GIS Manager - Geospatial Data Systems

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a GIS Manager - Geospatial Data Systems in Riyadh to lead enterprise GIS delivery, data governance, and geospatial modeling across a major development program. You will ensure data integrity, automate workflows, and coordinate GIS with BIM, CAD, and planning teams.

The role requires a senior leader with 10+ years in GIS, strong governance, and the ability to drive standards across multiple disciplines for critical project decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Geomatics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of GIS, spatial data management or geospatial analysis experience.
• Strong leadership and experience in enterprise GIS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise GIS production, data management, and geospatial support across the program.
• Establish GIS standards, workflows, and data quality requirements.
• Own GIS deliverables and ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Coordinate GIS integration with CAD, BIM, planning and digital models.
• Develop automated GIS workflows and ModelBuilder scripts.
• Mentor GIS staff and manage multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

GIS Management

Enterprise GIS

Geospatial Data Management

Spatial Database Administration

GIS Automation

Python

JavaScript

ModelBuilder

Education

Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Geomatics, Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

Python

ModelBuilder

JavaScript

Job description

GIS Manager - Geospatial Data Systems Job Snapshot Role: GIS Manager - Geospatial Data Systems Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Information Services Function: Database Administration Experience: Minimum 10 years of relevant GIS, spatial data management, or geospatial analysis experience Job Type: Full-time

Job Overview GIS Manager - Geospatial Data Systems in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an Information Services opportunity responsible for leading enterprise-scale GIS production, spatial data governance, geospatial modeling, database integrity, automation, and digital integration across the Qiddiya Project. Parsons is hiring an experienced GIS leader to establish technical standards, manage multidisciplinary geospatial teams, integrate GIS with BIM and engineering environments, and ensure spatial information is accurate, validated, secure, and suitable for critical planning and project decisions.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Information Services Function: Database Administration Salary: 30000-45000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The GIS Manager will serve as the primary technical authority for geospatial information across a complex, multidisciplinary development program. The role combines GIS production leadership with spatial database management, model integration, data governance, automation, QA-QC, resource planning, and technical capability development. By maintaining reliable geographic information and consistent data structures, the position will enable engineering, BIM, planning, project controls, digital delivery, and management teams to make decisions using trusted spatial evidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead sector-wide GIS production, technical delivery, data management, and geospatial support across the program.
• Establish GIS priorities, production standards, workflows, procedures, and quality requirements.
• Take technical ownership of GIS deliverables and ensure outputs meet agreed accuracy and completeness standards.
• Serve as the principal GIS Subject Matter Expert for project leadership, clients, and relevant agencies.
• Lead delivery of geospatial models and coordinate their integration with engineering, BIM, planning, and other digital models.
• Determine appropriate technical methods for complex mapping, spatial analysis, and geospatial data challenges.
• Select efficient and scalable approaches for implementing GIS requirements across multiple project areas.
• Define spatial data models, schemas, relationships, constraints, indexes, and classification structures.
• Establish consistent standards for geographic feature attribution, coding, coordinate systems, and metadata.
• Manage the spatial accuracy of GIS datasets used for engineering and management analysis.
• Establish data validation processes to improve completeness, consistency, reliability, and usability.
• Define and enforce topology rules to protect spatial integrity across project databases.
• Oversee spatial database design, administration, maintenance, optimization, and governance.
• Ensure geospatial databases remain accurate, structured, secure, and suitable for efficient querying.
• Coordinate data transformation and migration activities between different geospatial and engineering environments.
• Manage geospatial information received from surveys, engineering disciplines, BIM teams, consultants, and other project sources.
• Establish processes for checking data before it is accepted into controlled GIS repositories.
• Review GIS outputs with a risk-focused approach and identify potential consequences of unreliable spatial information.
• Recommend mitigation measures where data quality, model integration, or technical limitations create project risks.
• Develop and maintain standardized GIS production workflows for repeatable project activities.
• Identify opportunities to automate high-volume geospatial processes.
• Oversee development of ModelBuilder workflows, scripts, customized tools, and reusable GIS applications.
• Use Python, JavaScript, and appropriate geospatial development technologies to support workflow automation.
• Promote efficient processing of large spatial datasets through structured automation and database optimization.
• Evaluate emerging GIS technologies and recommend practical applications for the project.
• Support implementation of desktop, web, and mobile GIS solutions.
• Guide development of web mapping, mobile field applications, and digital spatial information tools where required.
• Coordinate GIS integration with CAD environments.
• Work with BIM teams to align geospatial data with federated digital models and project coordinate frameworks.
• Support reliable GIS-BIM data exchange and maintain consistency between spatial and model-based information.
• Participate in multidisciplinary digital coordination meetings.
• Resolve issues involving model location, coordinate references, spatial alignment, and information compatibility.
• Support GIS information requirements used in engineering coordination and project planning.
• Coordinate with surveying specialists where spatial control or source data requires verification.
• Establish GIS QA-QC requirements and guide personnel on quality implementation.
• Conduct or oversee systematic reviews of GIS datasets, maps, applications, databases, and spatial analyses.
• Maintain audit trails and supporting documentation for important geospatial datasets and transformations.
• Establish and monitor GIS production KPIs.
• Prepare detailed progress reports covering GIS deliverables, productivity, data quality, resource utilization, and outstanding issues.
• Provide management with clear visibility of GIS performance and upcoming requirements.
• Support program budget and cost forecasting related to GIS resources, systems, and technical requirements.
• Develop level-of-effort estimates for proposed GIS scopes.
• Contribute GIS methodology, resource plans, scope descriptions, and estimates to technical and commercial proposals.
• Monitor team workload, assignments, priorities, and productivity.
• Support staffing and resource allocation for GIS workstreams.
• Lead GIS Analysts, Specialists, Technicians, and other production personnel.
• Develop structured training plans based on capability and project requirements.
• Conduct training needs assessments for GIS personnel.
• Create technical guidance, training manuals, process instructions, and GIS tutorial material.
• Coach team members in GIS applications, spatial analysis, database use, automation, and quality practices.
• Provide advanced technical troubleshooting for complex GIS issues.
• Establish consistent working practices across GIS production teams.
• Coordinate GIS hardware, software, licensing, and technical environment requirements with IT teams.
• Support management of GIS servers, dedicated sites, permissions, and information security requirements.
• Verify that appropriate security controls are applied to sensitive or controlled geospatial information.
• Maintain awareness of software versions, platform requirements, emerging capabilities, and technology risks.
• Communicate GIS technical issues clearly to engineering, management, digital delivery, and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Prepare technical recommendations addressing GIS strategy, technology adoption, standards, staffing, and future capability.
• Advise senior management on geospatial delivery risks, priorities, and opportunities.
• Support project teams with spatial analysis required for planning, engineering, asset, infrastructure, and development decisions.
• Improve GIS delivery continuously through automation, standardization, capability development, and lessons learned.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in GIS, Geography, Geomatics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience in GIS, spatial data management, geospatial analysis, or digital project delivery.
• Significant GIS leadership experience within large programs, major developments, infrastructure projects, or multidisciplinary engineering environments.
• Expert understanding of GIS production workflows and enterprise geospatial information management.
• Strong ability to design and administer complex spatial databases.
• Advanced knowledge of GIS data models, topology, spatial relationships, indexing, data validation, and geographic accuracy.
• Strong experience integrating GIS with CAD and BIM information.
• Good understanding of BIM principles and GIS-BIM interoperability.
• Advanced practical knowledge of commonly used GIS, CAD, BIM, and spatial database technologies.
• Strong experience developing automated GIS workflows.
• Advanced Python or JavaScript capability for geospatial processing and automation.
• Experience creating custom tools, ModelBuilder solutions, scripts, or repeatable spatial workflows.
• Strong knowledge of desktop, web, and mobile GIS environments.
• Experience managing large and multidisciplinary GIS production teams.
• Demonstrated ability to plan staffing, workload, priorities, and production schedules.
• Experience producing management KPIs and detailed GIS delivery reports.
• Strong QA-QC knowledge applicable to geospatial data, mapping, and spatial analysis.
• Ability to establish data governance practices that maintain spatial accuracy and database integrity.
• Experience managing GIS server environments and information security requirements is advantageous.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical capability for complex geospatial problems.
• Ability to communicate spatial modelling, survey, GIS, and database subjects clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• GIS Professional certification, Esri Technical Certification, or an equivalent recognized GIS credential is preferred.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and technical mentoring capability.
• Ability to operate effectively across engineering, BIM, planning, project controls, digital delivery, and management functions.

