Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Lead (IT Application Development - Senior Specialist)
Washington State Department of Transportation
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Washington Military Department seeks an experienced GIS Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership for CFMO geospatial systems. You will architect and manage an enterprise geospatial infrastructure, guiding data integration across federal and state datasets to support long-range master planning and facility decisions.
This civilian role requires a strong background in GIS, data interoperability, CAD experience, and the ability to lead staff on complex projects across multi-agency
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in geography, geospatial science, computer science, or related field.
- Six years of GIS, cartographic, or data interoperability experience.
- One year of CAD experience and familiarity with mapping tools.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and validate geospatial data across multiple boundaries to establish a definitive spatial baseline.
- Architect and standardize enterprise UI/UX design, application logic, and deployment frameworks.
- Provide spatial intelligence and predictive analysis for long-range plans and facility decisions.
- Resolve coordinate system mismatches between CAD and GIS datasets.
- Program automated synchronization tools to bridge local and federal data gaps.
- Drive enterprise geospatial strategy and oversee end-to-end GIS data management.
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Job description
Salary: $8,275.00 - $11,134.00 Monthly
Location: Pierce County - Lakewood, WA
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 2026-08463
Department: Military Department
Opening Date: 10/13/2026
Closing Date: 10/27/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
Camp Murray, WA
The Washington Military Department's Construction, Facilities, and Management Office (CFMO) is seeking an experienced and motivated GIS Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership in the development, management, and application of geographic information systems. Reporting to the Planning and Program Branch Chief within CFMO, the GIS Lead is a technical subject matter expert for all geospatial and geographic information systems within CFMO. This position works independently on all levels of assignments and provides guidance and leadership to lower-level GIS staff on complex issues.
This position is responsible to architect, manage, and leverage the organization's enterprise geospatial infrastructure such as facility buildings data, demographics, and regional assets into a unified system to improve planning, maintenance, and daily operations.
This is a civilian position and does not require military service affiliation.
Protecting people is our passion. At the Washington Military Department, we combine our unique talents to create safer communities and ensure our neighbors and loved ones can recover from whatever emergency might arise. Our agency unites civilian employees with members of the Washington National Guard, creating a team that is deeply committed to public service. We go home at night knowing that our day-to-day work supports activities that truly make a difference. Whether that's partnering with our communities to prepare for a disaster, leading an emergency response, hiring top-notch talent or supporting at-risk kids at our Washington Youth ChalleNGe Academy - the Washington Military Department seeks to safeguard our way of life and those that call Washington home.
To learn more about the Washington Military Department, please visit: gov
In addition to job fulfillment, the Washington Military Department offers an excellent benefits package which includes exceptional health care coverage, a retirement savings plan and job training opportunities.
- Coordinate and validate a wide range of geospatial planning data across complex federal, state, and multi-jurisdictional regional boundaries to establish the definitive spatial baseline for facilities, master plans, and capital investment submissions.
- Architects and standardizes the enterprise UI/UX design, application logic, and deployment frameworks for CFMO secure web-mapping databases; establishes agency-wide layout, appearance, and functionality standards to optimize spatial intelligence delivery across diverse state and federal users.
- Provides definitive spatial intelligence and predictive analysis to drive the 25-year Long Range Master Plans, force structure stationing, and facility consolidation decisions.
- Resolves complex coordinate system and spatial reference mismatches between localized engineering survey grids (CAD) and global geographic coordinate systems (GIS).
- Programs automated synchronization tools to bridge gaps, translate schemas, and reconcile data mismatches between local state systems and federal databases of record.
- Creates analysis and decision making for the development of Real Property Development Plans.
- Perform precise site location, suitability analysis, and layout designs for prospective military developments.
- Serves as the principal authority responsible for coordinating and aligning multi-regional state geospatial datasets with rigid federal data structures; engineers advanced cross-network data translation pipelines to ensure seamless interoperability between local, regional, and federal systems of record.
- Conducts spatial-demographic modeling against county and regional population datasets to strategically guide long-range recruiting footprints and readiness center stationing decisions.
- Serves as the primary technical liaison and subject matter expert tasked with cross-agency coordination across federal, state, and diverse municipal/regional entities; confers shared data-sharing agreements, resolves cross-jurisdictional spatial data conflicts, and drives unified geographic master planning standards for statewide military real property.
- Execute systematic reconciliations between GIS layers and federal records to ensure total alignment to include over 200 buildings.
- Responsible to drive enterprise-level geospatial strategy and technical consultation for the CFMO, overseeing end-to-end product design, life-cycle application maintenance, and rigorous quality assurance frameworks for integrated GIS and CAD datasets.
- Architects, engineers, and optimizes Common Information Picture (CIP)data model repository, extract translate and load (ETL) toolsets, and analytical reporting systems.
- Governs, evaluates, and updates Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata, Global Positioning System (GPS) data dictionaries, and pertinent information from GPS collection projects to enforce data integrity and compatibility for existing enterprise data schema and format.
- Evaluates, synthesizes, and integrates federal and state statutory regulations into CFMO geospatial operations, serving as the principal authority ensuring programmatic compliance with applicable laws and mandates.
- Support CFMO independently and in collaboration with other IT staff to provide specific application and database technical support to ensure availability of applications and geospatial database systems.
- Responsible for planning and scheduling the installation of system updates for associated CFMO CAD, GIS, GPS systems to maintain software operational capability and security in coordination with the IT Department.
- Manage the accounts licensing portal for CFMO CAD, GPS, and remote sensing software systems.
- Plan, test, and implement application configuration changes to support CAD and GPS systems to maintain integration and software versions with agency enterprise geospatial systems.
- Serves as the primary administrator for the CFMO ArcGIS Enterprise portal, managing user licenses, roles, groups, and security permissions.
- Develop and document system administration standard operating procedures for CFMO CAD, GPS, and remote sensing systems.
- Bachelor's degree in geography, geospatial science, computer science, or related field, and
- Six years of experience in geographic information systems, cartographic principles, coordinating system transformations, and data interoperability or similar toolset, and
- One year of CAD experience.
Additional experience in geographic information systems, cartographic principles, coordinating system transformations, and data interoperability or similar toolset will substitute year-for-year for the degree requirement.
- Growth Mindset: Actively demonstrate a commitment to learning and growth.
- Demonstrated ability to reflect, learn, and adapt behavior to improve individual and organizational effectiveness.
- Service Oriented: Demonstrate a willingness to take action to understand and meet the needs of others.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and respond to the needs of others, remove barriers, and contribute to equitable responsive service delivery.
- Arc Server / SDE v10.xx
- Pro v2.3 or higher
- Trimble Pathfinder Office v5.65
- Trimble Terrasync v5.65
- Trimble Geo 7 Series GPS units
- Trimble S7
- High accuracy Global Positioning Systems
- AutoCAD
- SSMS Sequel Server Management Studio-V18+ Visual Studio Code
- SQL Express (ArcDesktop Database Engine)
- Azure Storage Explorer
- One year of data analysis, database design, and/or database programming (advanced queries, stored procedures).
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
- Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional (
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