GIS Specialist

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AECOM’s Technology Solutions Department within our Water Business Line is actively seeking a creative, self-motivated, highly talented GIS Specialist to join our team in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The qualified applicant will be able to demonstrate an established progressive career in GIS and Information Technology.  This position will provide technical GIS support and coordination on a wide range of enterprise GIS and digital projects and programs across the region. 

Additionally, you will have the ability to assist in managing project tasks and project teams to support ongoing projects and quality control. The ideal candidate will need to thrive in an oftentimes fast-paced environment, have attention to detail, and possess a broad range of GIS skills and QA/QC capabilities.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Utilize GIS to produce, display, and analyze spatial information
• Develop and maintain databases, reports, and mapping utilizing GIS data
• Create, organize, manipulate, and retrieve GIS data for reporting, analysis, and presentation purposes
• Perform quality assurance of GIS data and associated components
• Use concepts, practices and procedures to extract and provide GIS data to clients
• Lead project specific tasks while working closely with project team to meet client deadlines
• Maintain an effective and frequent line of communication amongst team members and clients
• Data collection, creation, conversion, and editing
• Gather and review technical requirements to meet project goals and implement quality assurance procedures
• Follow project plans to successfully execute assigned work
• Work with the AECOM team lead to ensure quality in all work products
• Maintain quality assurance of spatial and non-spatial data and processes as per defined standards
• Maintain strong knowledge in existing and emerging GIS related software and technologies
• Create and maintain GIS data in an ArcGIS Enterprise environment
• Apply attention to detail with proactive and resourceful problem-solving skills
• Communicating and collaborating with the project manager and project team lead to understand and document system/solution requirements
• Organize, document, and communicate status updates to program leads and relevant project teams
• Have excellent critical thinking, decision-making, conflict resolution, and analytical skills

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in geography, computer science, or a related field and 2+ years of progressive GIS analysis and work experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in ArcGIS -Esri suite of software including ArcGIS Server, ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro, with specific experience programming those products using the Python API for ArcGIS or ArcPy.
• Develop tools, scripts and workflows to automate and streamline mapping, data management and geoprocessing tasks
• Automation of Geoprocessing tools using Python and familiarity with Microsoft.NET.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of Web GIS, Server, ArcGIS client interoperations
• Understanding of relational databases and Geodatabase technology.
• Strong understanding of spatial data
• Geodatabase management experience for data operations, including setup, schema, domains, relationship classes, and topology rules
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Excellent time management skills
• Develop web maps (AGOL, ArcGIS Portal) and Esri field solutions (ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey123) for project staff to collect, review project data, and maintain online services
• Experience working on environmental/natural resources and water resources projects

• Sponsorship is not available for this position
• Relocation is not available for this position

About AECOM

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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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