This client has grown to become one of the largest and most respected property consultancies and surveying advisory firms in the UK, with a network of offices across England and Wales, employing over 900 members of staff.

As a major property practice, they have a market-leading infrastructure team comprising GIS Developers/ Analysts, Surveyors, Valuers, Environmental Specialists, Project Managers and Town Planners.

Providing sound independent advice on all aspects of an infrastructure project, they enable their clients to take full advantage of the opportunities that the property landscape presents.

Due to successful growth in the GIS side of the business, a fantastic opportunity has become available for a technical GIS Developer to lead a small team of 3 and sit alongside the Head of GIS.
The role will focus on delivering GIS integrations and analysis to support Property Digital Twins, which can be used for sustainability monitoring, Space utilisation and planning, or asset and facilities management.   

You will have a passion for solution development, combining Multisource Geospatial datasets from sources such as Survey data, Drones, GIS and BIM to create and lead the product development of our 3D Property Digital Twin SaaS platform and analysis services. 

Experience with implementing the latest technologies, including working APIs, Realtime IoT and Building Management System Data and AI LLMS will be essential for the future of this role.  The successful candidate will be responsible for daily operational delivery of the team, identifying and supporting the tender process for new business opportunities, developing client solutions and team management for 3 people, with the ability for this to grow in the future.  With access to the full Esri Enterprise GIS platform, Safe FME and the latest 2D and 3D data sets, we encourage all our team to be innovative and entrepreneurial in their approach.

 

 Main tasks:   

• Lead a team initially of 3 people with the aspiration to grow steadily as part of the Vision 2030 business plan.
  
  Including Appraisal reporting, time recording, invoicing, job creation, etc. 
• Work with Head of Geospatial, Head of Measured Survey and Head of Digital Innovation and / or lead on delivering integrated, spatially enabled, property digital twin systems with or without IOT integration. 
• Provide Geospatial Consultancy to clients and the wider business to help cross sell Geospatial services. 
•  Identify and support new business acquisition through tender writing, requirements capture and problem definition.
  
  Be able to translate requirements into technical work packages to be delivered by the team. 

• Extensive experience in GIS analysis, consultancy, data engineering or solution architecture.
  
  Ideally with a BSc or equivalent in GIS.
• The ideal candidate will be Highly Proficient in Enterprise (Esri AGOL, Enterprise) and Desktop GIS and Application development (e.g., Esri ArcGIS, QGIS) and possess a strong understanding of spatial data analysis and geospatial technologies, including Measured Survey captured 3D data.
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, Arcade) for GIS applications with database management systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) would be beneficial. 
• Experience managing/creating web applications in ArcGIS online / Enterprise environments, combined with the use of Spatial SQL to create custom queries, view tables in MS SQL / POSTGIS/ SDE DB.