GIS Team Lead

Overview

GIS Team Lead / Senior GIS Engineer

Technical Leadership

• Lead the GIS team in the implementation, operation, and support of enterprise GIS solutions.
• Provide technical guidance to GIS engineers, analysts, developers, and support staff.
• Review solution designs, configurations, and change requests related to GIS systems.
• Act as the main technical focal point for GIS-related project activities.

ESRI Platform Administration

• Administer and maintain

ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise

• environment, including:
• ArcGIS Server
• Portal for ArcGIS

• ArcGIS Data Store

• ArcGIS Pro
• ArcGIS Desktop, where applicable
• Manage GIS deployments across
• multiple servers
• in development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Monitor server health, availability, performance, and storage utilization.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot ESRI software components.
• Ensure system resilience, backup, recovery, and business continuity readiness.

Infrastructure and System Management

• Support GIS infrastructure hosted on physical or virtual servers.
• Coordinate with IT teams for server provisioning, network configuration, firewall rules, DNS, certificates, and access management.
• Manage high availability, load balancing, and multi-machine GIS deployments where applicable.
• Optimize system performance and reliability across distributed GIS services.

Database and Data Management

• Manage enterprise geodatabases and GIS-related databases.
• Support database platforms such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle, depending on project environment.
• Ensure GIS data integrity, consistency, versioning, backup, and synchronization.

Integration and Application Support

• Support integration between ESRI GIS systems and enterprise platforms such as:
• SCADA
• Asset Management systems
• APIs and third-party applications
• Publish and maintain map services, feature services, geoprocessing services, and web applications.
• Support web GIS solutions, dashboards, and custom GIS interfaces.
• Troubleshoot application issues, service failures, and integration problems.
• Security and Compliance
• Implement GIS security best practices, including user roles, permissions, authentication, and secure publishing.
• Support integration with enterprise identity management solutions such as Active Directory or SSO. .

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in

GIS, Geomatics, Geography, Computer Science, Engineering, IT

• , or related field.
• Minimum
• 7 10 years
• of GIS experience for Team Lead level
• Strong hands-on experience with

ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise

• in a multi-server environment.
• Proven experience in GIS system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with enterprise geodatabases and spatial data management.
• Good understanding of Windows Server administration and enterprise infrastructure concepts.
• Experience with IIS, Web Adaptors, SSL certificates, and web-based GIS publishing.
• Strong knowledge of GIS service deployment, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Experience in system integration and support of enterprise applications.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• ESRI technical certifications are highly preferred.
• Experience with

ArcGIS Monitor

ArcGIS Image Server

ArcGIS GeoEvent Server

• is an advantage.
• Experience with scripting or automation using

JavaScript

• Familiarity with cloud, virtualization, backup, and DR concepts.
• Experience in large-scale government, utility, infrastructure, smart city, or transport projects.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity practices for enterprise application environments.