Senior GIS Consultant
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis are currently looking to recruit a Senior GIS Consultant to join the Geospatial, Data and Visualisation team in our UK Environmental Sector. You will take on a key role within the team, providing mapping support, geospatial intelligence, and data analysis.
You will provide geospatial expertise to a range of projects for both internal and external clients. Working on a variety of projects with a focus on environmental aspects, including large infrastructure studies, you will develop processes and tools which support data driven decision making. You will need to establish strong relationships with internal project managers and technical leads in the wider Business Sectors. Identification and development of internal & external geospatial business opportunities will also be expected.
Role accountabilities:
- Acting as a trusted advisor to colleagues and clients on the application of geospatial technologies and techniques
- Managing the delivery of GIS tasks, including map production and spatial analysis, ensuring quality and compliance with project requirements
- Data management, including digital data capture, analysis, and validation
- Designing and building web GIS applications, dashboards, and other digital products
- Supporting business development, bid preparation, and client relationship management
- Applying and promoting GIS and data management best practice, quality assurance, and professional standards
- Identifying innovative applications of GIS, data science, AI, and automation to improve processes and outputs
- Providing leadership and technical advice to junior project team members
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and attention to detail, with a particular focus on professional cartographic and visualisation standards
Qualifications & Experience:
- Advanced use of ArcGIS Pro for data management, analysis and map production
- Demonstrable experience delivering GIS consultancy services within multidisciplinary project teams, including ecologists, environmental planners and designers
- Experience developing and configuring web mapping applications, dashboards and data collection solutions
- Experience working with environmental, ecological or planning datasets and associated data standards
- Working knowledge of ArcGIS Enterprise (Server, ArcSDE, Portal for ArcGIS, Datastore) and/or ArcGIS Online
- Experience in mobile applications such as ESRI Field Maps, Survey 123 or QField
- Desirable: Experience of creating processes for calculation of environmental metrics (e.g. Biodiversity Net Gain)
- Desirable: Experience with ESRI Model Builder or FME
- Desirable: Experience developing automation workflows using Python and ArcPy
- Desirable: Experience of Remote Sensing/Earth Observation techniques
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You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
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