Job Description

Job Title: GIS Analyst

Period - 14th April 2025 31st March, 2026 - can be extended by 24 months.

Work Location: Edmonton , Alberta

Description:

Project Name:

Alberta Broadband Strategy

Scope:

Reporting to the Senior Manager Program Supports, the Broadband GIS Analyst is responsible for providing direct and indirect support for all broadband programs within Technology and Innovation, including but not limited to the Universal Broadband Fund and the Alberta Broadband Fund, as well as for applicable Ministry mandate items. Broadband programs are often complex and highly visible to industry, the public, and other orders of government, with significant budgets associated with them.

The successful resource will play a crucial role in supporting the Alberta Broadband Strategy and related programs by analyzing and reporting on program and project information, network provider coverage and supporting data using their expert GIS skills. This involves making contributions to and taking responsibility for comprehensive analysis, creation of GIS-related products, and offering general support for existing and future broadband programs and mandate items.

Duties:

In this role, the GIS Analyst provides expertise in instrumentation and spatial data collection, data-driven storytelling, statistical analysis, modelling and data visualizations, and mapping applications. Creates plans and strategies that will identify the various linkages between new and existing data forms, resulting in the integration of data models, and presentation of statistical analysis and data visualizations to help understand and improve service delivery online and offline.

This position will play a crucial role in managing and analyzing spatial data to support the broadband initiatives. This GIS Analyst will work at the intersection of data analysis, programming, and cartography. Here are some detailed job duties:

• Designing data extraction, transformation and loading solutions in accordance with geospatial data architecture, framework, principles, models, standards, guidelines
• Bringing together disparate geospatial data and providing analysis on how geospatial features interact
• Transforming data into actionable insights through data Extraction, Transforming and Loading (ETL) to solution interpretation
• Extracting, locating and analyzing geographic data using GIS tools and scripting languages
• Developing GIS data integration & conversion workflows using scripting languages and tools
• Implementing spatial analysis using the most comprehensive set of analytical methods and algorithms available
• Executing analytical models on a schedule so organization operates on the most up-to-date data
• Automate repetitive tasks and streamline GIS processes to enhance productivity and efficiency
• Creating and executing raster analysis models on existing imagery, rasters, and GIS data
• Creating mapping products for spatial analysis using GIS tools and scripting languages
• Develop interactive web maps and applications for data dissemination and decision support
• Producing data visualizations using multiple data sets to customize the information for specific business needs
• Conduct spatial analysis to identify patterns and trends in geographical data
• Perform geostatistical analysis to make predictions based on geographic data
• Create models to simulate real-world scenarios and forecast future events
• Assisting in feasibility studies by providing visual resources and data analysis to inform policymakers and stakeholders on broadband access and adoption
• Preparing reports of geographical statistics based on spatial data
• Creating enterprise geodatabases in relation database systems using tools and scripts
• Creating and managing workflows, scripts to integrate structured geographic data sets from various sources into an enterprise relational database management systems
• Creating and managing workflows to integrate various GIS projections
• Creating and managing scripts to maintain geodatabase integrity and performance
• Compile spatial data sets for a variety of sources including Global Positioning System (GPS) data, field observations, satellite images, and environmental monitoring data.
• Managing security around geodatabases
• Identifying opportunities to automate data transformation and integration tasks and propose solutions
• Verifying survey data and map information
• Establish data maintenance workflows and versioning strategies to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Develop Map Services, Geoprocessing service, Image services and Geocode services
• Other responsibilities as required or requested

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