GIS Specialist

Job Description

Job Title: NS GIS Specialist (Senior)
 

Location: Kildare, W23 X3PH
 

-         Candidates must be willing to work from this location.
 

-         Blended offsite/onsite working arrangement.
 

Contract Duration: 12 months with further extensions
 

No Of Positions: 1
 

Attendance Pattern:
 

·         Working within the island of Ireland is mandatory.
 

·         Minimum attendance of two days per week at the office.
 

·         Full-time, Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day (excluding breaks), between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
 

·         Excludes public holidays observed in the Republic of Ireland.
 

Mandatory Requirements (Pass/Fail)
 

ü  Experience Level: The candidate must have more than 7 years of relevant GIS experience at a senior level.
 

ü  Availability: The candidate must be available to commence work from 3rd November 2025.
 

ü  English Language Proficiency: The candidate must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
 

Key Deliverable:
The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.

The role of the GIS Specialist will include (but is not limited to) the following:
 

·         Provide on-going support for existing spatial solutions.
 

·         Lead the delivery of GIS projects; provide GIS training and support, liaising with stakeholders, including Senior Management.
 

·         Use of ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online.
 

·         Contribute towards the technical design of ESRI GIS applications.
 

·         Acting as a subject matter expert, advise on GIS systems, infrastructure, and environment design.
 

·         Provide user support and resolution of all types of GIS queries in partnership with ICT.
 

·         Create and maintain documentation on the ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise.
 

·         Keep up to date on GIS technology trends.
 

·         Ensure GIS technologies are kept up to date and coordinate and assist with technology upgrades.
 

Requirements

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:
 

The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.
 

·         Strong foundational knowledge of GIS concepts: Projections, Geometric Operations, Geospatial Analysis, and GIS database design.
 

·         Experience in ESRI ArcGIS suite of products.
 

·         Experience in FME software.
 

·         Experience of open source solutions such as QGIS, PostGres, and Geoserver.
 

·         Experience in the management (security, privacy, and sharing) and analysis of spatial data.
 

·         Experience in the management and analysis of raster data including aerial imagery, satellite, and drones.
 

·         Database development skills, preferably in Oracle or similar enterprise scale DBMS.
 

·         Experience in developing custom web mapping applications.
 

·         Experience with Python and JavaScript.
 

·         Experience in requirements gathering.
 

·         Experience of documenting technical specifications and workflows / processes.
 

·         Building complex data transformation workflows using FME, Python etc.
 

·         Project delivery methodologies, application development lifecycle and agile development model.