GIS Specialist

Aceolution; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Transit City Manager to manage city transit data and provide expertise. This remote position requires experience in transit projects, GIS mapping proficiency, and strong problem-solving skills. Candidates should possess good communication skills and the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

Qualifications

• 6 months + experience required.
• Knowledge of traffic laws, landmarks, and mapping features.
• Comfortable with a rapidly changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with City Experts and stakeholder teams.
• Identify user expectations and provide insights.
• Validate quality of new and updated data.

Skills

Good Communication skills in English

Experience with Transit projects

Proficiency in GIS mapping tools

Strong problem-solving skills

Education

Graduate or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Job Description: Transit City Manager

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Type: Remote

Duration: 12 months (Annual Renewal)

Role Objective

The team works on keeping Maps Data current and reflective of real-world changes. They work on issues submitted by end users of Maps or test the location results of user queries submitted via Web Search or Maps interface. The Maintenance Expert will be responsible for improving & maintenance of city / country transit data and providing country specific expertise. The Maintenance Expert will be responsible for developing and maintaining transit data pipelines and establishing the ground truth for the countries they would be responsible for maintenance.

Role & Responsibilities as a Maintenance Expert

• Communicating with City Experts & other stakeholder teams and achieving the project objectives.
• Identify transit user expectations, broken critical user journeys, data gaps and provide insights to the product.
• Validate quality of new and updated data in the data management platform. Make necessary edits for all transit data types.
• Flag issues to Program Managers to communicate with the partner/provider about required data fixes or inform about problematic data areas.
• Develop outages and alerts capabilities in their assigned city.
• Manage city specific data pipelines through the transit data management platform, including updating pipelines using basic programming skills.

Experience / Skills

• 6 months +
• Graduate or equivalent experience
• Good Communication skills in English - additional languages are preferred
• Experience with Transit projects - GTFS knowledge preferred
• Proficiency in GIS mapping tools and knowledge of the country\'s transit/traffic network.
• Knowledge of traffic laws, landmarks, political modeling and key mapping features of the city/country
• Comfortable with a rapidly changing environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Analyst and Engineering

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting and Strategic Management Services