Job Description :Client is looking for GIS Technical Advisor at Manitoba .

Must Have Primary Skills :

• Degree or diploma in Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Geomatics, Spatial Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field.
• GISP (Geographic Information Systems Professional) accreditation is preferred.
• Up to 10 years demonstrated experience as a GIS Architect or GIS Developer, with hands on involvement in GIS/SDI implementations or major system upgrades.
• Provide guidance on out-of-the-box configuration versus customisation, promoting maintainable, sustainable solutions appropriate for government environments.
• Review vendor deliverables and technical designs to ensure they meet agreed GIS and spatial analysis requirements.
• Advise on approaches for migrating geospatial data from legacy GIS systems, including data cleansing, transformation, validation, and quality control.
• Identify risks associated with legacy data structures, formats, and inconsistencies, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support testing and validation of migrated data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and usability in the new GIS environment.
• Perform or advise on spatial analysis and mapping requirements needed to validate solution capabilities and support business use cases.
• Translate technical GIS concepts into clear guidance for project team members, decision-makers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of technical documentation, standards, and knowledge transfer materials to support transition to operations.
• Ensure GIS implementation activities align with data governance, security, and quality standards applicable in a public-sector environment.
• Support the establishment of GIS best practices, processes, and controls to reduce technical debt and operational risk.scale SDI initiatives, preferably involving replacement of legacy systems.
• Strong working knowledge of commercial and open-source GIS platforms (e.g., ESRI ArcGIS or equivalent).
• Experience designing GIS and SDI architectures using ArcGIS Enterprise within government security and privacy constraints.

Nice To Have Secondary Skills :
•Provide expert GIS architecture and technical input during project initiation and planning, including scope definition, assumptions, constraints, risks, and dependencies related to GIS technologies and data.
•Support the development and review of project artefacts such as technical approaches, architecture inputs, implementation strategies, and migration plans.
•Advise on options for replacing legacy enterprise/geocortex GIS systems, including assessment of platform capabilities, integration considerations, and technical feasibility.
•Advise on the design and configuration of the target GIS solution, ensuring alignment with business needs, project objectives, and enterprise standards.
•Support the definition of GIS data models, layers, metadata standards, and quality requirements for the new system.
•Provide guidance on out-of-the-box configuration versus customisation, promoting maintainable, sustainable solutions appropriate for government environments.
•Review vendor deliverables and technical designs to ensure they meet agreed GIS and spatial analysis requirements.
•Advise on approaches for migrating geospatial data from legacy GIS systems, including data cleansing, transformation, validation, and quality control.
•Identify risks associated with legacy data structures, formats, and inconsistencies, and recommend mitigation strategies.
•Support testing and validation of migrated data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and usability in the new GIS environment.
•Perform or advise on spatial analysis and mapping requirements needed to validate solution capabilities and support business use cases.
•Translate technical GIS concepts into clear guidance for project team members, decision-makers, and non-technical stakeholders.
•Contribute to the development of technical documentation, standards, and knowledge transfer materials to support transition to operations.
•Ensure GIS implementation activities align with data governance, security, and quality standards applicable in a public-sector environment.
•Support the establishment of GIS best practices, processes, and controls to reduce technical debt and operational risk.

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