Sr. ArcGIS Project Manager (Ref: 18248)
Position: Sr. ArcGIS Project Manager (Ref: 18248)
Location: Harrisburg, PA United States, 17110
Salary: DOE
Duration: 1 Years 2 Months 22 Days - Contract
Openings: 1
Deadline: 04/13/2026
Description:
***Local Candidates Only
***Hybrid
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Geospatial Project Manager to lead enterprise-level geospatial initiatives. This position plays a critical leadership role in the planning, coordination, and execution of geospatial projects that enhance infrastructure management initiatives.
The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep geospatial expertise, project management acumen, and a commitment to innovation, delivering modern GIS solutions that drive efficiency and public service improvements.
Enterprise Project Management
• Define project charters, deliverables, budgets, and schedules in alignment with priorities.
• Manage teams and vendor resources to deliver complex GIS projects on time and within scope.
• Ensure alignment with the Delivery Center and strategic priorities, enterprise GIS roadmaps, and security/compliance standards.
• Facilitate requirements for workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into geospatial system requirements including technical specifications, data workflows, service configurations, and interface definitions.
• Produce succinct status reports, dashboards, and presentations.
ArcGIS Enterprise & Integration support
• Coordinate tasks related to ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, upgrades, configuration, service publishing, and system integration.
• Create and manage requirements traceability matrices linking requirements to design, testing, and acceptance.
Stakeholder Engagement & Client Management
• Liaise with program offices, departments, and vendors to understand business requirements and deliver geospatial solutions that meet mission needs.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication, reporting, and change management throughout project lifecycles.
Testing Strategy, Coordination & Quality Assurance
• Oversee test execution across environments and ensure defects are tracked, triaged, and resolved.
• Guarantee digital accessibility testing is performed and addressed to meet standards for GIS products.
• Validate system performance, data integrity, service reliability, map rendering performance, and API response behavior.
• Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing with program area SMEs.
Experience and Training
• 3+ years of experience supporting or managing projects in ArcGIS Enterprise based systems and geospatial applications.
• Project management with multi-team IT coordination responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud concepts, web GIS development, and DevOps workflows.
• Proven ability to write, maintain, and organize detailed technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with structured testing methodologies and test management tools.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and team leadership skills Knowledge of GIS integrations
• Comfort navigating multi-department governance and IT prioritization processes
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile/Scrum Master or similar certification
Working Conditions
• Primarily telework in a hybrid work model with required availability for in-person collaboration in Harrisburg, PA
• Collaborative and mission-driven culture focused on modernization, service delivery, and innovation.
Required / Desired Skills
• Experience supporting or managing projects in ArcGIS Enterprise based systems and geospatial applications. Required - 3 Years
• Project management with multi-team IT coordination responsibilities. Required - 3 Years
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud concepts, web GIS development, and DevOps workflows. Required - 3 Years
• Proven ability to write, maintain, and organize detailed technical documentation. Required - 3 Years
• Demonstrated experience with structured testing methodologies and test management tools. Required - 3 Years
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and team leadership skills Knowledge of GIS integrations. Required - 3 Years
• Comfort navigating multi-agency governance and IT prioritization processes Required - 3 Years
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile/Scrum Master or similar certification. Required - 1 Years