GIS Data Administrator

Fervo Energy • Reno, NV

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The GIS Data Administrator owns the integrity, architecture, and governance of Fervo Energy’s enterprise geodatabase and spatial data ecosystem. This role focuses on GIS data infrastructure, administering the geodatabase, building data pipelines, and maintaining authoritative land status, project boundary, and operational spatial datasets used by GIS analysis, applications, and field operations. The administrator works closely with the GIS Developer and GIS team to ensure data is accurate, well-organized, and reliably accessible across the organization.

The role is based at a Fervo office and follows a hybrid schedule, with employees expected to work in the office three days per week. The in-office schedule is an essential function of the role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 4 years of professional experience in GIS data management, geodatabase administration, or spatial data engineering.
• Expert proficiency in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal geodatabase administration.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise relational spatial databases such as PostgreSQL/PostGIS or SQL Server Spatial.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining automated spatial data pipelines using Python.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Western U.S. federal and state land data sources, including BLM, USFS, state trust land offices, and county assessors.
• Familiarity with FME or similar ETL platforms.
• Background in energy, natural resources, environmental consulting, or land development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and administer the enterprise geodatabase environment, including ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal and ArcGIS Online, schema design, version management, replica management, and database maintenance.
• Define and enforce geodatabase data models, feature class schemas, relationship classes, domains, and topology rules.
• Manage geodatabase versioning workflows that support concurrent editing by GIS analysts, developers, and field data collection systems.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines to ingest, validate, and publish spatial and tabular data from land, engineering, permitting, and operational sources into the enterprise geodatabase.
• Build automated data update workflows using Python and FME or similar integration tools.
• Integrate authoritative external data sources, including BLM LR2000, state GIS portals, county assessors, USGS, and FEMA.
• Establish and enforce spatial data standards, metadata conventions, naming schemas, and coordinate reference system policies.
• Develop and implement automated data validation rules and QA/QC workflows.
• Maintain authoritative GIS datasets for land status, federal and state ownership, lease areas, project boundaries, well locations, infrastructure, and operational features across the Western U.S.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with up to 6% employer match.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot.
• Dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses.
• Annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care.
• Employee ownership opportunities through the Employee Stock Purchase Program, stock option grants, and bonus opportunities for eligible roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level