Geospatial Data Architect — GIS Data Administrator (Hybrid)

Fervo Energy Co.; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy is seeking a GIS Data Administrator to own the integrity, architecture, and governance of its enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem.

The role sits on the data infrastructure side of the GIS program—administering the geodatabase, building data pipelines, and maintaining authoritative land status, project boundaries, and operational spatial datasets relied upon by GIS analysis, applications, and field operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of 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.
• Strong understanding of GIS data quality, metadata standards, and governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and administer Fervo’s enterprise geodatabase environment (ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal and ArcGIS Online).
• Define and enforce geodatabase data models, feature class schemas, relationships, domains, and topology rules.
• Manage geodatabase versioning workflows for concurrent editing.
• Monitor geodatabase performance and plan storage/capacity needs.
• Administer back-end spatial databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS or SQL Server Spatial).
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines to ingest and publish spatial data.
• Build automated data update workflows using Python and ETL tools like FME.
• Integrate external data sources into the data environment on defined refresh schedules.
• Coordinate with GIS Developer on publication and hosted layer updates.
• Support CAD-to-GIS data conversion workflows with CAD Manager.

Skills

GIS data management

Geodatabase administration

Spatial data governance

Python scripting

ArcGIS Pro

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal

PostgreSQL

SQL Server Spatial

FME

Python

Job description

Fervo Energy is seeking a GIS Data Administrator to own the integrity, architecture, and governance of its enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem.

The role sits on the data infrastructure side of the GIS program—administering the geodatabase, building data pipelines, and maintaining authoritative land status, project boundaries, and operational spatial datasets relied upon by GIS analysis, applications, and field operations.