Gis Practicum

**This two month practicum term is open to students currently enrolled in the BCIT GIS Program.**

**Location**: Remote / Hybrid option in the Vancouver Lower Mainland
**Wage**:$23.50 pr/hr CAD
**Duration**: Block Mode | April 21, 2025 - June 20, 2025 |

**Application Instructions**:

- **Required**:Resume, Cover Letter
This posting will remain open until the role has been filled

***About Safe Software**:
Safe Software is the creator and developer of FME — the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data worldwide. Over 10,000 organizations around the world use FME in industries like AEC, government, utilities, and transportation to maximize the value of their data.

Founded in 1993, Safe is headquartered in Surrey, BC with over 200 team members and counting. We’re always looking for talented individuals with diverse backgrounds who are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team?

***Practicum Objective**:
Cloud native standards are a key aspect of deploying data to the cloud in an easy to implement, cost effective and scalable way. Recent enhancements to FME include support for a comprehensive range of cloud native formats. The central goal of this practicum is to add a range of tutorials to our knowledge base in order to better support our users. This will enable them to more readily implement cloud based data sharing solutions using these new, powerful, web-enabled standards. This project’s outcome will have a lasting impact for FME and its user community.

**Practicum Deliverables**:
At Safe Software, we love when information is made more accessible and this practicum is no different. We want you to share what you’ve learned with both our team and our customers. In this practicum, you’ll have the opportunity to:

- Build data transformation models in FME.
- Consume and generate data according to cloud native standards such as COG, STAC, ZARR, COPC, Geoparquet and Flatgeobuff
- Develop instructional demos to be used to illustrate key concepts and workflows in the tutorials.
- Publish tutorials on Safe Software’s FME Knowledge Base describing how to work with cloud native formats using FME
- Deliver presentations to the Safe Software staff related to the tutorial and demo development, including recommendations & outcomes.
- Published a blog article describing your practicum experience.

**Learning Outcomes**:
This practicum will build your skills as a GIS professional as you will gain a deeper understanding of day-to-day efforts and challenges within local governments. Upon completion of this practicum, you will:

- Learn how to build data transformation and generation models in FME.
- Become familiar with state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
- Gain familiarity with cloud-native geospatial standards such as STAC, COG, COPC, Geoparquet, Flatgeobuff and ZARR.
- Learn about a range of web services and messaging protocols such as REST API, HTTP GET, POST, etc.
- Develop communication and teamwork skills as you work directly with our team, customers, and partners.
- Improve your ability to write and present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Qualifications and Skills**:
Our team is open to collaborating with individuals with all levels of experience in GIS and software. Some skills that will be beneficial to this practicum may include:

- Any knowledge or experience with FME or GIS will be helpful
- Familiarity with any of the data structures typical with cloud-native such as raster, point clouds, columnar databases and JSON is an asset
- Knowledge or experience working with cloud-native and web standards
- Strong communication skills, particularly with reading and writing technical documentation
- Detail oriented. Validation and certification work requires focused attention to detail and the persistence to follow through diagnostic error logs and trace back to find the sources of any errors.
- Ability to work independently on projects and ask for help when needed

**Practicum Overview**:
**Week 1-2**
- Onboarding and meeting your new team.
- FME Platform Training:

- FME Accelerator
- FME Academy (FME Form Basic, FME Form Advanced, and optional FME Flow Authoring)
- Focused training on FME related to cloud data structures such as raster, point clouds and JSON, and working with APIs.

**Week 3-4**
- Review cloud native concepts and standards
- Understand and review cloud native related FME documentation and webinars
- Understand key issues related to raster data, columnar data, JSON, attribute management, and format attributes and connecting to APIs.
- Review Cloud Native Deep Dive webinar and extract demos suitable for the COG tutorial
- Develop Tutorial for COG, beginning with an outline, followed by a draft text with a demo

**Week 4-6**
- Review draft COG Tutorial with supervisor, internal tester and article reviewer. Address any problem areas.
- Publish COG Tutorial.
- Re