Senior Manager, Geospatial Technology

Description

• Assist the business with marketing, communications, and business development descriptions and activities from a technology perspective as needed.
• Lead, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the Geospatial Technology group. This includes aligning the group to the Digital Engineering Solutions team’s goals and objectives. This further includes providing guidance, instruction, training, and leadership skills to inspire the group to perform at their optimum, working efficiently together and maximizing the team’s potential.
• Be a collaborative partner to our business line stakeholders by understanding the business needs, the key strategic objectives of the business line stakeholders, and what those stakeholders need to achieve their strategic objectives. Be seen by the business line stakeholders as an extension of their team.
• Help lead vendor relationships such as Esri. Help establish relationships with other geospatial technology vendors as applicable.
• Provide oversight and management of the various geospatial technology efforts for AEC-related needs.
• Establish common standards, best practices, etc. for CDM Smith’s AEC practices from a geospatial technology perspective. Work closely with CDM Smith’s Information Technology team and support the IT infrastructure, cyber security, and other IT-related organizational policies.
• Help to identify and prioritize business use cases.
• Assist with internal and external website descriptions and strategic company communications campaigns as needed.
• Present to both internal and external audiences as needed.
• Help drive the business strategy, working with leadership to identify and prioritize problems best suited for custom solution and workflow development. Effectively translate business challenges into advanced digital solutions and help quantify the various types of risks and rewards for solutions to be prioritized.
• Manage staff, evaluate performance, mentor, and plan career paths, approve paid time off (PTO) and training, ensure human resources (HR) policies are followed and make recommendations regarding staffing decisions.
• Motivate and inspire the Geospatial Technology group by creating an environment that promotes positive communication, encourages bonding of group members (both within the Geospatial Technology group and across the broader team as a whole), and demonstrates flexibility.

Requirements

• Business-oriented with a solid understanding of business requirements and vernacular.
• Advanced organizational and decision-making skills. Highly detailed or less detailed as appropriate.
• Display excellent interpersonal skills to build quality relationships with the team and across the organization, be goal-driven, and manage the day-to-day activities of the team efficiently.
• Innovative and able to imagine new solutions to any problem.
• 12 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years in a supervisory or leadership capacity.
• Ability to operate in a high-energy, high-intensity, and evolving environment.
• Proven leadership capabilities with the ability to organize, plan, prioritize, and to manage time and changing priorities.
• Expert knowledge and proven ability to plan and oversee large and highly complex geospatial technology programs and projects. Inquisitive, with a desire to ask questions and gain a deeper understanding of business issues.
• Advanced ability to understand the function and capabilities of new technology trends. Curious. Stays abreast of current and upcoming technologies and tools.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Ability to develop a deep knowledge of business units and build positive relationships, both horizontally and vertically. Passionate about helping business lines drive their success with custom digital tools.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a college degree.
• Possesses excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to interact with varying levels of staff, including senior management and vendors. Ability to communicate well with people from both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Passionate about creating clarity by using accessible language.
• Confident in challenging perceptions and biases of individuals diplomatically at every level of the organization to enact improvements.
• Expert ability to lead teams of managers and staff. Team-oriented, positive, collaborative and reliable, actively communicating, listening, and being accountable and respectful to others.
• Ability to listen, build rapport, and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit, as well as with leadership and functional teams.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance