GIS Specialist

About Parsons and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a GIS Specialist to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves providing specialized geospatial support across various projects, contributing to the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

Role Overview

The GIS Specialist will lead geospatial activities, focusing on the development, management, and maintenance of GIS databases and geodatabases for major infrastructure, airport, transportation, and utility projects. This role is critical for ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and integration of spatial data throughout the project lifecycle, from design and construction to commissioning and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support across projects.
• Develop, manage, and maintain project GIS databases and geodatabases, including vector, raster, imagery, and terrain datasets.
• Collect, process, validate, analyze, and visualize spatial data, ensuring correct georeferencing and alignment with approved project coordinate systems.
• Maintain accurate GIS layers for project infrastructure, utilities, buildings, roads, pavements, drainage, and other assets.
• Integrate survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite, drone, and field data into GIS platforms.
• Review GIS data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with project requirements; conduct quality assurance and implement corrective actions.
• Establish and maintain GIS data standards, naming conventions, metadata, and data structures, ensuring traceability of datasets.
• Perform spatial analysis to support engineering, construction, planning, logistics, and asset management activities, including proximity, connectivity, accessibility, and site constraints.
• Develop and maintain GIS maps, drawings, dashboards, and visualization products, including thematic maps and interactive dashboards.
• Support project teams with spatial queries, analysis, and geospatial information requirements.
• Coordinate with Survey and BIM teams to ensure data consistency and integration of models and datasets.
• Perform data conversion between different GIS, CAD, and engineering formats; manage geospatial data imports, exports, editing, cleaning, and transformation.
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and spatial conflicts.
• Support the development of automated GIS workflows and data management processes.
• Provide technical guidance to junior GIS staff and project teams.
• Prepare GIS reports, maps, dashboards, and technical presentations; maintain GIS registers, data inventories, and issue logs.
• Support digital handover and asset information requirements, ensuring GIS information remains current and accurate throughout design, construction, commissioning, and handover, and integrates with asset management platforms.
• Specifically for airport and infrastructure projects, develop and maintain GIS datasets for airport terminals, airfield facilities, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, drainage, and external infrastructure, ensuring airport-specific coordinate reference systems are correctly implemented.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in GIS, Geomatics, Surveying, Geography, Civil Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in GIS, geospatial information management, infrastructure mapping, or digital engineering.
• Demonstrated experience working on major infrastructure, airport, transportation, utilities, or multidisciplinary construction projects.

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical capabilities.
• Effective communication skills.
• Excellent coordination abilities.
• Proven problem-solving skills.

Work Environment and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Parsons Corporation cultivates an innovative culture that empowers its employees to achieve their full potential.