GIS Data Manager

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Job Description

Location: Podium, London or Snow Hill, Birmingham

Salary Base salary: £41,750pa to £49,100pa (London) or £38,550pa to £45,350pa (Birmingham) depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a GIS Data Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for the management of HS2's Enterprise Geodatabase, a critical component of HS2's Common Data Environment (CDE) and the repository for HS2's Geographic Information to deliver HS2 Digital Engineering objectives.

The role will manage a technical team, engaging with various internal programme stakeholders and core external 3rd party data suppliers to ensure a consistent and controlled version of approved geographic information is maintained, shared and managed throughout the HS2 programme in line with the HS2 Digital Engineering strategy.

About the role:

• Manage and develop a technical GIS data management team to ensure a consistent and controlled version of approved geographic information is maintained, shared and managed throughout the HS2 programme.
• Responsible for ensuring all aspects of the HS2 Enterprise GIS Geodatabase are fully documented and an effective data management plan is developed, implemented, and regularly reviewed to ensure data security, integrity, quality, and auditability.
• Specify, manage, and review GIS data standards, data schema specifications, quality and assurance procedures.
• Responsible for defining HS2s geographic information data model in collaboration with the Digital Engineering Data Modeler and Data Quality Manager to support HS2s information requirements.
• Manage data exchanges of geographic information and HS2 GIS open data releases, ensuring deliverables are compliant to HS2 standards, procedures and requirements.
• Responsible for managing 3rd party data updates and acquisitions, related licensing, copyrights and agreements, and report on the data procurement budgeting.
• Responsible for the management of data conversion and/or transformation.
• Identify and implement changes to workflows and quality processes to improve data quality and the efficiency and effectiveness of information exchange processes.
• Contribute to the management, administration, and configuration of the enterprise GIS platform.
• Promote the Digital Engineering strategy and uptake of GIS in all areas and provide training and deliver presentations to both internal and external audiences.
• Proactively engage and liaise with internal and external stakeholders to identify and implement value-added GIS techniques to realise cost-savings and efficiencies as part of the Digital Engineering Strategy.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Team management.
• Data governance, management, manipulation, modelling and metadata management.
• Database design, development, and implementation.
• Data quality techniques and processes.
• Standards, procedure, and specification production.
• Automation and integration.
• Interpersonal skills to motivate and develop the team.
• Stakeholder Management - Identification of stakeholders, analysis of their expectations and requirements, and development of appropriate strategies to work with stakeholders.
• Communication - Ability to manage relations with both internal and external stakeholders. Good negotiation skills to manage expectations

Knowledge:

• Educated in GIS, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field to at least degree level or equivalent and/or a track record demonstrating professional development.
• Knowledge of information governance and data management practices is essential.
• Knowledge of the requirements of ISO19650, ISO 8000-150, UK Gemini & ISO 19115.
• Knowledge of UK national data resources and public sector agreements, such as the Ordnance Survey PSGA, HM Land Registry, etc

Types of Experience

• Experience in GIS information and database management, preferably in the rail industry or linear assets.
• Experience of object relational databases and spatial databases.
• Experience of ESRI ArcGIS Server and SDE administration (preferably SQL server implementation).
• Experience of Safe FME (preferably server version).
• Experience of Scripting (preferably Python).
• Experience of managing large volumes of data.
• Experience in working with open, and /or proprietary data formats, and web map services.
• Experience of large construction/infrastructure projects (In particular Rail).

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.