Gis Analyst

Strathcona County is seeking an intermediate GIS Analyst to join the team supporting our enterprise GIS environment. Responsibilities include supporting the ongoing development, administration, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of a municipal-wide Enterprise GIS to a growing number of internal and external GIS users of desktop and web-based GIS, asset management and mobile GIS technology. This is a challenging and rewarding position where learning and collaboration are encouraged.

This posting is for one full-time permanent position.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of the County’s Enterprise GIS System
- Deliver on client operational GIS service requests and resolve system incidents in a timely manner
- Ensure County department users are well supported and productive in their use of County Geospatial technology
- Identify new services or service improvements (innovations) that better respond to the evolving needs of the business
- Support the mission of the GIS team by providing leadership and maintaining and sharing high level technical knowledge
- Provide on-call first level support to the Emergency Operations Center prior to, during and after an emergent event

**Qualifications**:

- A university degree in GIS or Geography or Computer Science; or a related two-year diploma in GIS with a minimum of five years of related GIS experience.
- Proficiency with ESRI ArcGIS Suite of tools including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise, and ArcGIS Online.
- Proficiency with ESRI Geodatabase data format, ArcGIS data models, FME Desktop and FME Server.
- Proficiency with MS SQL Server, MS Office Productivity tools, MS Project, MS Visio.
- Extensive knowledge of the principles and practices of GIS, spatial analysis, and cartography.
- Experience with Web mapping platforms (VertiGIS) is desired.
- Experience with Web API’s (ArcGIS API for JavaScript / ArcGIS API for Python) is desired.
- Experience with ArcGIS Arcade is desired.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong presentation skills.
- Excellent logical and analytical thinking. Solid business acumen with the ability to understand problems and identify solutions.
- Business analysis and project management training or experience, GISP Certification or ESRI Certification are assets.
- Proven leadership and organizational skills.

This position is hybrid working 2 days in the office and 3 days at home.

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies for similar positions within the next 6 months.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $75,639.20-$94,567.20 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sherwood Park, AB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- surveying: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sherwood Park, AB