We are looking for a motivated GIS Enterprise Technical Analyst to join our team. This role is ideal for someone early in their GIS career who is eager to grow, learn, and contribute to a highly technical enterprise environment. Whether you are just starting out or have a couple of years of experience, this is a great opportunity to build your skills alongside a highly experienced team that supports enterprise GIS systems within Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). Purpose:As part of our IT GIS team, you will help maintain, support, and improve our enterprise GIS platform, working on everything from system administration and application support to data management and integrations with other business systems. You will gain hands-on experience with Esri technologies, enterprise databases, and cloud-based environments, while learning best practices in security, performance, and system reliability. PurposeUnder close supervision, performs the more basic business processes and technical support utilizing SMUD's various enterprise and other integrated technology solutions in the areas of design, configuration, operation, maintenance, and enhancement; assists in serving as a functional resource to the user community to ensure reliability, accessibility and effectiveness to meet the needs of the business unit overall.Nature and ScopeThere are five (5) levels in this job classification series that have similar job content but with progressively more challenging degrees and levels of skill, responsibility, knowledge, experience and qualification requirements: Flex Classifications (that permit progression from lower-level classes to higher level classes without examination based upon assessment of an individual’s experience and performance) within the series: Entry: Incumbent acquires knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level. Intermediate: Incumbent continues to acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level. Journey: Incumbent is demonstrating the required skills and knowledge to independently perform the full scope of the job. Non-Flex Classifications (that promote from lower-level classes to higher level classes and require an examination, such as an interview, based upon individual experience and performance) within the series: Senior: Advanced journey level resource who is responsible for advanced assignments, as dictated by the work needing to be performed; may also serve in a lead capacity. Principal: Subject matter expert/lead level and is responsible for leading the most advanced work, as dictated by the work needing to be performed. Entry/Intermediate to Journey: Incumbents at the entry (or intermediate) level are required to successfully “progress” to the journey level within 60 months of appointment to remain within the job series. Seniors and Principals must be hired through a promotional process and do not automatically progress from lower levels in the series.Duties and Responsibilities Incumbents will focus on the following five specialty areas detailed below: Enterprise Systems Design Enterprise Applications - Modifications and Enhancements Enterprise Applications - Optimization Enterprise System Reporting and Analytics Project Functional/Technical Support Enterprise Systems Design: Learn to design and configure various enterprise technology solutions to support business units; develop designs and define user requirements by collaborating with process owners; address integration issues; develop testing criteria and conduct testing; plan implementation strategies; and communicate technical information to the user community. Enterprise Applications - Modifications and Enhancements: Participate in efforts to assess the need for modification and enhancement to existing enterprise applications by evaluating effectiveness of current technology; guide user group forums; identify needed changes and enhancements; perform workflow and process assessments; identify impacts to business processes; revise user and system requirements; design modifications; prepare change notices; integrate modifications; develop testing criteria and conduct testing; and provide technical consultation and solutions. Enterprise Applications - Optimization: Support efforts to provide overall effectiveness for users; champion and share key practices; provide technical support and user training in the optimal use of enterprise applications systems; troubleshoot user obstacles and provide support; provide technical consultation and options to address issues; and troubleshoot system problems. Enterprise System Reporting and Analytics: Learn to provide business units with access to data, analytics, visualizations required to run and optimize their operation; design user reports, intelligence and visualizations to help business units run; produce standard and custom analytics; develop ad-hoc queries; modify standard forms and analytics; and work with users to define reporting and analytic needs. Project Functional/Technical Support: Assist and support projects and initiatives from a functional and/or technical perspective; refer problems to supervision/management where solutions are not readily achievable; participate in planning, monitoring and revising schedules, work plans, expenditures, and assignments related to the functional/technical department budget; and assist in the functional or technical preparation of procurement or bid documents, evaluation of proposals, and recommendation of awards to contractors or vendors. Perform other related duties as needed to include working outside of typical business hours when necessary.