[Remote] Telecom Principal Engineer-Geospatial
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TEKsystems is partnering with a leading telecommunications client to build a strategic team focused on network capacity planning and market expansion. The role involves analyzing geospatial and consumer datasets to identify market opportunities and translating that analysis into actionable investment recommendations for infrastructure growth.
Responsibilities
- Analyze geospatial and consumer datasets to identify market opportunities and infrastructure gaps
- Build and present business cases that translate spatial analysis into actionable investment recommendations
- Develop and maintain spatial models to support strategic planning and network expansion analysis
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries to extract and manipulate large datasets from internal and cloud-based sources
- Build automated Python scripts and workflows for data cleaning, transformation, and analysis
- Create dashboards, maps, and reports that communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Validate and cross-reference internal datasets to ensure accuracy and consistency
- Proactively identify data gaps and drive resolution across internal teams and systems
- Collaborate with engineering, planning, and strategy teams to align insights with business goals
Skills
- Direct GIS experience within the telecommunications industry- THIS IS A MUST
- Ability to write code in both Python and SQL
- Demonstrated initiative in translating geospatial analysis into business cases, investment decisions, or strategic recommendations — proactively surfacing insights that drive action, not just responding to requests
- Telecom industry GIS experience — mandatory
- Proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, and analysis
- Advanced SQL skills for querying and managing large relational datasets
- Hands-on experience with GIS platforms (ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo, or similar)
- Ability to build a business narrative around geospatial findings and present to leadership
- Experience working with large-scale geospatial and consumer datasets
- Strong initiative — you chase down answers, you don't wait to be pointed at them
- Experience supporting network planning, capacity strategy, or infrastructure investment decisions
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools and environments
- Background in consumer segmentation, demographic overlays, or competitive analysis
- Experience building visualizations and dashboards (Tableau, Power BI, or GIS-integrated platforms)
- Exposure to cloud migration or modernization initiatives within a telecom environment
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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