GIS Developer

Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc. (ESS)•Kansas City, MO

About The Position

The GIS Developer creates reliable tools and applications that reduce manual work, improve data consistency, support field and project teams, and make GIS information easier to access and use. Success also includes strong documentation, thoughtful troubleshooting, and the ability to build scalable workflows that can grow with the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience developing GIS tools, scripts, applications, or automated workflows.
Strong working knowledge of Esri software, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise.
Experience with Python, ArcPy, pandas, or similar scripting/data processing tools.
Understanding of GIS data structures, spatial databases, projections, geoprocessing, feature services, web maps, and spatial analysis.
Ability to work with REST APIs, web services, JSON, and spatial data formats.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently while supporting multiple users, projects, and priorities.
Strong understanding of GIS principles, spatial data management, and web GIS architecture.
Ability to translate business needs into GIS tools, workflows, and applications.
Ability to write clean, maintainable scripts and document technical processes.
Strong attention to detail, especially around data quality, permissions, schema design, and workflow reliability.
Comfortable troubleshooting across GIS, data, web, and user-facing application issues.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both GIS and non-GIS users.
Strong organizational skills and ability to balance development work with support requests.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal, ArcGIS Server, and enterprise geodatabases.
Experience with JavaScript, Arcade, Experience Builder Developer Edition, or ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript.
Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, or other relational databases.
Experience with Civil 3D, CAD data conversion, construction workflows, utility coordination, or infrastructure project data.
Experience with Field Maps, Survey123, mobile data collection, and field-to-office workflows.
Experience developing dashboards, reporting tools, automated notifications, or operational monitoring workflows.
Familiarity with version control systems such as Git or GitHub.
Experience with cloud environments, APIs, scheduled notebooks, or ETL tools.

Responsibilities

Develop, configure, and maintain GIS applications using Esri technologies, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, Experience Builder, Field Maps, Survey123, Dashboards, and StoryMaps.
Create and maintain Python and ArcPy scripts for geoprocessing, data cleanup, publishing workflows, QA/QC, reporting, automation, and scheduled GIS processes.
Support web GIS development using JavaScript, Arcade, HTML/CSS, REST APIs, and the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript.
Design and maintain GIS data models, hosted feature layers, enterprise geodatabases, domains, subtypes, relationship classes, attribute rules, editor tracking, and standardized schemas.
Build integrations between GIS platforms and other systems, including APIs, databases, asset tracking systems, project management systems, CAD data, equipment tracking systems, and field data collection tools.
Develop automated workflows for data intake, validation, transformation, publishing, reporting, notifications, and map updates.
Support CAD-to-GIS and GIS-to-CAD workflows, including Civil 3D data, utility data, surfaces, pipe networks, alignments, 3D features, and construction/project deliverables.
Create and maintain web maps, web scenes, dashboards, story maps, and Experience Builder applications for internal and external stakeholders.
Troubleshoot GIS application issues, service errors, publishing failures, permissions, data inconsistencies, performance issues, and user access problems.
Collaborate with GIS administrators and IT to support ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal, server services, user roles, sharing settings, data security, and environment configuration.
Document workflows, tools, scripts, standards, and user instructions to support repeatable processes and team knowledge sharing.
Assist with training GIS staff and end users on tools, applications, workflows, and best practices.