GIS Team Lead
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About the Role
Lead GIS design and administration, ensuring system performance and security while providing technical support and managing enterprise GIS solutions.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the GIS team in implementation, operation, and support of enterprise GIS solutions
- Provide technical guidance to GIS engineers, analysts, developers, and support staff
- Review solution designs, configurations, and change requests related to GIS systems
- Act as main technical focal point for GIS related project activities
- Administer and maintain ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise environment including ArcGIS Server, Portal, Web Adaptor, Data Store, ArcGIS Pro
- Manage GIS deployments across multiple servers in dev, test, staging, and production environments
- Monitor server health, availability, performance, and storage utilization
- Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot ESRI software components
- Ensure system resilience, backup, recovery, and business continuity readiness
- Support GIS infrastructure hosted on physical or virtual servers and coordinate with IT teams
- Manage enterprise geodatabases and GIS related databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- Support integration between ESRI GIS systems and enterprise platforms such as SCADA, Asset Management, APIs
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geomatics, Geography, Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field
- Minimum 7 10 years of GIS experience for Team Lead level
- Strong hands on experience with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise in a multi server environment
- Proven experience in GIS system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Experience with enterprise geodatabases and spatial data management
- Good understanding of Windows Server administration and enterprise infrastructure concepts
- Experience with IIS, Web Adaptors, SSL certificates, and web based GIS publishing
- Strong knowledge of GIS service deployment, performance tuning, and monitoring
- Experience in system integration and support of enterprise applications
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
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Position Overview
- Seeking a highly capable GIS Team Lead / Senior GIS Engineer to lead design, administration, support, and enhancement of ESRI GIS platform across multi server environment.
- Responsible for managing overall GIS technical landscape, ensuring system availability, performance, security, integration, and delivery of GIS services.
- Provide both technical leadership and hands on engineering support for GIS applications, servers, databases, web services, and integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the GIS team in implementation, operation, and support of enterprise GIS solutions.
- Provide technical guidance to GIS engineers, analysts, developers, and support staff.
- Review solution designs, configurations, and change requests related to GIS systems.
- Act as main technical focal point for GIS related project activities.
- Administer and maintain ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise environment including ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Web Adaptor, ArcGIS Data Store, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Desktop.
- Manage GIS deployments across multiple servers in development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Monitor server health, availability, performance, and storage utilization.
- Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot ESRI software components.
- Ensure system resilience, backup, recovery, and business continuity readiness.
- Support GIS infrastructure hosted on physical or virtual servers.
- Coordinate with IT teams for server provisioning, network configuration, firewall rules, DNS, certificates, and access management.
- Manage high availability, load balancing, and multi machine GIS deployments where applicable.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geomatics, Geography, Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field.
- Minimum 7 10 years of GIS experience for Team Lead level.
- Strong hands on experience with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise in a multi server environment.
- Proven experience in GIS system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with enterprise geodatabases and spatial data management.
- Good understanding of Windows Server administration and enterprise infrastructure concepts.
- Experience with IIS, Web Adaptors, SSL certificates, and web based GIS publishing.
- Strong knowledge of GIS service deployment, performance tuning, and monitoring.
- Experience in system integration and support of enterprise applications.
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- ESRI technical certifications are highly preferred.
- Experience with ArcGIS Monitor, ArcGIS Image Server, or ArcGIS GeoEvent Server is an advantage.
- Experience with scripting or automation using JavaScript.
- Familiarity with cloud, virtualization, backup, and DR concepts.
- Experience in large scale government, utility, infrastructure, smart city, or transport projects.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity practices for enterprise application environments.
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