Our client is seeking a Program Manager to lead a robust geospatial solutions group. This team offers geospatial and analytical solutions for real-world engineering, environmental, and community problems. Our analysts perform a variety of services for our clients including data management, governance, analysis, transformation, automation, and visualization.
The Program Manager will:
- Be responsible for the operation of the Solutions and Analytics (S&A) team, overseeing a portfolio of projects, ensuring that they are appropriately resourced, and that staff are sufficiently utilized.
- Support the sale of new projects and services through proposal writing, marketing material development and event attendance.
- Support the delivery of sold projects through project management, client management, reporting and invoicing.
- Manage personnel, contributing to goal setting, performance reviews and career development.
- Report to the Business Unit Manager, reporting progress and issues at frequent intervals.
- Coordinate closely with S&A project managers regarding budgets, schedules, and deliverables.
- Coordinate closely with the group’s Technical Leads regarding solution architecture, work breakdown structure and technical approach.
- Effectively facilitate meetings with customers, vendors and partners.
- Participate in the steering of existing and proposed products, hosted solutions or other technology offerings.
- Be expected to travel to industry events & customer offices between 5-10% of the time.
- Liaise with leaders from industry groups across the firm, including but not limited to Federal, Energy and State/Local government.
Necessary background and skills include:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, GIS or other relevant geospatial or data science related field, masters preferred.
- 10 to 15 years’ experience working with data management and analysis applications
- Knowledge of/Experience with Esri’s full suite of products and licensing models
- Knowledge of/Experience with Microsoft’s Power Platform and licensing models
- Knowledge of/Experience with cloud services (AWS and Azure)
- Knowledge of/Experience with remote sensing, lidar and imagery services desired
- Experience with Software or Platform-as-a-Service offerings
- Supervisory experience
- Agile project delivery
- GISP or equivalent certification desired
- PMP or equivalent certification desired