Senior GIS Coordinator & Application Developer

Information Systems Specialist 6 (Classification)

Full Time;
Permanent

Representation:
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

FLSA Status:
Exempt, ineligible for overtime or compensatory time.

Monthly Compensation:
The monthly salary range before PERS
* will be $6,182-$9,361; after PERS
* will be $6,609-$10,009

Work Location:

North Mall Office Building, 725 Summer St. NE Suite A, Salem Oregon 97301.

Hybrid/Remote Work:
Hybrid work schedule to be agreed upon with manager.

About the Oregon Water Resources Department

The Oregon Water Resources Department is committed to creating a workplace culture that understands and appreciates differences among people and is welcoming and inclusive to all. By fostering fairness and equity in its work culture, the Department strives to improve services for all Oregonians. We acknowledge that not all people have experienced equitable opportunities or fair treatment. We are committed to increasing our awareness and understanding of historic injustices and building a foundation for meaningful change.

We value a wide range of professional and lived experiences, and people of underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

About our Team/Division

This role is for the Senior GIS Coordinator & Application Developer of the ArcGIS technology team, a small but mighty group within the IT department. This team provides a critical function within the agency in supplying vital geo‑data services, mapping functions and technology modernization services using the ESRI ArcGIS technology product. This technology is both central and enables most of the critical operating functions within the Oregon Water Resources Department.

This role will be an important contributor to the exciting modernization plans which will take technology, and the Oregon Water Resources Department, to the next level!

This position will provide day-to-day support for application design, implementation and migration of applications, scripts and both application and data related systems. It will also be responsible for developing and enforcing development standards and procedures related to application security, data integrity, application traceability, deploy‑ability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery. The position works closely with internal staff and external partners, including state and federal agencies to support application development efforts and ensure compliance with established application development standards.

• Designing, developing, upgrading, and maintaining complex geo-spatial applications, mobile applications and data manipulation code & scripts within the ArcGIS platform, using scripting & .NET technologies.
• Identifying data and service gaps in the existing ArcGIS product and building extensions to the dataset using the ArcGIS API and external databases to meet project and enhancement requirements.
• Building & maintaining data synchronization (ETL) processes between multiple database servers, involving ArcGIS data, in support of all internal application development efforts which depend upon ArcGIS data.

• Five (5) years of information systems experience (specifically in GIS development or coordination);
  OR
• An Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Geography (with a GIS focus), or a related field,
  AND three (3) years of information systems experience;
  OR
• A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Geography (with a GIS focus), or a related field,
  AND one (1) year of information systems experience.

• Professional experience working with ESRI’s ArcGIS Platform
  , including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online.

• 5+ years of advanced experience with ArcGIS Enterprise administration
  , including services, security, and enterprise geodatabase (SDE) management using SQL Server or Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Extensive experience with Python (Arc Py, ArcGIS API for Python) for automation and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows.
• Experience coordinating complex GIS projects across multiple agencies or departments, including requirements gathering and stakeholder…