Skills Set

• Geographic Information Systems
• GIS Management
• Enterprise GIS
• Geospatial Data Management
• Spatial Database Administration
• Spatial Data Modeling
• GIS Data Governance
• Geospatial Analysis
• GIS Production Management
• Spatial Accuracy
• Data Validation
• Data Integrity
• Data Completeness
• Topology Management
• Coordinate Systems
• Spatial Relationships
• Database Indexing
• GIS Database Design
• Database Optimization
• Data Transformation
• Spatial Data Migration
• GIS QA-QC
• Geospatial Risk Management
• GIS-BIM Integration
• BIM Coordination
• CAD-GIS Integration
• Digital Model Integration
• ModelBuilder
• GIS Automation
• Python
• JavaScript
• Custom GIS Tools
• Workflow Automation
• Desktop GIS
• Web GIS
• Mobile GIS
• Spatial Applications
• Geospatial Servers
• GIS Security
• GIS Data Access Control
• Spatial Analysis
• Mapping
• Geospatial Reporting
• GIS KPI Reporting
• Resource Planning
• Production Planning
• Team Management
• Technical Training
• GIS Training Development
• Technical Troubleshooting
• GIS Standards
• GIS Procedures
• Data Classification
• Metadata Management
• Digital Delivery
• Survey Data Integration
• Engineering Data Integration
• Spatial Data Quality
• GIS Technology Strategy
• GIS Resource Forecasting
• Technical Proposal Support

Why Join Us

This role provides the opportunity to lead geospatial delivery within the Qiddiya Project, where reliable spatial information supports engineering, infrastructure, planning, BIM, digital delivery, and management decisions at significant scale. The position combines enterprise GIS leadership, automation, spatial database architecture, GIS-BIM integration, technical governance, and team development. It offers an experienced GIS professional the scope to establish geospatial standards and digital workflows that can influence project delivery well beyond individual mapping assignments.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, program management, digital technology, and construction solutions for major developments worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports large-scale programs such as Qiddiya through multidisciplinary engineering, digital delivery, geospatial information management, BIM integration, project controls, and advanced technical services.