AECOM is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative GIS Director to lead and manage geospatial initiatives across multiple infrastructure and utility projects and will be located in Denver, CO. This role will be responsible for overseeing GIS staff, coordinating cross-functional workflows, and ensuring the integrity and interoperability of spatial data across GIS, BIM, and asset management platforms. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and a passion for solving complex data challenges in support of client-facing and operational goals.Key Responsibilities:<ul><li>Team Leadership &amp; Resource Management</li><li>Supervise and mentor GIS staff, delegating tasks across concurrent projects.</li><li>Manage workload distribution and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.</li><li>Workflow Documentation &amp; Integration</li><li>Design and document data workflows between GIS, BIM (e.g., Revit, Civil 3D), and asset management systems (e.g., Maximo, Cityworks).</li><li>Ensure data interoperability and traceability across platforms.</li><li>Schema Management &amp; Data Governance</li><li>Maintain and update GIS data schemas tailored to various client requirements.</li><li>Enforce data standards, validation rules, and version control protocols.</li><li>Cityworks Configuration &amp; Support</li><li>Understand and support Cityworks configurations, including service request workflows, asset hierarchies, and spatial integrations.</li><li>Collaborate with asset management teams to align GIS data with operational needs.</li><li>Client Engagement &amp; Facilitation</li><li>Lead client-facing workshops and discovery sessions with cross-functional groups including IT, engineering, planning, and operations.</li><li>Translate technical concepts into actionable strategies for stakeholders.</li><li>Data Development Strategy</li><li>Evaluate and implement the right balance between automated data processing (e.g., ETL tools, scripts) and manual editing.</li><li>Optimize data development workflows for efficiency and accuracy.</li><li>Provides technical and management leadership for a discipline or area of responsibility. </li><li>Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative. </li><li>Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with senior-level managers within the company and with key officials of other organizations and companies, and is skilled in persuasion and negotiation of critical issues. </li><li>At this level, individuals will have demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature technical judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual structure/design problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse activities. </li><li>Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.</li></ul>

AECOM is the world&rsquo;s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle &ndash; from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

GIS Director

AECOM is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative GIS Director to lead and manage geospatial initiatives across multiple infrastructure and utility projects and will be located in Denver, CO. This role will be responsible for overseeing GIS staff, coordinating cross-functional workflows, and ensuring the integrity and interoperability of spatial data across GIS, BIM, and asset management platforms. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and a passion for solving complex data challenges in support of client-facing and operational goals.Key Responsibilities:<ul><li>Team Leadership &amp; Resource Management</li><li>Supervise and mentor GIS staff, delegating tasks across concurrent projects.</li><li>Manage workload distribution and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.</li><li>Workflow Documentation &amp; Integration</li><li>Design and document data workflows between GIS, BIM (e.g., Revit, Civil 3D), and asset management systems (e.g., Maximo, Cityworks).</li><li>Ensure data interoperability and traceability across platforms.</li><li>Schema Management &amp; Data Governance</li><li>Maintain and update GIS data schemas tailored to various client requirements.</li><li>Enforce data standards, validation rules, and version control protocols.</li><li>Cityworks Configuration &amp; Support</li><li>Understand and support Cityworks configurations, including service request workflows, asset hierarchies, and spatial integrations.</li><li>Collaborate with asset management teams to align GIS data with operational needs.</li><li>Client Engagement &amp; Facilitation</li><li>Lead client-facing workshops and discovery sessions with cross-functional groups including IT, engineering, planning, and operations.</li><li>Translate technical concepts into actionable strategies for stakeholders.</li><li>Data Development Strategy</li><li>Evaluate and implement the right balance between automated data processing (e.g., ETL tools, scripts) and manual editing.</li><li>Optimize data development workflows for efficiency and accuracy.</li><li>Provides technical and management leadership for a discipline or area of responsibility.&nbsp;</li><li>Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative.&nbsp;</li><li>Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with senior-level managers within the company and with key officials of other organizations and companies, and is skilled in persuasion and negotiation of critical issues.&nbsp;</li><li>At this level, individuals will have demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature technical judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual structure/design problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse activities.&nbsp;</li><li>Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.</li></ul>

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