Senior Geospatial & AI Innovation Leader

True Environmental; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

True Environmental seeks a hands-on technical leader to drive geospatial, digital, and AI innovation. You will serve as U.S.-based authority for enterprise GIS across six practice groups, designing geodatabases, apps, and workflows while training teams to deploy your tools.

You will present to clients, coordinate with Canada, and shape platform standards. This role is pivotal to accelerating efficiency across environmental and engineering projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree as required in qualifications.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• 20+ years of progressive geospatial and application development experience.
• GISP certification (or ability to obtain within 12 months).
• Deep expertise in the Esri platform: ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Server, ArcGIS Online, Experience Builder, Survey123, Field Maps, 3D/Spatial Analyst.
• Proven development skills: Python, SQL, JavaScript, and relational database design.
• Demonstrated track record of building web apps, dashboards, and enterprise GIS infrastructure that improved delivery or decisions.
• Experience integrating field data collection platforms with enterprise geodatabases and downstream tools.
• Ability to elicit requirements from non-GIS staff and deliver usable tools.
• Comfortable presenting to clients, agencies, and industry audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the U.S. technical lead for geospatial and digital solutions across six practice groups.
• Map workflows to remove manual effort and improve decision quality.
• Establish firm-wide geodatabase standards, metadata, data governance, QA/QC.
• Coordinate with Canada to align tools and avoid duplication.
• Review geospatial deliverables and contribute to proposals with digital scope.
• Design enterprise geodatabases, web-mapping apps, dashboards, and digital-twin platforms.
• Develop repeatable tools and workflows for recurring project needs (cut/fill, modeling, reporting).
• Build field data collection apps and pipelines into enterprise databases.
• Integrate real-time data sources (IoT, AIS, weather, LiDAR) into living data products.
• Automate with Python, SQL, JavaScript, ModelBuilder, and FME; convert legacy data.
• Train teams to use the tools you build and enable adoption.

Skills

Geospatial leadership

GIS experience

Python

SQL

JavaScript

Esri ArcGIS

Data governance

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Geography, Geospatial Science, Environmental Science/Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Tools

Esri ArcGIS

Python

SQL (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server)

JavaScript (Esri JS API, Leaflet, Node.js)

FME

QGIS

MapServer

GeoServer

PostGIS

Job description

True Environmental seeks a hands-on technical leader to drive geospatial, digital, and AI innovation. You will serve as U.S.-based authority for enterprise GIS across six practice groups, designing geodatabases, apps, and workflows while training teams to deploy your tools.

You will present to clients, coordinate with Canada, and shape platform standards. This role is pivotal to accelerating efficiency across environmental and engineering projects.