GIS Developer

Company Overview

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed.

Position Description

Bridgenext is seeking an experienced GIS Developer to design, develop, test, maintain, and enhance geospatial applications and data-management solutions supporting timberland, agriculture, natural resources, and broader land-management operations.

The role requires strong GIS development, spatial-data management, system-integration, automation, and modern web-development capabilities. The GIS Developer will build scalable solutions using the Esri ArcGIS platform, Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure services, and contemporary web technologies to support informed operational and investment decisions.

The successful candidate will collaborate with GIS Analysts, Business Analysts, land managers, forestry and agriculture professionals, Product Owners, and technology teams to translate complex geospatial requirements into secure, reliable, and user-focused solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain GIS web applications, geospatial services, and supporting data solutions.
• Build and support integrations between ArcGIS platforms and enterprise systems, including land-information management, forest operations, reporting, and environmental or safety platforms.
• Develop and maintain ArcGIS geoprocessing tools, Python/ArcPy automation, scheduled workflows, REST APIs, and reusable services for spatial processing and resource-management activities.
• Create, publish, administer, and optimize ArcGIS map services, feature services, geoprocessing services, image services, mobile data services, and offline map packages.
• Develop interactive mapping and responsive GIS applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, with appropriate authentication, authorization, and role-based access controls.
• Support backend and full-stack development for GIS applications using modern APIs, web technologies, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Manage and maintain enterprise geospatial datasets, parcel information, forest inventory, farmland and timberland boundaries, resource data, and related business attributes.
• Support spatial editing workflows for harvesting, regeneration, dispositions, casualty loss, exclusion areas, acreage tracking, leases, inspections, and field operations.
• Develop or support growth-and-yield modeling, forest-inventory analysis, spatial joins, overlays, and other geospatial analytics used in harvest planning and investment decisions.
• Ensure spatial-data integrity and consistency across ArcGIS, enterprise geodatabases, integrated applications, and downstream reporting platforms through validation, verification, and reconciliation controls.
• Write and optimize spatial SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance, including enterprise geodatabase administration, spatial indexing, reporting, migration, and domain management.
• Develop and support big-data geospatial workflows using Databricks, PySpark, GeoPandas, Databricks Mosaic, ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake, and Parquet where applicable.
• Develop solutions for mobile and offline field-data collection using ArcGIS Field Maps, Survey123, Collector, and custom field applications.
• Support Azure Active Directory group synchronization, Single Sign-On, least-privilege access, ArcGIS Portal group governance, and periodic access reviews.
• Participate in solution design, sprint planning, story refinement, estimation, testing, user acceptance, release activities, peer reviews, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving spatial data, map and feature services, application integrations, performance, valuations, reporting, and field workflows.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployments using GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or Harness, Artifactory, and related DevSecOps practices.

Workplace: This is a remote working position open to candidates in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia supporting Eastern timeznoe working hours.

Must Have Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in GIS application development and geospatial technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, and enterprise ArcGIS administration concepts.
• Proficiency in Python and ArcPy for geoprocessing, spatial automation, data migration, and administrative workflows.
• Strong SQL and database-development experience, including spatial data types, enterprise geodatabases/SDE, spatial indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience developing web applications using JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript.
• Knowledge of ArcGIS REST APIs, RESTful service design, system integrations, and secure API consumption.
• Experience creating and supporting map, feature, geoprocessing, image, and mobile/offline GIS services.
• Experience with Databricks, PySpark, GeoPandas, Databricks Mosaic, Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2, Parquet, and large-scale spatial analytics.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-based GIS or application environments.
• Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory, SSO, role-based access, and enterprise security controls.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, spatial-data validation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and translate functional geospatial requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in forestry, timberland, agriculture, natural resources, real assets, or land-management domains.
• Experience with timber harvest applications, forest inventory, growth-and-yield modeling, parcel management, farmland operations, or environmental and safety systems.
• Hands-on experience with ArcGIS Field Maps, Survey123, Collector, mobile field solutions, and offline GIS workflows.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, enterprise data lakes, data governance, and spatially enabled reporting solutions.
• Knowledge of .NET/C#, Java, FastAPI, React Native, Flutter, or other technologies used to integrate GIS with enterprise and mobile applications.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Harness, JFrog Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence.
• Familiarity with ArcMap/Citrix legacy environments and modernization or migration to ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise.

Professional Skills:

• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to explain technical GIS concepts to business and operational stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player who can work effectively with GIS Analysts, Business Analysts, land managers, field teams, and cross-functional technology squads.
• High standards of professionalism, ownership, documentation, code quality, and production support.
• Self-sufficient and organized, with the ability to prioritize concurrent development, support, and data-quality activities.
• Flexible and improvement-oriented, with sound judgment and a practical approach to solving complex spatial and integration problems.

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Canadian citizens and those authorized to work in Canada are encouraged to apply

Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Bridgenext provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as described above. The current salary range for this position is $115,000 - $150,000 CAD annually. Our comprehensive total rewards program goes way beyond a competitive salary.