Job ID: 37183
Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Services Delivery
Work Location: Corporate Office Building (Hydro), 18 Dyas Road
Job Type & Duration: Full-time, 2 Temporary (12 month) vacancies
Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $52.92 - $58.00, TFS390, Wage Grade 17
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
Affiliation: L79 Full-time
Number of Positions Open: 2
Posting Period: 24-JUL-2023 to 08-AUG-2023
Major Responsibilities:
- Coordinates, designs, develops, implements, configures, sustains, documents and reviews geospatial information systems.
- Provides day to day support of geospatial information initiatives including unit and integration testing, documentation, installation, support and archival of project environments.
- Undertakes quality reviews for geospatial solutions and information assets.
- Participates in design and evaluation sessions of spatial data structures and spatially enabled applications with objectives to promote integration with existing geospatial information assets and tools and to ensure adherence to standards.
- Assists business units in selecting and implementing appropriate geospatial technology and procedures to best serve their needs by researching and recommending viable options.
- Reviews current applications and "off the shelf" software products and makes recommendations for usage.
- Analyzes business and Information Technology issues as they pertain to the use of geospatial information and technology. Provides integration options as appropriate.
- Transfers geospatial technology knowledge to groups well versed in the field and to groups new to the field.
- Maintains an up to date knowledge of both the current and planned GIS platforms and development environments.
- Maintains an up to date understanding of City information and technology platforms and applies this understanding to enhance geospatial information and technology usage for various business units.
- Promotes geospatial information and technology through presentations and/or written descriptions to groups with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Participates in geospatial information and technology project teams as requested and provides advice to team members.
Key Qualifications:
- Extensive administrative experience and/or development with SQL DBs, preferably Oracle with Spatial and PostgreSQL, and PostGIS.
- Extensive technical experience specific to spatial data management, enterprise GIS software (preferably Esri ArcGIS with enterprise level Geodatabase), geospatial (processing) services development, and business process integration with various geospatial data sources.
- Extensive administrative experience and/or development experience working with Esri technology stack, including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Online in a complex enterprise technology environment requiring high availability and scalability
- Considerable experience in Python programming for geospatial data automation, analysis, and tool development.
- Experience in designing and implementing high-availability architectures
- Experience with DevOps practices and automation techniques for serverless architectures, including infrastructure-as-code tools and continuous deployment processes.
- Experience in deploying ArcGIS Enterprise on a serverless environment
You must also have:
- Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, data processing, and analytics tools relevant to geospatial data.
- Knowledge of designing and implementing high-availability architectures for Esri Server and Enterprise in the cloud, including load balancing, failover mechanisms, and auto-scaling capabilities to ensure optimal performance and availability.
- Ability to analyze user requirements, recommend solutions, and clearly communicate the means of geospatial technologies.
- Demonstrated efficiency and effectiveness in teamwork, facilitation, communications, conflict resolution, problem solving, incident management and team leadership in projects, assignments and service engagements, particularly in dealing with a complex technical environment.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills and an aptitude to work independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Demonstrated business acumen to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with clients and vendors, representing strong customer service orientation.
- Demonstrated software development discipline using source code control and system development life cycle methodologies.
- Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required.
- Ability to be on call for support of production systems, as required.
- Ability to travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as required.
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