Remote GIS Consultant Senior

Summary

Join a talented cross-functional team as a Consultant to deliver solutions that enable our customers to make a difference in communities around the world. You will work closely with clients to establish solutions to make them successful, broaden the effect of GIS technology to their business, and help shape the evolution of the platform by identifying new implementation patterns.

Requirements

• 8+ years of significant, proven experience applying GIS technology within electric and gas utilities sector
• Domain expertise throughout the electric and gas utilities market including electric and/or gas distribution and transmission
• Experience with Esri products to solve complex business problems
• Familiarity with RDBMS and geodatabase design techniques and concepts
• Demonstrated professional experience applying electric and gas utilities GIS data management frameworks
• Knowledge of software development methodologies
• Ability to develop project designs, work plans, budgets, and schedules
• Experience with desktop, client/server, and Internet applications, and architectures
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, presentation, and leadership skills
• Bachelor’s information systems, GIS, computer science, or relevant field

Responsibilities

• Help clients translate real-world needs into practical, state-of-the-art, GIS technology-driven solutions through the implementation of Esri’s enterprise GIS technology
• Work with clients to prepare multi-year GIS implementation and migration strategies
• Collect, organize, and present client requirements, objectives, and business workflows to translate into meaningful and actionable strategies and plans
• Analyze and interpret business and technical problems and distill them into manageable and practical solutions or tasks
• Provide GIS technical guidance and advice
• Lead project teams during requirements, analysis, design, build, and rollout
• Create and manage the scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables through planning, tracking, quality assurance, change control, and risk management
• Manage projects ranging from small focused technical transfer engagements to large enterprise implementations of mission-critical systems
• Track project performance and report on status
• Manage subcontractors
• Manage client relationships and expectations
• Work with Esri’s marketing and sales teams to develop new business

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the integration of ArcGIS with common utility enterprise systems, such as: asset management, work management, network analysis, Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), customer information, and document management systems
• Knowledgeable of utility workflows and how they are applied through GIS, such as: facility management (AM/FM), right-of-way corridor planning, engineering, design, construction, inspection, network analysis, integration with other systems, and market analysis
• Ability to lead and manage consulting and software development teams

Benefits

• Industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• Minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year