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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior GIS Database Developer to join our team! In this role you will get to develop and manage complex geographic information system (GIS).

What You'll Be Doing:

• Oversees various GIS functionalities, practices, and procedures, providing technical and non-technical expertise and guidance.
• Develops custom GIS applications to support team in determining solutions to identified spatial problems.
• Supervises GIS production for programs and projects. Leads systems and software, oversees tracking, utilization and maintenance, coordinates designing, developing, and implementing GIS tools, checks teams GIS deliverables and tasks, and guides staff to produce well-organized and accurate GIS deliverables.
• Coordinates and oversees the development of standards and best practices for geospatial data management including the usage of workbenches for transforming and converting geospatial data. Provides expertise in developing model builders and customized tools for geospatial tasks and updates geospatial databases to achieve data accuracy and integrity.
• Coordinates the production of scaled maps with cartographic designs.
• Provides guidance in the preparation of data model structures to accurately represent geographic features and spatial relationships.
• Provides direction in defining data types, relationships, constraints, and indexes.
• Coordinates the preparation, review, and execution of GIS implementation/management plans at the Sector level across all programs/projects.
• Coordinates and oversees the accuracy and integrity of geospatial data. Coordinates effective data analysis, geoprocessing techniques, geographical problem solving, format/structure transformation, data cleaning, and completeness.
• Coordinates and oversees the development of standards and best practices for geospatial data management including the usage of workbenches for transforming and converting geospatial data, provides expertise in developing model builders and customized tools for geospatial tasks, and updates geospatial databases to achieve data accuracy and integrity.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in GIS, Geography, Geomatics, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
• 15+ years related work experience
• Advanced understanding of various hardware and software used in GIS, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Building Information Management (BIM) Advanced knowledge, awareness and understanding of GIS software/database packages including tool deployment processes, troubleshooting, hardware and software, and creating efficient workflows, processes, and principles.
• Advanced understanding and application of Quality Assurance /Quality Control standard practices and procedures.
• Expert developer in automating tasks, customizing functionalities, and performing complex spatial analyses with effective skill using programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Able to draft special provisions for GIS requirements on a program/project following international standards and specifications for geographical information services including map production, digital mapping, spatial analysis/modeling, and spatial dataset manipulation.

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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