Sr GIS Consultant - Census Bureau

In this position, you will work closely with clients in helping to define geospatial-centric solutions and implementation of those solutions. You will solve complex geospatial problems by evaluating and translating the customer's business goals, objectives, and strategies.

This team supports the official statistics domain. You will be part of a talented cross-functional team of dynamic and passionate engineers to deliver capabilities that enable our customers to make a difference in census and official statistics communities around the world. You will be part of a team that influences lasting contributions for communities with the web and mobile applications you create.

The Professional Services division is the consulting and implementation arm of Esri. We break ground in new markets, push the technology envelope and ultimately deliver transformational solutions to high profile clients worldwide. The Professional Services organization is comprised of nearly 1,000 talented business and technical professionals who strive every day to help our users be successful.

Responsibilities

• Help clients translate real-world needs into practical, state-of-the-art solutions
• Recommend relevant strategies, architectures, and solutions for customer requirements and work with customers to prepare implementations, change management, and migration activities
• Utilize strong GIS technical know-how and census and official statistics domain expertise to work across Esri and support official statistic activities
• Support global government customers with advances in the integration of statistical, geospatial data, and geospatially enabled statistics to support evidence-based policy making
• Manage projects and support customers throughout the entire project life cycle, including requirements, analysis, design, build, and implementation
• Lead the scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables through planning, tracking, quality assurance, change control, and risk management
• Establish, develop, and expand relationships with customers, partners, and distributors

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in a similar position, supporting similar responsibilities
• Professional experience supporting the design, implementation, and administration of enterprise geospatial technology
• Domain knowledge in census and official statistics organizations, including population census workflows, best practices, guidelines, and policy as it applies to areas such as planning for an enumeration, conducting an enumeration with both pen-and-paper assisted interview (PAPI) and computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI), and best practices for dissemination of statistical data
• Demonstrated ability to translate a customer's business goals, objectives, and strategies into solutions
• Ability to develop project designs, work plans, budgets and schedules
• Bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geography, or related field

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience with ArcGIS, location-based services, geo-enabled apps, spatial analysis, or similar geospatial technology
• Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geography, or related field