Gis Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• GIS degree, certificate, and/or 1-5 years of relevant GIS experience in a professional setting
• Quantitative undergraduate degree (e.g., Geography, Environmental Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Data Science)
• Proficiency in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online; experience managing hosted layers, pipelines, and organizational content
• Proficiency with Python for geospatial tasks (e.g., GeoPandas, Shapely) and comfort with GitHub-based and AI-supported software development workflows
• Strong attention to data quality; ability to troubleshoot CRS mismatches, invalid geometries, and schema changes
• Excellent communication skills and alignment with Lightshift’s core values (Innovative, Collaborative, Trustworthy)

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting renewable energy or battery storage development — including parcel screening, interconnection, siting, or land acquisition workflows
• Familiarity with grid infrastructure data sources and energy community datasets
• Experience building or maintaining Streamlit or similar lightweight web applications
• Exposure to PostGIS or other spatial databases

Responsibilities

• Lead parcel-level site screening and constraint analysis to support BESS development across target states
• Administer ArcGIS Online (AGOL) — manage users, hosted layers, web maps, dashboards, and data pipelines; maintain organized, production-ready content
• Build and maintain siting notebooks and Python-based geospatial scripts
• Integrate data from vendors into Lightshift’s GIS platform and manage vendor relationships
• Produce maps and spatial exports for commercial, development and leadership presentations
• Maintain the multi-state GIS data library and state-specific project data in SharePoint and GitHub
• Coordinate annual vendor contract renewals and update recurring datasets on a regular cadence
• Monitor new developments across the GIS and energy industries that can improve Lightshift’s analytics toolset
• Conceptualize and execute enhanced analytic approaches and strategic initiatives to improve company siting, strategy, and competitive advantage

Benefits

• 401k
• health/dental/vision insurance
• paid vacation
• paid sick leave
• paid holidays
• short-term disability