GIS Team Lead

Job description

Avanceon is seeking a GIS Team Lead / Senior GIS Engineer in Doha to lead the design, administration, support and enhancement of an ESRI GIS platform across a multi-server environment. The role owns the overall GIS technical landscape and is accountable for system availability, performance, security, integration and delivery of GIS services to business and operational stakeholders.

The successful candidate provides both technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for GIS applications, servers, databases, web services and integrations with enterprise platforms, and coordinates with internal teams, vendors and project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the GIS team in the implementation, operation and support of enterprise GIS solutions
• Provide technical guidance to GIS engineers, analysts, developers and support staff
• Review solution designs, configurations and change requests related to GIS systems
• Administer and maintain the ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise environment, including ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, Web Adaptor, Data Store and ArcGIS Pro
• Manage GIS deployments across development, test, staging and production servers
• Monitor server health, availability, performance and storage utilization
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade and troubleshoot ESRI software components
• Ensure system resilience, backup, recovery and business continuity readiness
• Manage enterprise geodatabases and support SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle platforms
• Support integration between ESRI GIS and enterprise platforms such as SCADA, asset management systems and third-party APIs
• Publish and maintain map services, feature services, geoprocessing services and web applications
• Implement GIS security best practices, including user roles, permissions, authentication and secure publishing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geomatics, Geography, Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field
• Minimum 7-10 years of GIS experience for Team Lead level
• Strong hands-on experience with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise in a multi-server environment
• Proven experience in GIS system administration, configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with enterprise geodatabases and spatial data management
• Good understanding of Windows Server administration and enterprise infrastructure concepts
• Experience with IIS, Web Adaptors, SSL certificates and web-based GIS publishing
• Strong documentation, communication and stakeholder management skills
• ESRI technical certifications are highly preferred

Skills

• ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Server
• Geodatabase
• IIS
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• Windows Server