Lead GIS Analyst

Company Description

With a workforce of over 25,000 people, and opportunities in more than 1,000 different job categories, the City of Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the United States and one of the largest employers in Southeastern Pennsylvania. As an employer, the City of Philadelphia operates through the guiding principles of service, integrity, respect, accountability, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. Through these principles, we strive to effectively deliver services, to resolve the challenges facing our city, and to make Philadelphia a place where all of our residents have the opportunity to reach their potential.  

The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer. This position is within the CityGeo team of OIT led by the Chief Geographic Information Officer (GIO).  The CityGeo team manages enterprise GIS operations for the city including on-prem and cloud services, large scale technology and data contracts, and governance for geodata sharing and development standards.  CityGeo is performing some of the most innovative work in municipal government on data analytics, application development, use of imagery and management of governance and multi-departmental stakeholder collaboration

Job Description

Position Summary

The CityGeo team manages enterprise GIS operations for the city including on-prem and cloud services, large scale technology and data contracts, and governance for geodata sharing and development standards.  CityGeo is performing some of the most innovative work in municipal government on data analytics, application development, use of imagery, and management of governance and multi-departmental stakeholder collaboration.  

This Lead GIS Analyst position will join other analysts under supervision of the Deputy Geographic Information Officer (GIO) for Enterprise Projects, and be responsible for the creation, analysis, and maintenance of various spatial databases and applications with the use of the ArcGIS suite of desktop products, ArcGIS Online, and scripting tools. The Lead GIS Analyst will also publish web maps, design workflows, and build geo-processing tools/scripts using Python.  The analyst will take on projects to extract, evaluate, and visualize spatial and non-spatial data for business intelligence purposes and program performance measurement by departments.  This will include statistical analysis, developing metrics, and producing reports.  Some project management is included among the responsibilities of this position.

The candidate will support the Deputy GIO’s efforts to enforce data/mapping standards for the creation, management, and sharing of spatial and non-spatial data for business intelligence, project/program performance tracking, and public data releases.  The Lead Analyst will assist with the administration of the City’s main ArcGIS Online organization (PHLmaps) and ensure that internal wiki documentation on its use and that content and elements relating to the creation and management of profiles, groups, and enterprise and open data content are well maintained for the benefit of all city users.  The analyst will from time to time take on troubleshooting tasks to assist users in the enterprise with use of online and desktop GIS products.

Essential Functions

• Provide geospatial support to other city agencies including data development, analysis, on-line maps, ETL processes, and setup of field data collection apps.
• Query, analyze and prepare statistics on spatial and non-spatial data using GIS, SQL, Python and other tools.
• Prepare and execute workflows and automated routines using Python.
• Prepare and execute queries in spatial and non-spatial databases using SQL.
• Develop and maintain geospatial datasets.
• Complete metadata documentation of datasets and processes.
• Assist with administration of ArcGIS Online organizations for the city and maintain relevant user guides and training materials. 
• Coordination of some short- and long-term enterprise GIS projects by preparing and maintaining project status using Wrike, cloud-drives, written reports, and wiki documents.
• Create and maintain of web map applications/dashboards/hub sites/etc published via ArcGIS Online.
• Extract and analyze Census ACS data on demographics and related national or local datasets on health, education, crime, etc.
• Interact with analysts from other departments assigned to a specific project.
• Participate in meetings and events within department, city, and wider GIS user community.
• Occasionally conduct presentations on enterprise specific topics at meetings and conferences.
• Prepare and deliver presentations and/or training sessions related to mapping software, tools or procedures to C