Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Senior GIS Developer, where you will focus on designing and developing the next generation of GIS and mapping solutions that will enable critical elements of the Historic England Digital Strategy and future work programmes.  You will use your design, development and configuration experience of working across the ESRI enterprise product stack, to build exciting GIS web applications for a variety of business purposes.

You will play a key role in maintaining GIS applications and their underlying data stores and services to operational commitments and the continuing fulfilment of business need.

What you will be doing

Design, develop and implement GIS applications using ESRI development tools and services, including ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript.

Develop and maintain geospatial databases and data models using ESRI tools, such as ArcCatalog and ArcGIS Pro.

Collaborate with other developers, GIS analysts, project team members and internal business users to identify requirements and design solutions.

Analyse and troubleshoot GIS applications to identify and resolve issues.

Develop custom tools and scripts to automate workflows and improve efficiency.

Regularly liaise with HE IMT Development team leaders to ensure internal software development standards, policies and process are followed and maintained.

Integrate GIS applications with other business systems, such as Microsoft .NET and Dynamics 365 based applications.

Manage and maintain GIS data in a variety of formats.

Create and maintain technical documentation for GIS applications and systems.

Stay up-to-date with new GIS technologies, tools, and industry trends.

Participate in project planning, estimation and delivery.

Ensure that new solutions developed are aligned to HE’s commitment to Net Zero, where appropriate.

Who we are looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, GIS, or similar qualification

• Experience of developing and supporting web maps and applications using ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript and Experience Builder

• Expertise with ESRI GIS software, including ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Enterprise

• Programming skills in Python and/ or familiarity with other programming languages

• Able to effective plan and organise project products, displaying attention to detail.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Interview dates: Early June 2024 - MS Teams

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/m33flihs/senior-gis-developer.odt