Senior GIS Project Manager
*This is a hybrid position
Description:
- The Infrastructure and Economic Development (IED) Delivery Center is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior GIS Project Manager to lead enterprise-level geospatial initiatives at the client.
- This position plays a critical leadership role in the planning coordination and execution of geospatial projects that enhance infrastructure management initiatives throughout Pennsylvania.
- The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep geospatial expertise project management acumen and a commitment to innovation delivering modern GIS solutions that drive interagency efficiency and public service improvements.
Responsibilities:
Enterprise Project Management:
- Define project charters deliverables budgets and schedules in alignment with Commonwealth and agency priorities.
- Manage agency teams and vendor resources to deliver complex GIS projects on time and within scope.
- Ensure alignment with IED Delivery Center agency and OA strategic priorities enterprise GIS roadmaps and security/compliance standards.
- Facilitate requirements for workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Translate business needs into geospatial system requirements including technical specifications data workflows service configurations and interface definitions.
- Produce succinct status reports dashboards and presentations.
ArcGIS Enterprise Integration support:
- Coordinate tasks related to ArcGIS Enterprise deployment upgrades configuration service publishing and system integration.
- Create and manage requirements traceability matrices linking requirements to design testing and acceptance.
Stakeholder Engagement Client Management:
- Liaise with program offices Commonwealth agencies and vendors to understand business requirements and deliver geospatial solutions that meet mission needs.
- Facilitate stakeholder communication reporting and change management throughout project lifecycles.
Testing Strategy Coordination Quality Assurance:
- Oversee test execution across environments and ensure defects are tracked triaged and resolved.
- Guarantee digital accessibility testing is performed and addressed to meet Commonwealth standards for GIS products.
- Validate system performance data integrity service reliability map rendering performance and API response behavior.
- Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing with program area SMEs.
Impact of the Position:
- This role ensures the successful delivery of highly technical enterprise-scale geospatial systems that support operations planning emergency response and infrastructure management across the Commonwealth.
- By combining strong project leadership with deep geospatial domain expertise the Senior Technical Geospatial Project Manager drives system reliability data quality and innovation across the IED Delivery Center.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Experience supporting or managing projects in ArcGIS Enterprise–based systems and geospatial applications., Required 3 Years
- Project management with multi-team IT coordination responsibilities., Required
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud concepts, web GIS development, and DevOps workflows., Required
- Proven ability to write, maintain, and organize detailed technical documentation., Required
- Demonstrated experience with structured testing methodologies and test management tools., Required
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and team leadership skills Knowledge of GIS integrations., Required
- Comfort navigating multi-agency governance and IT prioritization processes, Required
- PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile/Scrum Master or similar certification., Highly desired
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