Senior GIS Consultant/Analyst - Croydon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - AECOM Technology Corporation

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Company Description

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Job Description

AECOM are currently looking to recruit a Senior GIS Consultant/Analyst to join our Geospatial Team within the Digital Environment Practice Area. This is a full-time, permanent role within a team of 40 geospatial and data specialists located in multiple offices across the UK and Ireland. Reporting to the Geospatial Lead, the role will provide GIS delivery on a range of projects to internal and external clients, working as part of a multi-disciplinary project delivery team on projects ranging in scale and complexity.

As a Senior GIS Consultant/Analyst within the Geospatial Team, the successful candidate will combine their existing experience and skill set with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and database management to support a wide range of exciting and diverse projects in the UK and Internationally. Projects will range in scale and complexity and include locally and nationally significant projects in sectors such as Power/Renewables, Infrastructure, and Transport. Through the use of the Esri technology stack (mobile, desktop and web) and your passion for automating and innovation, using ETL tools like FME, the successful candidate will be sourcing, managing, and creating content and aiding project teams and clients in visualising and analysing spatial information to aid decision making and reporting.

You will be working with senior members of the team who will provide GIS leadership and mentorship and allow you to continually develop and diversify your skills and experience. On projects, you will have the chance to enhance existing workflows, improve efficiency in delivery and be part of a centre of technical excellence in GIS. Through engagement and developing strong relationships with internal Project Managers and technical leads, you will utilise your consultancy skills to promote Geospatial technology to clients and stakeholders.

Examples of AECOM projects where this skill base has been applied include.

• Supporting a national transportation client in designing and creating an infrastructure land management system by using FME to generate appropriate land parcels based upon a range of client criteria.
• Developing an automated Quality Assurance system for a renewables client using FME and ArcGIS Online to streamline the submission of contractor materials to the client's enterprise geodatabase.
• Using Python to implement an automated reporting tool for the Caledonian Water Alliance, allowing project managers to be kept informed of field survey progress.

Job Duties

• Support the GIS element of projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Collaboratively working closely with project GIS Leads, data analysis and other stakeholders to support a diverse project team of subject matter experts to view, interrogate, analyse, and present spatial information.
• Utilise scripts and FME workbenches to enhance automation, customise workflows, and address unique data transformation requirements.
• Spatial and non-spatial data handling, creating, and managing content in enterprise and file geodatabases, using good data management principles.
• Carry out geoprocessing/analysis tasks - using coding skills in ArcPy, Python and/or Arcade to efficiently deliver and customise deliverables.
• Support webGIS (ArcGIS Online) creation and maintenance to aid project team access to spatial information.
• Provide consultancy to internal and external clients to understand their needs and provide solutions.
• Working to programme and budget whilst maintaining the quality of delivery.
• Work within set GIS standards and best practice.
• Ensure quality assurance of all deliverables and follow internal and client-mandated Technical Quality Review processes.

Qualifications

Specific Skills Required

• Proven GIS knowledge and experience of managing GIS projects.
• Highly competent in the use of ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Esri mobile apps, and ArcGIS Enterprise.
• Demonstrable experience in FME Form to both streamline and simplify common data conversion and ETL tasks as well as solve geospatial data analysis problems; additional experience in FME Flow is desirable.
• An excellent understanding of spatial data structures and fundamental concepts of GIS.
• Knowledge of managing and maintaining enterprise geodatabases, including implementing corporate and industry.
• Understanding and experience with the ArcGIS Enterprise platform.
• A well-rounded problem solver who understands client requirements/issues and identifies efficient and innovative ways to deliver results.
• Experience designing custom geospatial solutions using either open-source tools (geopandas, PostGIS, QGIS etc) or proprietary enterprise solutions (ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python etc).
• Ability to complete work with GIS best practices and corporate standards in mind.
• Ability to liaise with internal and external clients to promote GIS and deliver innovation and high-quality GIS input into their projects.
• Customer-focused, motivated, with a keen eye for detail.
• Able to communicate and coordinate a delivery team based in multiple locations.
• Proficient in the delivery of allocated project tasks to meet quality, time, and budget requirements.

Additional Information

You can learn more about us here: 2023 AECOM Candidate Brochure )

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J

Business Line: Environment

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Digital & Engineering Technology

Work Location Model: Hybrid