GIS Analyst

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 MDOTs 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 GISIT and enterprise data architecture.
• Minimum of 2 years integrating GIS systems built on relational databases with other applications (built inhouse 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/nonVersioned 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 MDOTs SDE environment and data needs of MDOTs 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 MDOTs ESRI License manager and adding of licenses periodically.