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Staff Engineer GIS
Republic Services     Phoenix, AZ 85067
 Posted 17 days    

**ABOUT THE COMPANY**

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) is a leader in the environmental services industry. We provide customers with the most complete set of products and services, including recycling, waste, special waste, hazardous waste and field services. Our industry-leading commitments to advance circularity and support decarbonization are helping deliver on our vision to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world.

In 2023, Republic’s total company revenue was $14.9 billion, and adjusted EBITDA was $4.4 billion. We serve 13 million customers and operate more than 1,000 locations, including collection and transfer stations, recycling and polymer centers, treatment facilities, and landfills.

Although we operate across North America, the collection, recycling, treatment, or disposal of materials is a local business, and the dynamics and opportunities differ in each market we serve. By combining local operational management with standardized business practices, we drive greater operating efficiencies across the company while maintaining day-to-day operational decisions at the local level, closest to the customer.

Our customers, including small businesses, major corporations and municipalities, want a partner with the expertise and capabilities to effectively manage their multiple recycling and waste streams. They choose Republic Services because we are committed to exceeding their expectations and helping them achieve their sustainability goals. Our 41,000 team members understand that it's not just what we do that matters, but how we do it.

Our company values guide our daily actions:

+ **Safe** : We protect the livelihoods of our colleagues and communities.

+ **Committed to Serve** : We go above and beyond to exceed our customers’ expectations.

+ **Environmentally Responsible:** We take action to improve our environment.

+ **Driven** : We deliver results in the right way.

+ **Human-Centered:** We respect the dignity and unique potential of every person.

We are proud of our high employee engagement score of 86. We have an inclusive and diverse culture where every voice counts. In addition, our team positively impacted 4.6 million people in 2023 through the Republic Services Charitable Foundation and local community grants. These projects are designed to meet the specific needs of the communities we serve, with a focus on building sustainable neighborhoods.

**STRATEGY**

Republic Services’ strategy is designed to generate profitable growth. Through acquisitions and industry advancements, we safely and sustainably manage our customers’ multiple waste streams through a North American footprint of vertically integrated assets.

We focus on three areas of growth to meet the increasing needs of our customers: recycling and waste, environmental solutions and sustainability innovation.

With our integrated approach, strengthening our position in one area advances other areas of our business. For example, as we grow volume in recycling and waste, we collect additional material to bolster our circularity capabilities. And as we expand environmental solutions, we drive additional opportunities to provide these services to our existing recycling and waste customers.

**Recycling and Waste**

We continue to expand our recycling and waste business footprint throughout North America through organic growth and targeted acquisitions. The 13 million customers we serve and our more than 5 million pick-ups per day provide us with a distinct advantage. We aggregate materials at scale, unlocking new opportunities for advanced recycling. In addition, we are cross-selling new products and services to better meet our customers’ specific needs.

**Environmental Solutions**

Our comprehensive environmental solutions capabilities help customers safely manage their most technical waste streams. We are expanding both our capabilities and our geographic footprint. We see strong growth opportunities for our offerings, including PFAS remediation, an increasing customer need.

**SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION**

Republic’s recent innovations to advance circularity and decarbonization demonstrate our unique ability to leverage sustainability as a platform for growth.

The Republic Services Polymer Center is the nation’s first integrated plastics recycling facility. This innovative site processes rigid plastics from our recycling centers, producing recycled materials that promote true bottle-to-bottle circularity. We also formed Blue Polymers, a joint venture with Ravago, to develop facilities that will further process plastic material from our Polymer Centers to help meet the growing demand for sustainable packaging. We are building a network of Polymer Centers and Blue Polymer facilities across North America.

We continue to advance decarbonization at our landfills. As demand for renewable energy continues to grow, we have 70 landfill gas-to-energy projects in operation and plan to expand our portfolio to 115 projects by 2028.

**RECENT RECOGNITION**

+ Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies

+ CDP Discloser

+ Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

+ Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies

+ Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies

+ Great Place to Work

+ Sustainability Yearbook S&P Global

**POSITION SUMMARY:** The Staff Engineer is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for designing, building and maintaining complex enterprise scale platforms and architectures. The position is responsible for non-managerial leadership of an Information Technology technical team by instructing, coordinating, directing, and reviewing the technical work of other team members. The Staff Engineer develops and promotes standard operating procedures and policies for the operating platforms in their area of responsibility.

The position is also responsible for ensuring Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and high-level (conceptual, logical, physical) architectural approaches are adhered to by implementation teams. In addition, it leads continuous improvements to the team’s software development and/or operational processes.

**PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:**

+ Provides technical direction related to project deliverables for both onshore and off­shore development team members.

+ Reviews business requirements and technical analysis documentation to develop system implementation approaches designed to meet business objectives, while also consulting with Solution/Enterprise Architects.

+ Maintains and utilizes expert knowledge of, and provides system support for at least two or more complex technical operating environments.

+ Maintains code quality by leading code reviews and ensuring appropriate unit test coverage is in place.

+ Contributes to project deliverables by performing system administration and/or software development tasks as needed.

+ Provides input and feedback to team management for developers and analysts performance reviews and other hiring/promotion decisions.

+ Provides Tier 3 support and resolution of open IT issues escalated by IT Customer Support.

+ Reviews application performance metrics and consults with the development teams on enhancements opportunities.

+ Oversees the architecture, development, configuration, coding, testing, and debugging of software implementation projects and new software development for the Enterprise GIS team.

+ Leads the technical design and documentation of Republic Services’ Enterprise GIS platform including, but not limited to, development, data modeling, platform integration, data resiliency and recoverability, and business continuity / disaster recovery.

+ Leads and assists application programmers in defining applications system scope and objectives through research and fact finding.

+ Performs other job related duties as assigned.

**QUALIFICATIONS:**

+ In-depth understanding of GIS application development and best practices around optimization and testing.

+ Proficient with complex GIS concepts such as Spatial Projections, Geometric Networks, Density Analytics, Topology, Spatial Joins.

+ Experience developing and performance tuning RDBMS such as MS SQL Server or Oracle.

+ Deep understanding of object-oriented programming methodologies.

+ Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrumban, Scrum, Kanban) and Agile tools such as Rally or JIRA.

+ Experience with scripting tools such as Python, Batch, PowerShell to automate common functions.

+ Knowledge of Cloud architectures, services, and DevOps practices within Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, etc.

+ Experience consuming and developing RESTful web services.

+ Understanding of web performance optimization techniques.

+ Experience in mentoring and educating technical and non-technical business users and peers regarding Enterprise GIS development methodologies, best practices, and tools.

+ Demonstrates accountability, sound decision making, analytical thoroughness, and clear and concise communications.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:**

+ 12 years of related experience.

+ Minimum of 8 years of experience designing, developing, planning and implementing software solutions, tools, operations and support.

+ Minimum 5 years’ experience with the Esri ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Desktop and/or Pro, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, Geodatabases, ArcGIS JavaScript API.

**Rewarding Compensation and Benefits**

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:

• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.

• Health care and dependent care spending accounts.

• Short- and long-term disability.

• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.

• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).

• Employee discount programs.

• Retirement plan with a generous company match.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

_The statements used herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by an employee in this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required by an incumbent so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company._

EEO STATEMENT:Republic Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, relationship or association with a protected veteran (spouses or other family members), genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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