GIS Data Administrator

Salt Lake City, UT;
Golden, CO;
Houston, TX;
Oakland, CA;
Reno, NV

Fervo Energy (NASDAQ: FRVO) is a modern power company developing next-generation geothermal resources to meet the growing demand for affordable, reliable, 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our mission is to transform geothermal into America’s most dependable and affordable source of clean, around-the-clock power. By combining innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and advanced reservoir engineering, Fervo has developed a repeatable approach to building utility-scale enhanced geothermal systems.

Our flagship Cape Station development in Utah is planned to deliver 500 MW of firm, carbon-free power, and we are advancing a development pipeline of more than 50 GW. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, geoscientists, operators, project builders, and business leaders working to make geothermal a cornerstone of a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy future.

The GIS Data Administrator owns the integrity, architecture, and governance of Fervo’s enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem. This role sits on the data infrastructure side of Fervo’s GIS program, administering the geodatabase, building data pipelines, and maintaining the authoritative land status, project boundary, and operational spatial datasets that GIS analysis, applications, and field operations all depend on. The GIS Data Administrator works closely with the GIS Developer and GIS team to ensure that data is accurate, well-organized, and reliably accessible across the organization.

Design, build, and administer Fervo’s enterprise geodatabase environment (ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal and ArcGIS Online), including schema design, version management, replica management, and database maintenance.

Define and enforce geodatabase data models, feature class schemas, relationship classes, domains, and topology rules.

Manage geodatabase versioning workflows to support concurrent editing by GIS analysts, developers, and field data collection systems.

Develop and maintain ETL pipelines to ingest, validate, and publish spatial and tabular data from land, engineering, permitting, and operational sources into the enterprise geodatabase.

Build automated data update workflows using Python (Arc Py, arcgis module, pandas) and FME or similar integration tools.

Integrate authoritative external data sources including BLM LR2000, state GIS portals, county assessors, USGS, and FEMA.

Data Governance & Quality Control

Establish and enforce spatial data standards, metadata conventions, naming schemas, and coordinate reference system policies.

Develop and implement automated data validation rules and QA/QC workflows.

Maintain authoritative GIS datasets for land status, federal and state ownership, lease areas, project boundaries, well locations, infrastructure, and operational features across the Western U.S.

Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

4+ years of professional experience in GIS data management, geodatabase administration, or spatial data engineering.

Expert proficiency in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal geodatabase administration.

Hands-on experience with enterprise relational spatial databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS or SQL Server Spatial).

Demonstrated experience building and maintaining automated spatial data pipelines using Python.

Experience with Western U.S. federal and state land data sources (BLM, USFS, state trust land offices, county assessors).

Familiarity with FME or similar ETL platforms.

Background in energy, natural resources, environmental consulting, or land…