GIS Data Product Manager, Principal

Requisition ID # 164895 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E IT is a unified organization composed of various departments which collaborate effectively to plan, deliver, and operate high quality technology solutions. The Geographic Information System Center of Excellence (GIS CoE) department has the responsibility for maintaining and operating IT GIS applications that support Gas, Electric, Power Generation, IT Fiber, and other functional areas while also delivering IT projects and solutions in support of company business goals and priorities.

Position Summary

Today’s Digital Utility runs on data and information. To support our current and future needs while further advancing PG&E, we are seeking a highly skilled GIS Data Lead. This role will be instrumental in leading PG&E’s journey to modernize our Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) under our multiyear Elevate Program. This leader will ensure alignment with strategic business objectives, IT technical standards, and various dependent projects and programs. The successful candidate will have a direct impact to IT’s spatial data strategy, the outcomes of spatial data solutions, and will drive key architectural data decisions by technically guiding program resources, cross-functional partners, and application owners.

This role demands a strategic leader with a proven track record in helping support complex programs within a defined timeline, budget, and scope. Deep technical knowledge of the Esri ArcGIS platform, data structures, including utility network models, 3D, and raster GIS will be key to the success of this individual. Intrinsically, the candidate must be adept in managing stakeholder expectations, fostering seamless cross-functional collaboration, and passionately solving problems while balancing innovation with the realities of technical constraints. This position is hybrid, working both from your remote office as well as the Oakland General Office three days a week (on average).

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company—in good faith—believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum:  $147,000  

Bay Area Maximum: $251,000

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the GIS CoE technical data strategy across our complex technology landscape
  • Coordinate with architects and other data leaders
  • Envision long-term enterprise-wide GIS data solutions, target state architecture, and overall excellence with the application of data and analytics
  • Develop and implement strategic data product plans using standards and metrics
  • Devise strategies and standards for internal and external data sharing
• Own continuous improvement and innovation in the management and availability of data
  • Identify and share opportunities for process enhancements and implementing best practices
  • Stay current with GIS technologies, best practices, and emerging industry standards
  • Help troubleshoot technical issues related to GIS data and applications
  • Provide technical support and training to GIS users (with regards to their data use)
• Own PG&E’s enterprise spatial data standards and contribute these to enterprise data standards
  • Provide governance and oversight of GISCOE’s adherence to enterprise data standards
  • Ensure that all current and future data standards are upheld in GIS Delivery and Operations
• Understand and document the business capabilities needed to deliver on the mission of collecting, storing and disseminating data and information
• Evangelize GIS data products and application solutions including end-user applications and integration patterns with other Enterprise systems
• Present technical workshops and demonstrations related to GISCOE products
• Act as the GIS data liaison between various IT departments, stakeholders, and functional areas
• Identify potential risks to the success of data solution implementations and develop comprehensive mitigation plans to address the risks proactively.
• Ensure that:
  • robust data governance is adhered to including complex compliance, policy, and audit requirements.
  • GIS and enterprise metadata standards are adhered to.
• Identify the developmental needs of others, coach and mentor them
• Collaboratively engage and influence all stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners
• Achieve a deep understanding of business strategies, priorities, needs, and current capabilities
• Exercise autonomy, independent judgment, and discretion in matters of significance with broad scope and high complexity

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Geo-Informatics/GIS, Remote Sensing, Information Technology, other relevant field, or equivalent experience
• 7 years job-related experience

Desired:

• 5+ years Esri ArcGIS Technology experience
• 5+ years Electric and/or Gas Utility experience
• ArcGIS implementation of 2,000+ users
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise business architecture principles and industry standard architecture frameworks
• Cloud deployment experience
• Experience with coordinate systems, map projections, and spatial data transformations
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to Executive Leadership

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