Title GIS Analyst Location Lansing, MI (Hybrid Locals Only) Duration 12 Months Job Type C2C,W2 Job Description
Position Description:
- The GIS Data Architect under the Enterprise Section reports to the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB) Agency Services supporting the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
- This position will work with Enterprise Application Architect and Enterprise Data Architect.
- This position will be partnering with MDOT's GIS Team, MDOT application Business leads and MDOT Information Stewards.
- This position will collaborate with GIS data authors and consumers, Center for Shared Solutions (CSS) GIS Administrators, Roads & Highways specialists, MDOT SDE (Spatial Data Engine) Geodatabase Administrators, information management staff, solution developers and business domain stakeholders, such as information managers, data stewards and business analysts.
Experience Required:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in GIS-IT and enterprise data architecture.
- Minimum of 2 years integrating GIS systems built on relational databases with other applications (built in-house and vendor). Ability to quickly comprehend the GIS needs of applications and develop smart data solutions to deliver the data.
Skillsets Required:
- Expert level experience with ESRI ArcGIS products such as ArcCatalog, ArcMap or ArcPro.
- Experience building model data workflows to extract, transform and load GIS data using ArcGIS Model Builder is a must. (Experience on Spatial ETL tools such as Safe FME will be a plus.)
- Experience using the ESRI Roads and Highways Database and ESRI Versioned/non-Versioned Datasets.
- Knowledge in Python Programming using the ArcPy and ArcGIS Python API.
- Demonstratable experience in building GIS integration capabilities (feature or web service based) with applications.
- Knowledge and proven skills in MS SQL Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate at all levels of the organization.
Position Summary:
- The MDOT GIS Architect will be the key resource in integrating MDOT applications to the ESRI Roads and Highways for GIS data.
- The duty of this position involves understanding the data collected in Roads & Highways Database, MDOT's SDE environment and data needs of MDOT's applications.
- It also includes identifying the differences and driving towards accuracy, standardization, and synchronization.
- This position will assist the annual migration of MDOT applications while working towards the new and improvised migration process.
- This position will participate in key meetings involving GIS data as a DTMB Agency Service representative and speaks to the GIS needs of consumer applications.
- This position will also be responsible for managing the ArcGIS License manager which involves setup, update of the MDOT's ESRI License manager, and adding of licenses periodically.