Organization: ESRI
Location: Redlands, CA
Application Deadline:
Posted: 2009-05-05
The Opportunity:
Use your consulting and project management experience in the land management and land records market to support our users with the implementation of solutions throughout the entire life cycle–from requirements to rollout. Our projects range from small focused technology transfer to large enterprise implementations of mission-critical systems.
Department
Consulting Services
The Team:
A career on the ESRI Professional Services and Consulting team provides you the opportunity to collaborate with our customers to support innovative database and applications development, SOA, and enterprise software solutions. The variety of project work enables you to use your software development, database engineering, GIS expertise, and project management skills in a number of growing markets such as natural resources, commercial, government, utilities, and defense. Most positions are based at our headquarters in Redlands, California and our regional office in Washington, D.C.; however, opportunities are also available in other locations.
Responsibilities:
- Help clients translate and implement real-world needs into practical, state-of-the-art, GIS technology-driven solutions using our enterprise GIS technology.
- Work with clients to prepare multi-year GIS implementation and migration strategies.
- Lead project teams during requirements, analysis, design, build, and rollout.
- Create and manage the scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables through the application of planning, tracking, quality assurance, change control, and risk management.
- Manage subcontractors.
- Manage client relationship and expectations.
- Work with the ESRI marketing and sales teams to develop new business.
Requirements:
- Bachelors, masters, or Ph.D. in relevant field, depending upon position level.
- Two to three years of experience for entry-level positions, eight to 12+ years of significant proven experience for senior positions.
- Public or private sector experience with survey and land records, land management, and land information systems data and technology.
- Ability to lead and manage consulting and software development teams.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies.
- Ability to develop project designs, work plans, budgets, and schedules.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply GIS technologies.
- Experience with desktop, client/server, and Internet applications and architectures.
- Strong team skills and the ability to work independently.
- Excellent interpersonal, writing, presentation, and leadership skills.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Experience with ESRI products to solve complex business problems.
- Familiarity with RDBMS and geodatabase design using UML.
- Experience with the PLSS and metes and bounds, survey data, and technology.
- Experience with forest management systems.
The Company:
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. We develop and support innovative tools for visualizing, analyzing, and managing geographic data on the desktop, on a server, across the enterprise, in a mobile environment, and on the Web. With annual revenues of $660 million and our software used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide, ESRI is the market leader in GIS.
ESRI employs 2,700 people in the U.S., 1,900 of whom are based at our Redlands headquarters, a community ideally located in Southern California. We offer exceptional benefits, competitive salaries, 401(k) and profit sharing programs, scholarships, tuition assistance, a Cafe complete with Starbucks coffee bar, an onsite fitness center, and much more.
Learn more about a career in GIS Services at ESRI and apply online at www.esri.com/careers/consulting.
ESRI is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) supporting diversity in the workforce.