GIS Support Engineer / New York, NY 12 Months Contract
Apply NowCompany: Suncap Technology, Inc.
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Location : New York, NY
This position provides support to our Gas Transmission and Distribution, Electric Distribution & Steam departments, and other users throughout the company. In this role, the Candidate will work with the GIS team to enhance, support, and maintain the legacy GIS application suite NetDVD, Smart Layout, EDFIS, and NetMap, and SOMIS as well as new eGIS mapping applications.
Provide technical support to mapping modernization projects eGIS Phase 1, 2, and 3 including activities: transfer data, data clean-up, triage issues, resolving incidents, design, custom code/scripting and implement solutions to resolve special needs
Support Change Management & Release Management activities.
Business Relationships and Management: Coaches and influences business managers in technology decisions. Engage with internal and external partners regularly to overcome blockers and develop efficient and widely usable products. Understands and anticipates the needs and requirements of business partners. Prepares and conducts regular status updates on moderate sized projects.
Vendor Management: Effectively develop, manage, and strengthen vendor relationships to align vendor products and services with business and IT objectives.
Decision Making: Provides guidance and develops alternatives and recommendations. Gains support for recommendations.
People Leadership: Manages employees and contractors. Provides regular development feedback. Lead IT team and work with cross-functional teams to achieve all project goals. Coach and technically train new team members.
Operations: Manages incidents including timely and relevant communication. Triage problems, remediate, analyze root cause, and implement incident prevention using techniques such as Human Performance Improvement.
Performance Improvement: Leads significant portion of IT process improvement teams. Ability to analyze, Client, and recommend opportunities for systems or process improvements.
Communications and Change Management: Communicates effectively across multiple stakeholder groups to influence project outcomes and steer towards enterprise goals. Proactively engages leadership at the manager and general manager levels. Partners on delivering successes and managing challenges early. Solicits and implements feedback. Manages change proactively.
Perform other related tasks and assignments as required.
Skills & Requirements
Must be able to plan, organize and lead meetings. Must be able to translate functional to technical information. Must be able to develop documentation that will be consumed by users of diverse backgrounds and skills. Required
Must have excellent work ethics and integrity. Required
Must have ability to learn new technology as required for the job using documentation and other available resources. Required
Flexibility to work on multiple assignments with changing priorities and stay on schedule/on budget. Required
Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems is a must. Required
Experiences and knowledge of ConEd legacy mapping applications NetDVD, Smart Layout, EDFIS, and NetMap, and SOMIS are a must, required
Experiences and knowledge of Bentley MicroStation applications are a must, required.
Experiences and knowledge on ConEd Secondary, Primary, and C&DO network assets are a must, required.
ESRI-ArcGIS technologies/product suite is a plus. Preferred
Experience on SQL queries and Oracle is a must, Required.
Exposure to design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate. Required
Exposure to methods relating to application design, software development, and automated testing. Required
Practical understanding of object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages. Required
Understanding of Waterfall, Agile or other rapid application development methods. Preferred
Experience in writing test suites (e.g. unit, snapshot, integration, end-to-end) is a plus. Preferred
Experience developing RESTful web services is a plus. Preferred
Formal training in Project Management is a plus. Preferred
Formal Project Management and/or Business Analysis skills a plus. Preferred
Experience implementing packaged software a plus. Preferred
The following are not required for this position but would be considered as a valuable asset in a potential candidate.
Demonstrated analytical skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated problem solving skills
Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills
Excellent collaboration and team building skills
Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.
This position provides support to our Gas Transmission and Distribution, Electric Distribution & Steam departments, and other users throughout the company. In this role, the Candidate will work with the GIS team to enhance, support, and maintain the legacy GIS application suite NetDVD, Smart Layout, EDFIS, and NetMap, and SOMIS as well as new eGIS mapping applications.
Provide technical support to mapping modernization projects eGIS Phase 1, 2, and 3 including activities: transfer data, data clean-up, triage issues, resolving incidents, design, custom code/scripting and implement solutions to resolve special needs
Support Change Management & Release Management activities.
Business Relationships and Management: Coaches and influences business managers in technology decisions. Engage with internal and external partners regularly to overcome blockers and develop efficient and widely usable products. Understands and anticipates the needs and requirements of business partners. Prepares and conducts regular status updates on moderate sized projects.
Vendor Management: Effectively develop, manage, and strengthen vendor relationships to align vendor products and services with business and IT objectives.
Decision Making: Provides guidance and develops alternatives and recommendations. Gains support for recommendations.
People Leadership: Manages employees and contractors. Provides regular development feedback. Lead IT team and work with cross-functional teams to achieve all project goals. Coach and technically train new team members.
Operations: Manages incidents including timely and relevant communication. Triage problems, remediate, analyze root cause, and implement incident prevention using techniques such as Human Performance Improvement.
Performance Improvement: Leads significant portion of IT process improvement teams. Ability to analyze, Client, and recommend opportunities for systems or process improvements.
Communications and Change Management: Communicates effectively across multiple stakeholder groups to influence project outcomes and steer towards enterprise goals. Proactively engages leadership at the manager and general manager levels. Partners on delivering successes and managing challenges early. Solicits and implements feedback. Manages change proactively.
Perform other related tasks and assignments as required.
Skills & Requirements
Must be able to plan, organize and lead meetings. Must be able to translate functional to technical information. Must be able to develop documentation that will be consumed by users of diverse backgrounds and skills. Required
Must have excellent work ethics and integrity. Required
Must have ability to learn new technology as required for the job using documentation and other available resources. Required
Flexibility to work on multiple assignments with changing priorities and stay on schedule/on budget. Required
Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems is a must. Required
Experiences and knowledge of ConEd legacy mapping applications NetDVD, Smart Layout, EDFIS, and NetMap, and SOMIS are a must, required
Experiences and knowledge of Bentley MicroStation applications are a must, required.
Experiences and knowledge on ConEd Secondary, Primary, and C&DO network assets are a must, required.
ESRI-ArcGIS technologies/product suite is a plus. Preferred
Experience on SQL queries and Oracle is a must, Required.
Exposure to design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate. Required
Exposure to methods relating to application design, software development, and automated testing. Required
Practical understanding of object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages. Required
Understanding of Waterfall, Agile or other rapid application development methods. Preferred
Experience in writing test suites (e.g. unit, snapshot, integration, end-to-end) is a plus. Preferred
Experience developing RESTful web services is a plus. Preferred
Formal training in Project Management is a plus. Preferred
Formal Project Management and/or Business Analysis skills a plus. Preferred
Experience implementing packaged software a plus. Preferred
The following are not required for this position but would be considered as a valuable asset in a potential candidate.
Demonstrated analytical skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated problem solving skills
Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills
Excellent collaboration and team building skills
Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.