GIS Application Specialist

Location: Falmer, Brighton (Hybrid) Contract Type: Permanent Salary: Market rate + bonus. Hours: 37 hours Are you ready to make a difference in the water and waste industry? Southern Water are going through an immense digital transformation programme and require skilled and talented people to join our supportive and collaborative teams to deliver these transformation initiatives. The GIS Application Specialist works as part of the GIS Platform Team, supporting the 2,000 GIS users within the company. This team are responsible for providing application support, maintaining existing GIS infrastructure/applications, and engaging with the business to exploit the use of new GIS capability. Whilst there are defined outcomes associated with the support and maintenance of applications, you will have flexibility on how these can be achieved, also using your experience of different methodologies/technologies to further develop GIS solutions for our stakeholders. Responsibilities are to include: Management and enhancement of GIS application infrastructure Maintenance of existing GIS applications, identifying areas where business processes can be improved and implementing these improvements Providing support for GIS applications, engaging with vendors as required Gathering business requirements from stakeholders, and developing these into system functionality Working as part of the development team for GIS projects, defining appropriate technologies the direction of the ..... full job details .....