Targa Resources

GIS Support Specialist

GIS Support Specialist
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LocationHouston, TX
Job Typefull time
On-site
Oil and Gas

About This Job

POSITION SUMMARY:

The GIS Support Specialist (“Specialist”) is a skilled in the management and support of one or more applications and provides support services to business users. This is a senior position in the GIS technical support team. The Specialist will act as a Subject Matter Expert for application functionality, solutions, training, and documentation. The primary focus for the Specialist is to be responsible for maintaining and monitoring the GIS environment to maximize availability and performance, provide troubleshooting and corrective action to resolve business issues, and ensures usability and support for application enhancements and bug fixes. This is a technical role and will not be involved in day-to-day functional aspects of GIS. Secondarily the Specialist will provide similar support for other operational systems as needed. Although the position is not a pure development role it will require the use of some development/programmer competencies to complete work efforts for business.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Maintain end-to-end understanding of functional aspects of application and associated business processes.
Working knowledge of networking environments, operating systems, relational databases, application environments, key vendor environments
Lead internal GIS projects to completion
Monitor incoming service requests and incidents for assigned application(s)
Investigate and diagnose service requests or incidents according to their priority/rank and identify the resolution and/or issue.
Work directly with users to identify and resolve issues adversely impacting business processes.
Define technical solutions ensuring considerations for system stability, performance, and ongoing maintainability.
Identify alternative solutions to address issues raised throughout service request or incident lifecycle.
Adheres to and champions the IT Governance programs (e.g. change management, communication, and release management)
Complete high-level designs and associated estimates to meet defined requirements.
Monitor application backlog (service requests, incidents) and keep open items updated with current efforts.
Maintain documentation (run books, technical design, build, deployment, install guides) and process standards in area of responsibility along with regular audits to validate accuracy.
Develop documentation and provide training to users as appropriate.
Define potential improvement changes to resolve errors, prevent the recurrence of problems or improve system maintainability and stability for assigned applications.
Provide input to IT Project Management Office to support clear and concise requirements definitions.
Assist team members handling major incidents for assigned applications; identify the root cause and short- or long-term solutions.
Prevent the replication of problems across multiple systems by sharing lessons learned and best practices with other team members and IT Management.
Develops customer relationships by making efforts to listen to and understand the customer; anticipating and providing solutions to customer needs; giving high priority to customer satisfaction.
Other duties as assigned.


Minimum Essential Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, and/or equivalent work experience in a related field
Proven experience with ESRI technologies, including capacity planning tools, ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS and Custom Widgets
Experience in deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise Solutions.
Experience with GIS industry
Working experience with ESRI UPDM
Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and .NET
Experience in the full-cycle implementations for pipelines with hands-on functional and deployment experience in GIS.
Experience with spatial data management and enterprise database systems
Experience in supporting geostatistical analysis, geoprocessing, and geocoding tools.
Experience with Linear Referencing Systems.
Familiarity with AutoCAD and integration with GIS platforms
Experience supporting COTS applications
Knowledge of pipeline and utility GIS workflows is a strong plus

OTHER QUAIFICATIONS:

In addition to the basic qualifications listed above, the following other position qualifications are preferred:

Good knowledge of the Pipeline Industry.

Experience with integration Platforms like Boomi
ITIL Foundations certified.
Working knowledge and experience in Microsoft Technologies (Microsoft Certifications)
Willingness to travel to company locations (up to 10%)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.

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