Senior Lead GIS Analyst

Company Description

A best-in-class city that attracts best-in-class talent, Philadelphia is an incredible place to build a career. From our thriving arts scene and rich history to our culture of passion and grit, there are countless reasons to love living and working here. With a workforce of over 30,000 people, and more than 1,000 different job categories, the City of Philadelphia offers boundless opportunities to make an impact. 
As an employer, the City of Philadelphia values inclusion, integrity, innovation, empowerment, and hard work above all else. We offer a vibrant work environment, comprehensive health care and benefits, and the experience you need to grow and excel. If you’re interested in working with a passionate team of people who care about the future of Philadelphia, start here.
What We Offer:
•    Impact - The work you do here matters to millions. 
•    Growth - Philadelphia is growing, why not grow with it? 
•    Diversity & Inclusion - Find a career in a place where everyone belongs.
•    Benefits - We care about your well-being.
 

The Office of the Philadelphia City Commissioners is principally responsible for setting and enforcing department policies to administer voter registration and conduct elections in accordance with federal and state voter registration and election laws. The three-member, bipartisan board of elected officials oversee elections and voter registration for the City of Philadelphia. Each Commissioner is elected to serve a four-year term that coincides with the municipal election cycle for Mayor and City Council. This position report directly to the Sr. Project Manager.

Job Description

The Senior Lead GIS Analyst is responsible for organizing and executing GIS projects for analysis, mobile field data collection, data development, predictive analytics, scripting, and data modeling.  The work is conducted with both spatial and non-spatial databases using the ArcGIS suite of desktop products, ArcGIS Online/Portal and associated programs.  Primary responsibilities will focus on preparing spatial analyses, data creation, application development, coding, and data extraction/transformation/integrations to support business intelligence needs and measure organizational performance.  This work will include statistical analysis, predictive analysis, developing metrics using python, -R, Excel, and other related GIS tools. The Senior Lead GIS Analyst is also responsible for administering enterprise platforms, such as ArcGIS Online.

The Senior Lead GIS Analyst will manage complex projects; and may supervise the day-to-day work of multiple lead or associate GIS analysts at the Office of the Philadelphia Commissioners.  Supervisory tasks may include mentoring, managing, and developing methodologies and tasks for associate staff to execute.

The candidate will support the efforts to enforce data standards for the creation, management, and sharing of spatial and non-spatial data for business intelligence, project/program performance tracking, and public open data publishing.

Essential Functions
•    Develop and maintain geospatial datasets.
•    Develop Extraction Transform and Load (ETL) scripts using Python.
•    Perform predictive analytics, reporting and visualization of City data.
•    Query, analyze and prepare statistics on spatial and non-spatial data using GIS, Excel, -R and other tools.
•    Complete metadata documentation of datasets and processes.
•    Create and maintain of web map applications published via ArcGIS Online/Portal.
•    Prepare and execute workflows and automated routines using Python and ModelBuilder.
•    Prepare and execute queries in spatial and non-spatial databases using SQL.
•    Serve as Subject Matter Expert to assist City agencies GIS needs through consultation and training.
•    Interact with city departments, GIS managers and analytical staff on data sharing, ETL and other joint projects.
•    Participate in meetings and events within department, city and wider GIS user community.
•    Prepare and conduct presentations at departmental meetings, trainings and select conferences.
•    Provide supervision of subordinate, intern or Co-op employees.
•    Administrate enterprise platforms and tools (ArcGIS Online, Confluence, etc)
•    Organize and lead team projects and initiatives.

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Required:
•    Proficiency in database management: create, edit, update, join, append and query data from spatial and non-spatial relational databases.
•    Experience with data visualization and graphics tools for the creation of professional presentations reports, web content, or education materials.
•    Experience authoring complex Python scripts and creating models in ArcGIS ModelBuilder for automation of routines and geoprocesses.
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