Lead GIS Engineer

About the role

EPE's GIS team is looking for a Lead GIS Engineer to act as the senior technical voice on the team that builds the geospatial data behind its energy intelligence software and consulting deliverables. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on architecture, data quality and raising the technical bar across the team.

Key responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for how the GIS team designs datasets, ETL workflows, attribute rules and geospatial services, and ensure consistent execution.
• Drive the team's automation roadmap, including consolidating workflows, automating tasks, refactoring QA processes and unifying regional geospatial datasets into shared service layers.
• Own the technical definition of data quality, including schema standards, attribute rules and QA/QC processes.
• Own the configuration and operation of EPE's GIS environments across ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise, partnering with CloudOps on infrastructure, upgrades and incidents.
• Own the operational health of hosted utility GIS infrastructure, including data pipelines, Portal management, Utility Network builds and batch jobs.
• Mentor GIS analysts and engineers through code and design reviews, pair programming and technical onboarding.
• Serve as the technical point of contact with Esri and represent EPE at GIS conferences, Esri events and client engagements.
• Collaborate with software product teams and consulting practice leads on data requirements and delivery planning across U.S. ISO/RTO markets.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in GIS, Geography, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of professional GIS engineering experience, including 2+ years as a technical lead, lead engineer or principal-level contributor on a data-focused team.
• Deep hands-on experience across the Esri stack, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, Workflow Manager and Enterprise Geodatabase administration.
• Production experience designing and operating Safe FME workflows or equivalent ETL, with the depth to architect, code review and troubleshoot complex workspaces.
• Demonstrated experience defining and enforcing data quality, including schema design, attribute rules, QA/QC governance, data lineage and delivery SLAs.
• Experience scoping and delivering end-to-end GIS projects, including client handoff and professional services support.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and leading design reviews without formal authority.

Required skills

• Strong Python skills for spatial automation and production ETL code review.
• Preferred: electric utility experience, Esri Utility Network, FME Flow, Dagster or Airflow, CI/CD for spatial data, and cloud hosting of ArcGIS Enterprise (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Preferred: Agile or sprint-based work with internal software product teams, and experience evangelizing GIS capabilities in a consulting or software firm.