GIS Specialist for Impact Forecasting Wildfire team (Prague)

This role is part of Aon Impact Forecasting team, a team of scientists, developers and client services colleagues together developing and supporting catastrophe models for various perils including flood, windstorm, earthquake, wildfire or terrorism.

GIS Specialist

We are looking for a GIS Specialist to join our Impact Forecasting Wildfire team. The role focuses on geospatial data, analysis, and tooling related to wildfire and weather-based modeling and strengthening our geospatial capabilities for wildfire and related perils. The ideal candidate combines strong GIS and programming skills with either existing wildfire experience or a strong interest in developing it.

What the day will look like

• Support and improve geospatial components of wildfire and hazard workflows, including handling, and processing large datasets
• Develop, test, and maintain GIS/data pipelines in Python, automating spatial processing and quality checks QGIS and similar tools
• Work with wildfire and weather data to support model development and geospatial implementation of new methods
• Contribute to how the fuels, topography and built environment patterns are represented in models

Skills and Experience That Will Lead to Success

• University Degree in geography, GIS, environmental science, geoscience, or a closely related field and relevant working experience
• Strong hands‑on GIS experience (required), and working with large raster/vector datasets, projections, and spatial analyses
• Strong programming/scripting skills (required), preferably in Python, with reproducible pipelines and version control
• Interest or experience in wildfire risk is a plus, including basic wildfire behavior concepts and willingness to deepen wildfire expertise
• Experience with geospatial data in HPC or cloud environments, SQL or other databases, or AI or machine learning for spatial or environmental data is an advantage

What we offer

• Interesting and varied role in a dynamic and exciting team – Aon is an equal opportunity employer
• Opportunity to work for a market leader in the global reinsurance and insurance industry
• Possibility of flexible working
• Attractive compensation package including benefits like pension scheme contributions, language courses, high quality working conditions in our modern offices in the city center of Prague

Please note applications are available for candidates with valid work permit in Czechia.

If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your structured CV, including a brief description of your GIS skills and work history, at: tereza.kalikova@aon.com