Lead GIS Integration Engineer

Title: Lead GIS Integration Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: Long Term

Key Responsibilities

GIS Integration & Architecture

•         Lead the technical design and implementation of integrations between Small World GIS, ESRI (ArcGIS), and ADMS platforms.

•         Define and enforce integration standards, data contracts, and API design patterns across GIS and ADMS systems.

•         Architect event-driven data flows using Apache Kafka to enable real-time synchronization of network model and spatial data.

•         Evaluate and resolve data model conflicts, schema mismatches, and coordinate business rule reconciliation between source and target systems.

Data Migration

•         Lead end-to-end GIS data migration efforts using FME (Feature Manipulation Engine), including workspace development, automation, and validation.

•         Design and execute migration runbooks, data quality checks, and rollback procedures for production cutovers.

•         Establish data lineage tracking, transformation audit logs, and migration metrics dashboards.

•         Collaborate with GIS analysts and data stewards to validate migrated spatial datasets against business requirements.

Cloud & DevOps

•         Design and maintain AWS infrastructure for GIS workloads (EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway).

•         Implement CI/CD pipelines and branching strategies using Git (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket) for GIS integration codebases.

•         Champion infrastructure-as-code practices and automated testing for integration pipelines.

•         Monitor pipeline health, set up alerting, and manage incident response for production GIS data flows.

Python Development

•         Develop Python-based ETL pipelines, spatial processing scripts, and integration connectors (GeoPandas, Shapely, ArcPy, Fiona, PyProj).

•         Build and maintain REST/SOAP API clients for ESRI, Small World, and ADMS interfaces.

•         Contribute reusable libraries and internal tooling to accelerate team delivery.

Technical Leadership

•         Serve as the primary technical lead and point of escalation for the GIS integration workstream.

•         Mentor junior engineers and GIS analysts; conduct code reviews and uphold engineering best practices.

•         Facilitate stakeholder workshops to gather integration requirements and define acceptance criteria.

•         Produce technical documentation: architecture diagrams, integration specifications, runbooks, and operational guides.

•         Coordinate closely with ADMS vendor teams, network operations, and enterprise architecture.

Required Qualifications

Experience

•         8+ years of professional experience in GIS engineering, systems integration, or spatial data management.

•         3+ years in a technical lead or senior individual contributor role on enterprise GIS or utility technology programs.

•         Demonstrated experience delivering GIS-to-ADMS or equivalent OT/IT integration projects in the utilities sector.

Technical Skills

Preferred Qualifications

•         Experience with Smallworld CASE Tools, RCM, or UPDM network modeling.

•         Familiarity with CIM (Common Information Model) and IEC 61968/61970 standards.

•         AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud certification.

•         Safe SCRUM Master, PMP, or equivalent project/delivery credential.

•         Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.

•         Exposure to QGIS, GeoServer, or open-source spatial stack.

•         Background in electric, gas, or water utility network operations.

Education

•         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

•         Advanced degree (M.S.) or equivalent professional experience in a relevant discipline preferred.