GIS Platform Lead

Salary: £39,862 - 42,839 per year

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Essential experience with Esri ArcGIS
• Knowledge of additional geospatial or data tools would be an advantage
• Strong experience in planning and delivering ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, including managing dependencies, minimising downtime, and ensuring component compatibility
• Experience using monitoring tools such as ArcGIS Monitor or a similar tool to identify performance or reliability issues early
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Experience working with systems and people in a largely remote environment
• Experience with Python and the ArcPy module for automation processes

Responsibilities

• Lead the support, maintenance, and development of our corporate GIS platform (ArcGIS)
• Manage geospatial data across the Council, ensuring it is accurate, up to date, and well governed
• Deliver mapping products and spatial analysis to support services and decision-making
• Provide high-quality support and guidance to GIS users across the organisation
• Define and promote GIS standards, best practices, and ways of working
• Deliver training and build GIS capability within teams
• Facilitate collaboration through GIS user groups and forums
• Identify and deliver innovative GIS solutions to meet business needs
• Develop and maintain automation processes using Python
• Create and maintain documentation essential to the success of GIS

Technologies

• Business Intelligence
• GIS
• Support
• Python

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We are Brighton & Hove City Councils IT & Digital team, a diverse and talented group working closely across data solutions, business intelligence, analytics, and digital development. We offer a respectful, supportive, and collaborative working environment with a flexible workplace, including full-time, part-time, and compressed hours, and our teams are currently working largely remotely. The successful applicant may work flexibly and attend the office where service demands require it, with office accommodation available if working from home is not possible. This is an exciting opportunity to help transform how we use mapping and geospatial data to support services and decision-making.

last updated 28 week of 2026