Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, work to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
Position Overview
As a Senior GIS Production Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and operational oversight within a high‐performing geospatial delivery team responsible for the production, assurance, and continuous improvement of enterprise GIS data and products supporting mission‐critical outcomes. Operating within secure and complex environments, you will take accountability for the reliability, quality, and efficiency of GIS production services. You will apply advanced geospatial engineering, data management, and automation expertise to ensure production workflows are scalable, repeatable, and aligned with customer, contractual, and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will act as a senior technical authority for GIS production, advising stakeholders, guiding less experienced engineers, and ensuring production practices meet defined standards while driving ongoing uplift in production maturity.
Benefits
* Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.
* Family Friendly certified workplace – we understand the many and varied roles our team members play within their unique family setting and actively support them.
Key Responsibilities Include
* Provide technical leadership and end‐to‐end accountability for GIS production activities, ensuring quality, schedule, and compliance objectives are met.
* Define, maintain, and evolve production standards, schemas, workflows, and quality criteria aligned to organisational and customer requirements.
* Apply advanced spatial analysis and geoprocessing techniques to produce, review, and assure complex geospatial products.
* Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated and semi‐automated GIS production pipelines and tooling.
* Act as escalation point for complex production issues, driving root cause analysis, remediation, and risk‐informed technical guidance.
* Drive continuous improvement, operational maturity, documentation, and mentoring to uplift team capability and ensure consistent best practice.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience in GIS production, geospatial data engineering, or enterprise geospatial delivery roles.
* Advanced knowledge of GIS platforms and tools (e.g., Esri ArcGIS suite), including enterprise and production environments.
* Strong expertise in spatial data models, schemas, coordinate reference systems, geodatabases, and metadata standards.
* Demonstrated accountability for geospatial data quality, validation, and assurance in production settings.
* Proven experience designing or leading automated, scalable GIS production workflows and pipelines.
* Strong stakeholder engagement, professional judgement, and commitment to continuous improvement in regulated or enterprise environments.
Eligibility
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for a DISA.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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