Senior Consultant - Gas and Electric

Summary

Join Esri's Professional Services division as a GIS Consultant to help utility clients leverage Esri's technology. You will work closely with clients, translating their needs into practical GIS solutions and implementing multi-year strategies. Responsibilities include leading project teams, managing project deliverables, and fostering client relationships. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of GIS experience in the electric and gas utilities sector, along with expertise in Esri products and RDBMS. Esri offers a competitive total rewards package, including comprehensive health benefits, retirement plans, paid time off, and opportunities for professional growth. Relocation assistance to Redlands, CA is available.

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 in information systems, GIS, computer science, or relevant field
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this posting. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US

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
• Master's in information systems, GIS, computer science, or relevant field

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
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth