GIS Practice Lead — Canada (Digital Practice) 

Overview

AtkinsRéalis, a global engineering consultancy, is unifying our geospatial capability under a new Digital Practice to elevate visibility, integrate solutions (GIS + AI/BIM/LiDAR), and deliver holistic outcomes for clients. We’re hiring a GIS Practice Lead to steward strategy, people, platforms, and delivery across Canada—partnering closely with Environment, Mining, Energy, and Nuclear business lines. 
 
You will lead a national, bilingual team operating ArcGIS Enterprise (Azure) and ArcGIS Online, delivering cartography, web and mobile apps, data management, and automation. You’ll also orchestrate work-sharing with our India office for competitive bids and 24-hour delivery, and coordinate with our UK-based IT for platform operations. 

Your role

• Set the vision: Define and execute the Canada GIS strategy within the Digital Practice—roadmaps, capabilities, staffing, and investment. 
• Lead the team: Manage ~20 GIS professionals (mentoring, hiring, performance, career paths), fostering an inclusive, bilingual culture of excellence and safety. 
• Own platforms: Oversee ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure and AGOL—reliability, security, licensing, data governance, and standards (naming, metadata, symbology, QA/QC). 
• Deliver solutions: Stand up scalable web mapping apps, mobile data collection, automations (FME/Python), and enterprise data pipelines that serve multi‑disciplinary projects. 
• Integrate “Digital by default”: Build packaged offerings that combine GIS with AI, BIM, LiDAR, hydrographic & surveying, accelerating proposal win‑rates and margin. 
• Enable workshare: Operationalize Canada↔India collaboration (scope split, SLAs, QA gates, training, playbooks) to sharpen bid pricing and throughput. 
• Partner across regions: Coordinate with UK IT for cloud ops and cybersecurity; collaborate with US and Middle East peer teams on methods, tooling, and reuse. 
• Drive business outcomes: Support capture and proposals, estimate LOE, create rate cards, and track KPIs (chargeability, on-time delivery, quality, client satisfaction). 
• Champion data governance: Ensure compliance with client and Canadian data residency/privacy requirements; implement retention and access policies. 
• Improve continuously: Introduce delivery playbooks, reusable templates, CI/CD for geospatial services, and post‑project learnings. 
• Represent the practice: Act as the senior GIS voice with clients and internal stakeholders; coach PMs on where geospatial adds value. 

About you

• 10+ years in applied GIS delivering enterprise solutions in engineering, infrastructure, or environmental domains; 5+ years leading teams or practices. 
• Deep expertise with ArcGIS Enterprise (preferably on Azure) and ArcGIS Online: administration, security, integrations, and performance. 
• Strong knowledge of FME and/or Python/ArcGIS API/REST, mobile data collection (e.g., Field Maps/Survey123), and web mapping frameworks. 
• Proven experience building governance and standards (data models, symbology, metadata, QA/QC) in multi‑project environments. 
• Track record working in matrixed, multinational organizations and managing workshare/offshore delivery models with SLAs and quality gates. 
• Business acumen: proposal support, estimating, resourcing, KPI management (chargeability, utilization, backlog). 
• Bilingual (French & English) strongly preferred; ability to lead a majority‑francophone team and serve anglophone stakeholders. *
• Degree in Geomatics, GIS, Geography, Engineering, or related; graduate degree and/or P.Eng./ing./GISP/OIQ an asset. 
• Knowledge of Energy/Nuclear, Mining, Environment project lifecycles and associated data sensitivity/compliance is an advantage. 

• Azure fundamentals (AAD, VNets, security groups), DevOps concepts (CI/CD, IaC), and M365/SharePoint integration. 
• Experience integrating GIS with BIM (IFC), point clouds/LiDAR, AI/ML, and survey/hydrographic data. 
• Familiarity with Canadian and client data residency/PII requirements; export controls and background checks for sensitive sites. 

*  Member of the Canadian or Global Leadership Team: This position requires knowledge of a language other than French, namely English, as it involves collaboration with members of the Canadian or global leadership team located outside Québec.

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