SPATIAL DATA INTEGRATOR Full-time Job
Nov 27th, 2024 at 14:47 IT & Telecoms Toronto 26 views Reference: 10544Job Details
Posting Period: 27-NOV-2024 to 11-DEC-2024
Major Responsibilities:
- Performs geospatial data integration and analysis, and provides technical advice regarding the City's Enterprise Geospatial Environment.
- Develops programs to translate business requirements and designs into information systems.
- Conducts feasibility studies and pilot activities regarding mapping solutions.
- Consults with business divisions to determine requirements and provides recommendations regarding mapping solutions.
- Integrates new technologies into the production environment.
- Provides mapping applications for divisions using existing software and provides support.
- Collects and prepares source data and material required to build and update land base data within the City's Enterprise Geospatial Environment.
- Checks data source documents for feature/attribute content and accuracy to ensure compliance with City data standards and specifications.
- Analyzes problems or errors in data, takes corrective action.
- Liaises with various internal, external, public and private organizations to obtain information related to capture, maintenance and archive of land base data.
- Provides advice and opinion on the content, completeness, consistency and spatial accuracy of land base features.
- Performs quality control on changes and modifications made to the land base databases to ensure they are accurately identified, classified and mapped.
- Provides input into the design and implementation of the land base feature collection/maintenance workflows.
- Identifies problems or issues with feature or attribute data collection and maintenance activities, methods, or procedures, makes recommendations for improvement.
- Conducts testing of programs and systems for unit, system, performance, usability, user acceptance, disaster recovery and implementation tests.
- Provides inputs to "Go / No Go" cut-over decisions e.g. roll-outs.
- Prepares material and provides instructions and demonstrations on geospatial products.
- Responds to enquiries from elected officials, from City staff, community groups, other government and private organizations.
- Maps survey plans from information gathered in the field and office in accordance with City standards and specifications.
- Administers account management for secured mapping applications, provides access.
- Provides GCC service intake and triage.
- Adheres to Change Management processes and procedures, participates in Change Advisory Board Meetings.
- Produces and provides client requested web maps, hard copy maps, digital files and reports.
- Develops and delivers presentations for the GCC and GIS education and services.
- Attends conferences and participates in committees.
Key Qualifications:
Your application for the role of Spatial Data Integrator should describe your qualifications as they relate to:
- Post secondary degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Geography, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Considerable experience using ArcGIS to edit, maintain, and perform quality control of parcel fabric, addresses, street network.
- Experience in data management, data analysis, and associated technologies including writing and executing SQL queries.
- Experience with the legal framework associated with parcel mapping.
- Experience transcribing analog and digital survey/design plans into parcel/address digital data.
- Experience and familiarity with the complexity associated with the maintenance of large-scale urban GIS projects.
You must also have:
- Survey related knowledge.
- Ability to quickly understand new technologies and data environments.
- Interpersonal skills and an aptitude to work independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Collaborative and supportive to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with clients and coworkers.
- Time management and estimation capabilities and the ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
- Certification as an Ontario Land Surveyor would be an asset.
- Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights, and weekends, as required.
- Ability to travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as required.
Company Description
Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontarios northwestern shore. It's a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower. Toronto also has many green spaces, from the orderly oval of Queens Park to 400-acre High Park and its trails, sports facilities and zoo.