GIS Specialist - Infrastructure Geospatial Systems

Job Snapshot

• Role: GIS Specialist - Infrastructure Geospatial Systems
• Location:
  
  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Industry: Information Services
• Function:
  Information Technology
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 8 years
• Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview GIS Specialist - Infrastructure Geospatial Systems in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an Information Services opportunity with Parsons Corporation focused on geospatial data management, infrastructure mapping, spatial analysis, GIS-BIM integration, and digital asset information across airport and major infrastructure projects. The role is hiring an experienced GIS professional to manage enterprise and project geodatabases, integrate survey and engineering data, maintain accurate spatial records, develop analytical maps and dashboards, and support digital handover throughout design, construction, commissioning, and asset operations.

• Country:
  Saudi Arabia
• City:
  Riyadh
• Industry: Information Services
• Function:
  Information Technology
• Salary:
• Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
• Gender: Any
• Candidate Nationality:
  Any
• Job Type: Full-time

The GIS Specialist will provide the geospatial information framework required to connect engineering designs, survey information, utilities, construction progress, existing infrastructure, and final asset records within a coordinated digital environment. The position combines GIS database administration, spatial analysis, quality assurance, visualization, survey integration, BIM coordination, and asset information management. Accurate geospatial control in this role will help project teams identify spatial conflicts earlier, improve infrastructure coordination, strengthen construction planning, and create dependable as-built information for long-term operations.

• Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Develop, administer, and maintain project-level and enterprise geodatabases.
• Collect, process, validate, analyze, transform, and visualize spatial information from multiple project sources.
• Maintain accurate GIS layers covering roads, buildings, utilities, pavements, drainage systems, airport facilities, and other infrastructure assets.
• Integrate survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite imagery, drone data, and field observations into approved GIS environments.
• Verify that spatial information is correctly georeferenced and aligned with established coordinate reference systems.
• Review GIS datasets for accuracy, completeness, consistency, duplication, and compliance with project requirements.
• Establish spatial data structures, naming conventions, metadata requirements, validation rules, and information standards.
• Perform spatial analysis to support engineering, construction, planning, logistics, asset management, and management decision-making.
• Produce thematic maps, drawings, analytical outputs, interactive dashboards, and geospatial visualizations.
• Respond to spatial queries and provide project teams with reliable geospatial information for technical and operational requirements.
• Coordinate with Survey teams to maintain consistency between survey control, benchmarks, coordinates, and GIS datasets.
• Integrate topographical surveys, GPS observations, as-built surveys, and field verification information into GIS.
• Coordinate with BIM teams to align federated model information with GIS datasets where required.
• Support integration between GIS, BIM, CAD, Common Data Environments, and asset management platforms.
• Convert information between GIS, CAD, engineering, raster, and vector formats while protecting spatial accuracy and attribute integrity.
• Manage imports, exports, editing, cleaning, transformation, updates, revisions, and approval status of geospatial data.
• Maintain complete metadata and traceability for GIS datasets throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify spatial conflicts between existing infrastructure, new works, utilities, construction zones, and project interfaces.
• Conduct GIS quality assurance reviews and coordinate corrective action for inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Develop automated workflows for repetitive GIS processing, data validation, transformation, and reporting where appropriate.
• Maintain GIS registers, data inventories, issue logs, quality reports, and supporting technical records.
• Provide technical guidance to junior GIS staff and project personnel using geospatial information.
• Prepare GIS reports, analytical maps, technical presentations, and management visualization products.
• Maintain spatial datasets for airport terminals, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, airside facilities, landside areas, utilities, drainage, and external infrastructure.
• Support airport-wide infrastructure databases and geospatial asset information.
• Coordinate utility mapping for water, sewerage, stormwater, electrical, telecommunications, and other underground networks.
• Support mapping and comparison of existing and proposed…