Geospatial Data Architect – GIS Admin (Hybrid)

Fervo Energy; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Short-term/long-term disability

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Employee stock options

Job summary

Fervo Energy, headquartered in Houston with offices across the West, seeks a GIS Data Administrator to own our enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem. You will administer ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, define data models, and build data pipelines used by GIS analysts, developers, and field teams.

You will design schemas, manage versioning, and automate ETL with Python and FME, integrating external sources like BLM LR2000, USGS, and state portals to maintain accurate land and project data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in GIS data management, geodatabase administration, or spatial data engineering.
• Expert proficiency in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal geodatabase administration.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise relational spatial databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS or SQL Server Spatial).
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining automated spatial data pipelines using Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and administer Fervo’s enterprise geodatabase environment (ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal and ArcGIS Online), including schema design, version management, replica management, and database maintenance.
• Define and enforce geodatabase data models, feature class schemas, relationship classes, domains, and topology rules.
• Manage geodatabase versioning workflows to support concurrent editing by GIS analysts, developers, and field data collection systems.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines to ingest, validate, and publish spatial and tabular data from land, engineering, permitting, and operational sources into the enterprise geodatabase.
• Build automated data update workflows using Python (ArcPy, arcgis module, pandas) and FME or similar integration tools.
• Integrate authoritative external data sources including BLM LR2000, state GIS portals, county assessors, USGS, and FEMA.
• Data Governance & Quality Control
• Establish and enforce spatial data standards, metadata conventions, naming schemas, and coordinate reference system policies.
• Develop and implement automated data validation rules and QA/QC workflows.
• Maintain authoritative GIS datasets for land status, federal and state ownership, lease areas, project boundaries, well locations, infrastructure, and operational features across the Western U.S.

Skills

GIS data management

Geodatabase administration

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Python (ArcPy)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in GIS/related field

Tools

FME

SQL Server Spatial

Job description

Fervo Energy, headquartered in Houston with offices across the West, seeks a GIS Data Administrator to own our enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem. You will administer ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, define data models, and build data pipelines used by GIS analysts, developers, and field teams.

You will design schemas, manage versioning, and automate ETL with Python and FME, integrating external sources like BLM LR2000, USGS, and state portals to maintain accurate land and project data