Product Engineer II – ArcGIS Arcade in Cardiff

Bring your enthusiasm and knowledge of GIS customization to help build and test advancements to ArcGIS Arcade. Arcade is used by organisations around the world to customize their workflows, QA/QC data input, and create cutting edge visualisations. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the product development team and support the delivery of regular, high-quality releases in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment. Help us improve our Arcade functional capabilities, test routines, and documentation as part of the ArcGIS Pro development team developing Arcade. You’ll also collaborate with engineers on other products to ensure seamless integration across ArcGIS.

Responsibilities

• Apply curious, independent thought, and attention to detail to explore and understand the challenges that ArcGIS users face and provide usable, informative feedback on user experience.
• Build rich and varied GIS datasets and maps, sample applications and articles that can be used to highlight product capabilities, explain scripting functions, and guide scripting best practices.
• Work with your development team, and teams across Esri, to design, create, and validate the newest datasets and GIS workflows to support visualisation, map labelling, pop‑ups, attribute rules and verify the functionality meets user workflows and is consistent with Esri ecosystem.
• Describe GIS best practices and demonstrate how to apply these GIS workflows in internal team meetings, on product forums and websites, with customers, at Esri events, or in publications like the ArcGIS Blog.
• Learn about and collaborate in AI code generation experiences to explore issues, investigate problems, and design and prototype enhancements.
• Build focused test code to represent complex situations for investigation and regression testing.
• Administer, automate, and manage online and database GIS systems and services to support the development of new product features and ongoing product releases.

Requirements

• 2+ years of GIS experience (such as modeling, analysing, or presenting geospatial data in a scientific, engineering, governmental, or postgraduate academic environment).
• Proficiency with mapping, spatial data or GIS platforms such as ArcGIS or QGIS.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytic skills.
• Proven initiative and creativity to find ways to explore, investigate, test and validate software behaviour.
• Experience of, and interest in, scripting or coding to appreciate our end users’ challenges and to communicate effectively with the development team.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, geography, computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Existing work authorisation for the United Kingdom.

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience and passion for working with cartography, mapping or geospatial data.
• Interest in or knowledge of AI code generation and development tools.
• Proven experience of user communication and education such as having been responsible for product documentation, blogs, written or video tutorials, presentations.
• Familiarity using version control systems such as Git, for documentation and code.
• Familiarity with some of the scripting or coding languages such as Python, Lua, JavaScript, Perl, or TypeScript.
• Master’s degree in GIS, computer science, engineering, or related field.

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.