Geospatial and Digital Innovation Development Leader
True Environmental · United States · remote
Matrix New World Engineering, a part of True Environmental and its partner firms, have united their strengths to establish the nation's premier environmental and engineering services consulting firm. This powerhouse organization offers an extensive range of services aimed at revolutionizing the built environment and preserving the natural one. Its diverse expertise encompasses environmental remediation, urban planning, engineering iconic coastal and marine structures, developing sustainable energy sources, and pioneering resource extraction methods. Explore further at www.MWNE.com and True-Environmental.com to discover the full scope of our capabilities.
What You Will Do:
- Act as the U.S. technical lead for geospatial and digital solutions, embedded across environmental engineering, marine and coastal, water resources, natural resources, mining, federal programs, and litigation support.
- Partner with each practice to map current workflows, identify where spatial data and automation can remove manual effort or improve decision quality, and prioritize a development backlog.
- Establish firm-wide standards for geodatabase design, metadata, data governance, QA/QC, and deliverable formats so geospatial output is consistent regardless of practice or office.
- Coordinate with Canadian geomatics and digital solutions teams to align platforms, share reusable tools, and avoid duplicated development across borders.
- Serve as technical reviewer for geospatial deliverables and provide expert input on proposals when practices need a defined digital scope.
- Design and build enterprise geodatabases, web-mapping applications, custom dashboards, and digital-twin platforms that integrate 2D/3D mapping, asset inventories, document repositories, point clouds, BIM/Revit models, and inspection and monitoring records.
- Develop repeatable analytical tools and workflows for recurring project needs, for example: cut/fill and dredging analysis, discharge and runout modeling, routing and constraint analysis, contaminant plume and exceedance visualization, impervious surface and flood-exposure analysis, and automated regulatory reporting (figures, tables, EDDs).
- Build and maintain field data collection applications (Survey123, Field Maps, Fulcrum, or custom) and the pipelines that move field data into enterprise databases and client deliverables.
- Integrate real-time and external data sources (IoT sensors, AIS, weather and environmental feeds, bathymetric and LiDAR scans) into living data products.
- Automate with Python, SQL, JavaScript, ModelBuilder, and FME; convert legacy CAD/MicroStation, Access, Excel, and PDF data into spatially enabled databases.
- Evaluate and pilot emerging capabilities, including GeoAI and LLM-assisted data compilation and metadata generation, automated defect and change detection from imagery and point clouds, open-source geospatial stacks, cloud deployment, and immersive/XR visualization, and establish practical, governed paths to adoption.
- Direct reality-capture programs in coordination with field teams: terrestrial and bathymetric LiDAR, sonar, UAS photogrammetry and inspection.
- Identify project-built tools that can be hardened into reusable firm assets or client-facing products.
- Develop SOPs, written and video tutorials, and training programs so practice staff can use and maintain the tools you build.
- Mentor GIS analysts and developers across practices on development practices, database design, and scripting; you will influence and guide, not line-manage, these staff.
- Represent True Environmental’s geospatial and digital capabilities with clients, agencies, and at industry user groups and conferences.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geospatial Science, Environmental Science/Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
- 15+ years of progressive geospatial and application-development experience, with substantial time as technical lead on multidisciplinary projects in an environmental, engineering, AEC, or public-sector setting.
- GISP certification (or ability to obtain within 12 months).
- Deep expertise in the Esri platform: ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Server, ArcGIS Online, Experience Builder, Survey123, Field Maps, 3D/Spatial Analyst.
- Proven development skills: Python, SQL (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server), JavaScript (Esri JS API, Leaflet, Node.js), and relational database design.
- Demonstrated track record of building web applications, dashboards, and enterprise GIS infrastructure that measurably improved delivery efficiency or client decision-making.
- Experience integrating field data collection platforms with enterprise geodatabases and downstream modeling or reporting tools.
- Ability to work across disciplines: elicit requirements from non-GIS staff, explain technical trade-offs clearly, and deliver tools people actually adopt.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing digital-twin or asset-management platforms integrating point clouds, BIM, and inspection data (ports, utilities, transportation, or facilities).
- Hands-on reality-capture experience: LiDAR, bathymetric/sonar survey, UAS operations (FAA Part 107), photogrammetry, 3D modeling.
- Open-source geospatial and cloud experience (QGIS, MapServer, GeoServer, PostGIS; Azure or AWS).
- Experience applying AI/ML or LLM-assisted tooling to geospatial data compilation, defect detection, or metadata generation.
- Integration experience with EAM/BIM platforms (e.g., Maximo, Autodesk Forma) and CAD/MicroStation conversion via FME.
- Experience with 3D visualization, immersive/XR, or interactive training content for stakeholder engagement.
- Experience working across distributed, multi-office, or cross-border teams.
Why True Environmental:
- A firm-wide mandate to build, backed by more than 700 engineers, scientists, planners, and surveyors across 20+ offices who want to use what you create.
- Work that matters: Superfund cleanup, coastal resilience, offshore wind, port infrastructure, water quality, wildfire planning, and federal programs.
- Direct line to executive leadership through the Chief Operating Officer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.