Senior GIS Application Development Analyst

Senior Gis Application Development Analyst

Puget Sound Energy's Operations Mobile Workforce team is seeking a Senior GIS Application Development Analyst with deep expertise in the ESRI ArcGIS software suite to join our dynamic and growing team. In this role, you will take ownership of the design, build, deployment, and maintenance of ESRI ArcGIS platform solutions that empower PSE's gas and electric business office and field workers.

You'll provide critical support for a diverse portfolio of ArcGIS office and mobile applications, including asset maps, situational awareness dashboards, storm response tools, damage assessment systems, gas regulatory reporting, pipeline safety applications, digital leak surveys, vegetation management, and field inspections—directly contributing to the safety and reliability of our operations. While ArcGIS expertise will be central to this role, we're equally looking for a forward-thinking technologist who is passionate about staying ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving digital utility landscape.

The ideal candidate will bring curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies such as cloud computing, automation, and intelligent monitoring, and will be eager to help shape the future of how PSE leverages GIS and related technologies to serve our customers and communities.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business users to analyze and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Diagnoses complex problems, develops and implements GIS solutions.
• Effectively understand relevant business processes so they can be modeled in internal systems.
• Provide day-to-day support for production environments.
• Performs complex and demanding tasks dealing with the analysis, design, configuration, development and implementation of solutions serving business line and functional units
• Maintains or develops complex application components (analysis, design, development and implementation of solutions) based on functional requirements in the environments.
• Leads coordination, facilitating interactive analysis and design sessions with representatives of business line and functional units.
• Carries out detailed system design and writes functional and technical requirements/specs, develops test plans and applies testing, and quality monitoring procedures.
• Provides guidance to business and functional units in developing tests and training plans and materials.
• Provides day-to-day support to business users and to IT developer peers, as well as drives improved user productivity through developing and implementing new business process and systems solutions.
• Leads other team members, as required during the development cycle of assigned projects.
• Provides guidance to business and functional units in developing test scripts, training plans and materials.
• Responsible for the identification and resolution of gaps in the business processes.
• Is involved in security/authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation.
• Specifies and applies testing and quality monitoring procedures.
• Provides necessary coordination, facilitating interactive analysis and design sessions with representatives of business line and functional units.
• Contributes to annual and 5-year capital IT budgets.
• Proactively contributes to the overall IT strategy via direct experience in tactical projects and specific user requirements.
• Participates at the departmental level in line organization initiatives, tactics and strategies to act as a liaison from the line organizations to IT for continued development of the internal systems.
• Provides leadership and mentoring to subordinates.
• Participant in project initiation and defines high-level requirements.
• Works collaboratively with Project Management to organize and lead the development effort.
• Assists in tailoring the development process to meet the project needs and assists project managers in scheduling, budget tasks, and defines high-level requirements.
• Mentors others and monitors other business or technical analysts in project software development methods and processes, and aligns these processes with project needs.
• Based on a solid understanding of scope and processes, can independently gather/establish business requirements of new developments to meet changing business needs.
• Provides technology direction to business for tactical approaches.
• Establishes and manages moderate sized project plans.
• Manages interface activities with middleware systems and processes that connect to core systems.
• Works to create Centers of Excellence based on best practices.
• Acts as a champion in standards and methodology governance, performing code, design and standard reviews for others within the department.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years IT experience, including several years of systems development experience in the design and development of department-wide or enterprise-wide…