Position Summary
The Infrastructure and Economic Development (IED) Delivery Center is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Transportation Geospatial Project Manager to lead enterprise-level geospatial initiatives at PennDOT. This position plays a critical leadership role in the planning, coordination, and execution of geospatial projects that enhance infrastructure management initiatives throughout Pennsylvania.
The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep geospatial expertise, project management acumen, and a commitment to innovation, delivering modern GIS solutions that drive interagency efficiency and public service improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Project Management
- Define project charters, deliverables, budgets, and schedules in alignment with Commonwealth and agency priorities.
- Manage agency teams and vendor resources to deliver complex GIS projects on time and within scope.
- Ensure alignment with IED Delivery Center, agency and OA strategic priorities, enterprise GIS roadmaps, and security/compliance standards.
- Facilitate requirements for workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Translate business needs into geospatial system requirements including technical specifications, data workflows, service configurations, and interface definitions.
- Produce succinct status reports, dashboards, and presentations.
ArcGIS Enterprise & Integration support
- Coordinate tasks related to ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, upgrades, configuration, service publishing, and system integration.
- Create and manage requirements traceability matrices linking requirements to design, testing, and acceptance.
Stakeholder Engagement & Client Management
- Liaise with program offices, Commonwealth agencies, and vendors to understand business requirements and deliver geospatial solutions that meet mission needs.
- Facilitate stakeholder communication, reporting, and change management throughout project lifecycles.
Testing Strategy, Coordination & Quality Assurance
- Oversee test execution across environments and ensure defects are tracked, triaged, and resolved.
- Guarantee digital accessibility testing is performed and addressed to meet Commonwealth standards for GIS products.
- Validate system performance, data integrity, service reliability, map rendering performance, and API response behavior.
- Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing with program area SMEs.
Minimum Experience and Training
- 3+ years of experience supporting or managing projects in ArcGIS Enterprise based systems and geospatial applications.
- Project management with multi-team IT coordination responsibilities.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud concepts, web GIS development, and DevOps workflows.
- Proven ability to write, maintain, and organize detailed technical documentation.
- Demonstrated experience with structured testing methodologies and test management tools.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and team leadership skills Knowledge of GIS integrations
- Comfort navigating multi-agency governance and IT prioritization processes
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile/Scrum Master or similar certification
Working Conditions
- Primarily telework in a hybrid work model with required availability for in-person collaboration at the Commonwealth Keystone Building or designated agency sites as requested.
- Collaborative and mission-driven culture focused on modernization, service delivery, and innovation.
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