Principal GIS Consultant

Responsibilities Provide GIS support to all areas of the business as required. Assist in developing efficient working practices to provide industry leading, best value services to our clients. Infuse innovative approaches and spatial solutions harnessing the power of GIS Engage in data manipulation, geospatial processing, and data cleansing, ensuring conformity with established standards Undertaking GIS mapping, analysis, data management, geoprocessing, and data visualizations Supporting and participating in the designing and development of the geospatial database Compile geographic datasets into enterprise geodatabase Support the teams in designing, coding, integrating, testing, and deploying bespoke GIS functionality, scripts, tools, and web applications in answer to client equirements. Preparing and coordinating work for GIS staff based in the Middle East and overseas for internal and external client Develop and maintain QA on datasets and outputs Maintaining up-to-date and accurate geospatial documentation, SOP, best practices, and user guide Providing GIS technical mentoring to junior GIS staff Contributing to the technical development of the GIS team through sharing ideas and innovations Undertake own continuous professional development and stay up to date with the latest GIS developments Knowledge And Experience Experience in GIS domain for 10-12 years. Consulting experience would be added advantage Core principles of GIS and GIS data management. Advanced level of proficiency and experience in ESRI-based products and open-source products. Demonstrated experience with ArcGIS Desktop, Geodatabases, ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online, QGIS Experience working with vector and raster datasets Understanding of relational databases and geodatabase design and development Geospatial data processing and analysis with Python using ArcPy or open source libraries. Good experience in configuring and developing cross-platform web applications using Web AppBuilder, Experience Builder, Operation Dashboard, and Story Map. Experience in setting up mobile data collection using Collector for ArcGIS, Field Maps, Survey123 Identifying innovative solutions to problems and driving the development of the solutions Customer focussed approach to quality and service. Proactive approach to developing new skills and keeping up to date with technology. Experience in creating support documentation relating to best practices, SOP, and user guides. Good Knowledge of open-source GIS such as QGIS, OpenLayers, GeoServer, Leaflet, Mapbox, PostGIS Google Map API Experience with data modeling, data conversion, and ETL Software such as FME, Alteryx Working knowledge of CAD and GIS integrating with CAD tools such as BIM, Revvit, and Civil 3D preferred

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