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GIS Admin / GIS COTS Specialist - Remote, PA
GIS Admin / GIS COTS Specialist - Remote, PA
Submission Due Date: 02/11/2026
Client - State of PA
Remote
This position serves three key roles within the organization:
Provide direct support of PA Department of Agriculture GIS systems and guide architectural decisions
Development, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) GIS products such as, ESRI Field Maps, ESRI Survey123, ESRI Collector, ESRI Operations Dashboard, etc.
Assist as high-level administrator for GIS systems and data
Description:
- Advise and assist in GIS architecture solutioning
- Develops, configures, deploys, and maintains GIS COTS solutions such as ESRI Survey123, ESRI Collector, etc.
- Performs hardware and software installations, relocations, testing and routine maintenance.
- Leads efforts to troubleshoot CADD/GIS system hardware and software problems.
- Expertise in teaching/conveying technical and/or functional courses/concepts and developing training related materials.
- Demonstrates proven experience in troubleshooting with little supervision.
- Assists in developing documentation, standards, and direction for systems.
- Assists in troubleshooting GIS system hardware problems and works with the appropriate service and warranty vendors to make the necessary repairs and fixes.
- Tracks version upgrades and notifies proper parties of available updates to GIS Systems software.
- Assists with resolving IT helpdesk tickets, phone and online problem reporting and maintaining problem report records.
- Maintains current inventory of all hardware, software, upgrades and fixes for each site.
- Maintains configuration charts of current inventory.
- Maintains data backups and data archives and provides data retrieval from backup.
- Monitors system status and data integrity.
- Able to communicate status to managers and project sponsors.
Qualifications
- 2 years previous experience designing, configuring, and administering ESRI COTS products including Survey123, Dashboard, Field Maps.
- 2 years previous experience administering an ESRI ArcGIS Online organization.