Geospatial Development Leader

🔥 22 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗺️ GIS

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201 - 500 employees

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Construction • Healthcare • Environment

True Environmental is a leading consulting, engineering, and construction management firm dedicated to providing environmentally focused and digitally powered solutions to create safer, healthier, and more resilient environments. The company specializes in a wide range of services including environmental consulting, engineering, water management, and remediation, helping businesses and organizations tackle complex environmental challenges. With a commitment to sustainability and community improvement, True Environmental partners with various sectors to deliver innovative solutions and improve overall environmental quality.

📋 Description

• Act as the U.S. technical lead for geospatial and digital solutions across six practice groups. • Partner with practices to map workflows, identify spatial-data and automation opportunities, and prioritize development work. • Establish firm-wide standards for geodatabase design, metadata, data governance, QA/QC, and deliverable formats. • Coordinate with digital technology leaders in Canada to align platforms and share tools. • Review geospatial deliverables and provide digital-scope input for proposals. • Design and build enterprise geodatabases, web-mapping applications, custom dashboards, and digital-twin platforms. • Develop analytical tools and workflows for recurring project needs, including modeling, visualization, routing, and regulatory reporting. • Build and maintain field data collection applications and data pipelines. • Integrate IoT, AIS, weather, environmental, bathymetric, and LiDAR data sources. • Automate workflows using Python, SQL, JavaScript, ModelBuilder, and FME; convert legacy data into spatially enabled databases. • Evaluate and pilot GeoAI, LLM-assisted tools, automated change detection, open-source geospatial stacks, cloud deployment, and immersive/XR visualization. • Direct reality-capture programs involving LiDAR, sonar, UAS photogrammetry, and inspection. • Identify project-built tools suitable for reusable firm assets or client-facing products. • Represent the firm to clients and at conferences, user groups, and professional associations. • Develop SOPs, tutorials, and training programs. • Mentor GIS analysts and developers across practices without direct line management. • Report to the Chief Operating Officer and work in a matrixed relationship with practice leads.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geospatial Science, Environmental Science/Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. • Authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship. • 20+ years of progressive geospatial and application-development experience, with substantial time as technical lead on multidisciplinary projects in an environmental, engineering, AEC, or public-sector setting. • GISP certification (or ability to obtain within 12 months). • Deep expertise in the Esri platform: ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Server, ArcGIS Online, Experience Builder, Survey123, Field Maps, 3D/Spatial Analyst. • Proven development skills: Python, SQL (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server), JavaScript (Esri JS API, Leaflet, Node.js), and relational database design. • Demonstrated track record of building web applications, dashboards, and enterprise GIS infrastructure that measurably improved delivery efficiency or client decision-making. • Experience integrating field data collection platforms with enterprise geodatabases and downstream modeling or reporting tools. • Ability to work across disciplines: elicit requirements from non-GIS staff, explain technical trade-offs clearly, and deliver tools people actually adopt. • Comfortable presenting to clients, agencies, and industry audiences. • Preferred: Experience developing digital-twin or asset-management platforms integrating point clouds, BIM, and inspection data. • Preferred: Hands-on reality-capture experience: LiDAR, bathymetric/sonar survey, UAS operations (FAA Part 107), photogrammetry, 3D modeling. • Preferred: Open-source geospatial and cloud experience (QGIS, MapServer, GeoServer, PostGIS; Azure or AWS). • Preferred: Experience applying AI/ML or LLM-assisted tooling to geospatial data compilation, defect detection, or metadata generation. • Preferred: Integration experience with EAM/BIM platforms (e.g., Maximo, Autodesk Forma) and CAD/MicroStation conversion via FME. • Preferred: Experience with 3D visualization, immersive/XR, or interactive training content for stakeholder engagement. • Preferred: Experience working across distributed, multi-office, or cross-border teams.

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