Senior GIS Analyst

Job description / Role

Atkins geospatial and information management professionals provide a range of services from data acquisition, spatial analysis, information and data management, to systems design and integration. Our drive is to deliver innovative, quality solutions to our clients to enable them to use data to make well informed decisions in a user friendly and intuitive environment.

Atkins has been appointed the role of Planning and Integration Consultant for the Qatar Central Planning Office and have establish a project team in the client’s office. The remit is to coordinate the development of new and upgrading infrastructure in the country. The Atkins GIS team provide analysis and manipulation of a large amount of spatial data to support this and are currently looking for a Senior GIS analyst to join the project team in Doha.

Responsibilities

•Key contact for GIS within the project team.
•Completion of tasks received from the GIS Team Lead.
•Support the GIS Team Lead.
•Lead on discrete projects for other disciplines.
•Delegate tasks to GIS Analysts.
•Supervise and strengthen the skills of GIS Analysts.
•Support web based solutions using ArcGIS Server.
•Create spatial data to the required specification.
•Coordinate data with the CAD team.
•Integration of data from multiple sources into the spatial data repository.
•Analyse, interrogate and manipulate spatial and temporal data.
•Prepare plans & present data via appropriate media.
•Check for and adhere to CPO GIS procedures and standards.
•Check for and adhere to CPO document management procedures and standards.
•Check for and adhere to CPO project quality standards and procedures.
•Responsible for integrity, validity and quality assurance of data.
•Look for opportunities to promote GIS and information management processes to increase efficiency on the project.

Requirements

Qualifications

A degree qualification in GIS or a related field.

Essential Criteria

•10 years minimum relevant work experience.
•Experience using ESRI ArcGIS – minimum 5 years experience.
•Experience in the Administration of ArcGIS Server and SDE.
•Experience using at least two of the following ESRI ArcGIS extensions: 3D, Spatial, Network and Tracking Analyst.
•Experience with SQL Server 2008.
•Experience of providing GIS support to multidiscipline, client focused, project environments.
•Understanding of spatial data formats and spatial reference systems.
•Good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
•Proven experience of delivering to deadlines within pressurised environments.
•Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

Desirable Criteria

•Experience of working with and controlling a large number of evolving datasets.
•Experience using FME Desktop and Server.
•Experience with Silverlight.
•Experience with Javascript, Python, HTML and CSS.
•Experience with SQL (T-SQL and PL-SQL).
•Experience with SharePoint 2010.
•Experience using AutoCAD software (including Civil 3D and Map).
•Hands on experience of using CAD derived data within a GIS environment.

The Individual

•Ability to work individually as well as on a team.
•A strong work ethic.
•Excellent communication skills.
•Solid problem solving, decision-making, and creative thinking ability.
•Good communicator in the English language, both written and verbal, and with colleagues and clients.
Training

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).