Senior GIS Consultant

Job Description

My client is a global consultancy whosepurpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses and communities.As aSenior GIS Consultant, you will be responsible for designing and developing innovative digital solutions and delivering complex technical projects for our clients to help them deliver outstanding outcomes with geospatial and digital technologies.Please note, this role does not offer visa sponsorship, you will need to hold current right to work in theUK.Salary - £45,000 - £50,000 (potentially more depending on experience)Location - Bristol or Cardiff (hybrid working on offer)Responsibilities• Lead and deliver complex technical projects and digital solutions meeting delivery timeframes while ensuring technical excellence• Design, develop and implement digital solutions based on automation, geospatial data analytics, data science, data management and data integration to extract deep insights from data and improve decision making• Work in multi-disciplinary teams to gather and evaluate requirements to deliver integrated digital solutions and outcome-based innovations• Work with clients and our GIS/Digital Solutions team to develop and deploy cutting-edge technologies based on automation, numerical modelling, programming, AI and IoT• Lead or support in business development activities• Work closely with international GIS team members in ongoing development and implementation of standards for day-to-day GIS and digital processes and data analytics / management• Mentor and assist the team in improving geospatial data collection, analysis, visualisation, and managementRequirements• Highly competent GIS Consultant with strong UK experience and client-orientated approach• Experienced in leading large-scale geospatial project delivery, budgeting, task and resource planning and prioritisation• Qualified in GIS, geospatial, data science, software engineering, other relevant disciplines,• Experienced technical lead in geospatial data integration and solutions development through automating complex technical workflows, spatial ETL, spatial analytics, spatial data collection, validation, and management including data standards and metadata,visualisation and desktop and web application development• Experienced in Safe FME desktop with a proven track record of designing, developing, and maintaining workbenches and leading / technically reviewing complex workbenches to ensure quality and best practice are applied• Track record in ESRI ArcGIS product suite including ArcPro, ArcMap, AGOL and mobile data collection• Experienced in Python scripting within ESRI ArcGIS and open source advantageous• Experienced in database development including data flows, schemas, metadata, data versioning, updates, and data standardsDesirable• Ideally Fellow of RGS (with IBG) and a Chartered Geographer (GIS)• Experience in FME server/cloud advantageous• Knowledge / experience of Azure cloud services and DevOps• Knowledge / experience of developing / leading solutions utilising Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning a plus• Experienced in remote sensing data analytics, including, satellite optical and radar imagery, aerial and mobile imagery, and LiDAR data useful• Advanced programming skills (JavaScript; Python; Arcade; C# in conjunction with ArcGIS API for example and other web frameworks, such as Cesium, AngularJS, Django) useful