Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UDC is seeking a full-time Senior GIS Consultant with experience configuring, deploying, and managing Esri's Utility Network integrations. The Senior GIS Consultant will provide delivery of high-quality advisory services to a broad portfolio of clients within the energy and utility industry.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall operational and technical leadership for various utility consulting programs
- Represent UDC to prospective and existing customers
- Work with utility personnel at all levels of the organization
- Facilitate presentations and conduct workshops to identify, define, and capture business and technical requirements and best practices
- Manage deliverables for the consulting projects, including use-case development, requirements gathering, and large-scale implementation strategy and road maps and reports
- Coordinate and monitor consulting projects from initiation through delivery
- Serve as liaison between UDC and the client to ensure all targets and requirements are met
- Decompose high-level business requirements and user requirements into functional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who base their work on the requirements
- Identify operational system interfaces, constraints, and other non-functional requirements
- Work individually or within a team on technology consulting projects to meet specific customer requirements
- Serve as a mentor to senior and entry-level consultants, developers, and engineers
- Coach, manage, and serve as a mentor to senior and entry level consultants, developers, and analysts
- Provide business development support to the sales team and account managers, including preparation and estimation of proposals for consulting and implementation projects
- Create business relationships and support sales generation with high-level contacts often through face-to-face and client site visits. Maintaining an ongoing business relationship with current clients to facilitate future sales
- Actively participate in thought leadership activities such as blogs, conferences, and public speaking opportunities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent utility and consulting work experience
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working in support of related utility consulting or large-scale process/technology projects
- Knowledge of electric, gas and/or water utilities
- Understanding of the Esri product suite, with emphasis desired in one or more of the following: Configuring, deploying, and managing ESRI's Utility Network model, Data model design and management, Designing and deploying ArcGIS applications through ArcGIS Online or Portal
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communications and customer relations skills
- Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity
- Ability to prioritize work assignments and shift work efforts based on the needs of the department or business goals
- Ability to work independently and be self-motivated
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Managerial and supervision skills
- Good understanding of utility business processes, including compliance, regulatory requirements, and field workflows
- Able to articulate the business needs around specific utility network models, including how commodities operate in the real world and the value of representing networks in GIS
Benefits
- Medical / Dental / Vision
- HSA
- 401K & Employer Match
- Paid time off (includes vacation and sick time)
- Parental Leave
- Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability (Employer Paid)
- Basic Term Life and AD&D (Employer Paid)
- Voluntary Term Life and AD&D
- Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
- Gym Reimbursement Program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Paid Volunteering Time
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