Principal GIS Consultant

Responsibilities

• Provide GIS support to all areas of the business as required.
• Assist in developing efficient working practices to provide industry leading, best value services to our clients.
• Infuse innovative approaches and spatial solutions harnessing the power of GIS
• Engage in data manipulation, geospatial processing, and data cleansing, ensuring conformity with established standards
• Undertaking GIS mapping, analysis, data management, geoprocessing, and data visualizations
• Supporting and participating in the designing and development of the geospatial database
• Compile geographic datasets into enterprise geodatabase
• Support the teams in designing, coding, integrating, testing, and deploying bespoke GIS functionality, scripts, tools, and web applications in answer to client requirements.
• Preparing and coordinating work for GIS staff based in the Middle East and overseas for internal and external client
• Develop and maintain QA on datasets and outputs
• Maintaining up-to-date and accurate geospatial documentation, SOP, best practices, and user guide
• Providing GIS technical mentoring to junior GIS staff
• Contributing to the technical development of the GIS team through sharing ideas and innovations
• Undertake own continuous professional development and stay up to date with the latest GIS developments

Knowledge And Experience

• Experience in GIS domain for 10-12 years. Consulting experience would be added advantage
• Core principles of GIS and GIS data management.
• Advanced level of proficiency and experience in ESRI-based products and open-source products.
• Demonstrated experience with ArcGIS Desktop, Geodatabases, ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online, QGIS
• Experience working with vector and raster datasets
• Understanding of relational databases and geodatabase design and development
• Geospatial data processing and analysis with Python using ArcPy or open source libraries.
• Good experience in configuring and developing cross-platform web applications using Web AppBuilder, Experience Builder, Operation Dashboard, and Story Map.
• Experience in setting up mobile data collection using Collector for ArcGIS, Field Maps, Survey123
• Identifying innovative solutions to problems and driving the development of the solutions
• Customer focussed approach to quality and service.
• Proactive approach to developing new skills and keeping up to date with technology.

• Experience in creating support documentation relating to best practices, SOP, and user guides.
• Good Knowledge of open-source GIS such as QGIS, OpenLayers, GeoServer, Leaflet, Mapbox, PostGIS Google Map API
• Experience with data modeling, data conversion, and ETL Software such as FME, Alteryx
• Working knowledge of CAD and GIS integrating with CAD tools such as BIM, Revvit, and Civil 3D preferred