• OGC Standards (WMS, WFS, WMTS, SLD, T-WMS)

Spatial Analysis

• Computational Geometry
• Network Analysis
• Geostatistics
• Photogrammetry
• Remote Sensing
• Spatial Modelling

Big Data & Earth Observation

• Google Earth Engine (GEE)
• Hadoop
• Athena
• MapReduce
• Copernicus
• Sentinel
• Landsat

Standards & Governance

• INSPIRE Directive
• ISO 19115 Metadata Standards
• OGC Standards
• Geospatial Data Governance
• Metadata Management and Cataloguing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Geomatics, Geoinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Formal GIS training and/or professional GIS certifications.
• Nice to Have: Esri Technical Certifications (ArcGIS Pro Associate or Professional).

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Attention to detail and commitment to data quality.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects effectively.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Team player with the ability to work independently.
• Results-oriented mindset with a focus on delivery and continuous improvement.
• Ability to participate in multilingual environments.
• Language: Fluent in English & one of French or Dutch.