Technical GIS Project Manager

Technical GIS Project Manager#26-17597

$40-$45 per hour

Beach, FL

Onsite

Job Description

Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Technical GIS Project Manager for their Beach, FL/Houston, TX location.

Responsibilities:

The Technical GIS Project Manager is a full stack delivery leader accountable for the successful execution of enterprise GIS initiativesfrom solution definition and delivery through stabilization and operational readiness.

This role blends hands on ArcGIS Enterprise technical depth, program/project delivery ownership, and people and stakeholder management, ensuring GIS platforms and applications are delivered, operated, and evolved at scale.

The role owns outcomes, not just plans.

End to End Delivery Ownership:

Own full lifecycle delivery of ArcGIS Enterprise programs: design, build, migrate, upgrade, deploy, and transition to operations

Accountable for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and delivery outcomes

Manage delivery across application, platform, data, integrations, and infrastructure workstreams

Lead Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid execution models

Full Stack Technical & Platform Management:

Provide technical leadership across the entire GIS stack

ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal, Server, Data Stores)

Web GIS applications and services

GIS databases and data pipelines

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and DevOps pipelines

Partner with architects and engineers to drive solution decisions, trade offs, and standards

Oversee upgrades, performance, HA/DR, security, and platform optimization

Ensure solutions are built for operability, scalability, and long term maintainability

Operational & Managed Services Readiness:

Drive transition from project delivery to steady state operations or AMS

Assist in defining support models, SLAs, runbooks, and monitoring requirements

Coordinate incident, enhancement, and backlog management post go live

Act as escalation point for production issues impacting GIS platforms

Stakeholder, Team & Vendor Leadership:

Serve as primary delivery owner for clients and executive stakeholders

Translate business objectives into actionable technical delivery plans

Lead cross functional, onshore/offshore teams and third party vendors

Run governance forums, sprint ceremonies, design reviews, and exec reporting

Requirements:

8+ years in GIS delivery, technical program management, or platform leadership

5+ years owning delivery of ArcGIS Enterprise based solutions

Proven ownership of complex, multi team enterprise programs

Strong working knowledge of ArcGIS Enterprise & Web GIS

Experience with GIS databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)

Cloud exposure (Azure or AWS), DevOps tools, and release management

Working understanding of automation (Python/ArcPy) and integrations

Strong Agile delivery leadership (Scrum / SAFe / hybrid)

Comfortable operating across strategy, execution, and operations

Excellent stakeholder communication and decision making skills

Experience managing distributed and offshore delivery teams

ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes

PMP, Scrum Master, Esri or Cloud certifications

Top Skills: ArcGIS Enterprise, Kubernetes, Project Manager skills

Years of Experience: 8.00 Years of Experience

Skills:

Category Name Required Importance

Analytics ArcGIS Yes 1

NA Project Management Yes 1