Senior GIS Lead - Routing & Siting

Quanta Infrastructure Solutions Group; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time off

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Quanta Infrastructure Solutions Group (QISG) seeks a senior GIS Analyst to lead routing and siting studies for linear infrastructure projects. You will design advanced geospatial workflows, manage enterprise GIS environments, and ensure reproducible methodologies across teams.

The role requires deep spatial analysis, data engineering, and automation focus with ArcGIS Pro/Enterprise proficiency. Collaborative leadership and delivering regulatory-ready outputs are essential.

Qualifications

• Post secondary degree in GIS, Cartography, Geography, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years professional experience in Routing and Siting.
• Minimum 8-15 years professional experience in GIS.
• Professional experience with ESRI ArcGIS and its extensions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement MCDA models for route selection and site suitability.
• Develop cost surface models, least-cost path analyses, corridor generation, and alternatives assessment workflows.
• Integrate environmental, regulatory, engineering, and socio-economic datasets into constraint and opportunity mapping frameworks.
• Document and maintain transparent, defensible methodologies aligned with regulatory and client requirements.
• Architect and maintain enterprise geodatabases, data schemas, and versioning strategies.
• Develop ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and validating large, multi-source spatial datasets.
• Ensure data integrity through topology rules, domain constraints, and automated validation scripts.
• Manage and optimize large raster and vector datasets, including DEMs, land cover, and remote sensing products.
• Build and maintain automated geoprocessing workflows using Python (ArcPy), FME and ModelBuilder.
• Develop reusable scripts and tools to support repeatable routing and siting analyses.
• Implement batch processing pipelines for data updates, QA/QC, and reporting.

Skills

GIS Analysis

ArcGIS Pro

Data Modeling

Python/ArcPy

Spatial Statistics

Project Leadership

Education

GIS degree or related

Tools

ArcGIS Enterprise

QGIS

SQL Server

Job description

Quanta Infrastructure Solutions Group (QISG) seeks a senior GIS Analyst to lead routing and siting studies for linear infrastructure projects. You will design advanced geospatial workflows, manage enterprise GIS environments, and ensure reproducible methodologies across teams.

The role requires deep spatial analysis, data engineering, and automation focus with ArcGIS Pro/Enterprise proficiency. Collaborative leadership and delivering regulatory-ready outputs are essential.