Land GIS Leader & Spatial Analytics Strategist
Crescent Energy
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Job summary
Crescent Energy seeks a Land GIS Principal Analyst to lead geospatial design, maintenance, and QA for the Land Department. The role turns ownership, lease, contract, and regulatory data into reliable GIS products and decision-ready insights, collaborating with the Enterprise GIS team.
Reporting to the Land Technology & Analytics Supervisor, you will mentor staff, set data standards, and develop automation workflows while supporting acquisition, permitting, and operational decisions across the
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Geography or Geospatial field or 10+ years GIS experience.
- 7+ years of progressive GIS experience in land, lease, title, right‑of‑way, parcel, mineral, or energy‑related GIS work.
- 7+ years with upstream O&G operations.
- Demonstrated expertise with Esri ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online or Enterprise, geodatabases, spatial analysis, and cartographic production.
- Experience with Python, SQL, Arcade, ModelBuilder, FME, or related GIS automation tools.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation, maintenance, and governance of the land GIS database, feature services, maps, and spatial-analysis workflows.
- Integrate land records, leases, rights-of-way, contracts, ownership information, plats, legal descriptions, survey data, and regulatory datasets into accurate GIS layers.
- Lead all assignments to the Land GIS group related to polygon drafting, cartography requests, data management, and other tasks necessary to meet business needs.
- Perform advanced spatial analysis to support acquisition, divestiture, leasing, title, development, permitting, and operational decisions.
- Establish and enforce data standards, documentation, quality-control procedures, versioning practices, and metadata requirements.
- Review and validate GIS work products, including lease polygons, tract boundaries, legal-description interpretations, and map deliverables.
- Develop automation and repeatable workflows using GIS tools, scripting, and appropriate AI-enabled technologies.
- Partner with Land and all departments whose workflows depend on land-footprint data, including Legal, Engineering, Development, Operations, and external vendors, to define requirements and deliver clear geospatial solutions.
- Produce executive-ready maps, dashboards, reports, and presentations.
- Mentor Land GIS staff and serve as the subject‑matter expert for land data and geospatial best practices.
- Monitor emerging GIS, data-management, and AI capabilities and recommend practical improvements.
- Lead strategic initiatives involving third‑party resources and external partners.
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Job description
Crescent Energy seeks a Land GIS Principal Analyst to lead geospatial design, maintenance, and QA for the Land Department. The role turns ownership, lease, contract, and regulatory data into reliable GIS products and decision-ready insights, collaborating with the Enterprise GIS team.
Reporting to the Land Technology & Analytics Supervisor, you will mentor staff, set data standards, and develop automation workflows while supporting acquisition, permitting, and operational decisions across the
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