Overview
A Principal Consultant will work directly with Esri Cross Division Leadership to define the strategy and goals for a specified Sectors and/or Industries. A Principal Consultant will lead and empower other consultants to enable customer success by providing vision and leadership through the handson enablement of ArcGIS to support critical customer workflows and missions. In addition a Principal Consultant will participate in support and be a leader within the Esri communities with a highly complex scope of risk management business and technology efforts with a focus on expanding the role of GIS and pathways for further growth of Esri employees and customers.
Responsibilities
- Lead highstake large and complex Professional Services engagements projects and programs to implement ArcGIS effectively across a range of time scales
- Partner with Professional Services leadership Business Development staff and other Esri divisions to inspire Sector and Industry leadership to support the growth of ArcGIS into new markets and industries
- Lead and empower others in the scoping management and delivery of successful and impactful proposals and projects
- Provide project engagement support through all levels of management Technical Consulting engagement supports to include executive consulting relationship management and conceptual architecture
- Create and foster internal collaboration to focus on expanding the role of GIS and pathways for further growth of Esri employees and customers
- Work to mitigate challenges through proper escalation and other protocols to achieve project and program completion
- Provide vision and thought leadership regarding consulting risk management project management and technology best practices to advise strategic and highrisk Esri customers on helping them make better decision across all time scales
- Discover and showcase the value of location within customer workflows and drive substantial return on their investment in Esris products and services
- Lead by creating innovative and outstanding proposals and win work with strategic customers in new areas of GIS use
- Act as a resource for colleagues with lesser experience and other staff
- As a lead empower the team by strategically leading all stages of the engagement or project through mentoring active coaching reviewing and aligning of budgets and portfolios risk management and personnel management efforts
Requirements
- 12 years of professional experience in GIS project management and/or GIS consultancy
- Proven experience in engaging creating designing and optimizing enterprise GIS solutions/systems that leverage Esri software products
- Demonstrated proficiency in evaluating understanding and translating highlevel customers business goals objectives and strategies into technical plans and solutions using Esri products
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to deliver highly complex highrisk projects and engagements on time and within budgets
- Strong proficiency in preparing innovative and impactful proposals including preparing executive summaries solution definition scope of services staffing and pricing
- Proven ability to develop and create project and program designs work plans project and program budgets and project and program timelines/schedules
- Demonstrated experience in strategically contributing to goal and strategy definition and planning with Sr. Leadership Executives and Division Leadership
- Ability to engage collaborate facilitate lead and partner with customers internal and external teams and stakeholders
- Professional experience winning new work in collaboration with specified Sector and/or Industry Sales and Business Development teams
- Experience in leading and empowering team activities to include finances budgets personnel and risk management
- Bachelors Degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geography Computer Science Information Systems or related STEM field
Recommended Qualifications
- Experience with ArcGIS locationbased services geoenabled apps spatial analysis or similar geospatial technology
- Experience with current technology implementation patterns including serviceoriented and cloud computing architecture
- Understanding of IT integration concepts such as databases web services webhooks mobile device configurations web browsers IT system architecture concepts
- Masters Degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geography Computer Science Information Systems or related STEM field
Required Experience:
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