GIS Engineer - Inside IR35 - Insurance

GIS Engineer6-Month Contract 650 Inside IR35 Hybrid - 1 Day per Week in Central London We're seeking an experienced GIS Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering innovative geospatial solutions within a risk and analytics environment. This is a hands-on role focused on building production-grade geospatial services, spatial data pipelines and interactive mapping solutions. You'll work closely with architects, product leaders and engineering teams to develop scalable GIS platforms while making use of modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery. What You'll Be Doing • Designing and developing geospatial services and APIs that underpin business-critical analytics products. • Building and maintaining spatial data pipelines for ingesting, transforming and validating large geospatial datasets. • Applying advanced GIS expertise across coordinate systems, spatial analysis, topology, cartography and data quality management. • Developing robust Python-based solutions using modern software engineering practices. • Contributing to web application delivery using TypeScript and modern frameworks such as Angular or React. • Leveraging AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve development efficiency. • Collaborating with product managers, architects and technical stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment. Essential Skills & Experience • Strong commercial experience in GIS Engineering or Geospatial Development roles. • Excellent Python development skills, ideally using libraries such as GeoPandas, Shapely, Fiona, Rasterio, GDAL/OGR and PyProj. • Experience working with spatial databases such as PostGIS. • Strong knowledge of coordinate systems, projections, geometry, topology and spatial analysis. • Experience with GIS platforms including ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer or MapServer. • Hands-on experience with interactive web mapping solutions using ArcGIS Maps SDK, Leaflet, OpenLayers or Mapbox. • Exposure to front-end development using TypeScript and Angular or React. • Experience using Azure DevOps, GitHub and Agile delivery methodologies. • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Desirable • Insurance, risk analytics, catastrophe modelling or financial services experience. • Azure cloud experience. • Knowledge of containerisation and distributed geospatial processing. • Experience with raster/vector tiling, remote sensing or 3D geospatial datasets. • Exposure to C#/.NET environments. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.