Senior GIS Specialist

Role Overview

• Lead and manage all GIS technical deliverables across multiple projects, ensuring timely, high-quality outputs aligned with client requirements and company standards. **
• Oversee the full GIS workflow, from data acquisition and processing to final integration into immersive environments. **
• Maintain strict adherence to standardised data structures, schemas, naming conventions, and metadata protocols for all geospatial datasets. **
• Develop, implement, and enforce best-practice GIS data management policies to ensure consistency, accuracy, and scalability. **
• Perform advanced geospatial data processing, cleaning, transformation, and quality assurance using ArcGIS, QGIS, or similar platforms. **
• Prepare and optimise GIS datasets (vector, raster, elevation/DEM, 3D features, and attribute data) for ingestion into Unreal Engine. **
• Utilise Unreal Engine tools and plugins (e.g. ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine) to import, geo-reference, and integrate GIS data into real-time 3D environments and digital twins. **
• Collaborate closely with Unreal Engine developers, 3D artists, and visualisation teams to troubleshoot geospatial integration issues (coordinate systems, scale, precision, performance optimisation). **
• Ensure geospatial accuracy, coordinate reference system alignment, and visual fidelity when translating GIS data into Unreal Engine scenes. **
• Manage version control, backups, and archiving of GIS datasets to support project iteration and long-term asset reuse. **
• Document GIS processes, data pipelines, and Unreal Engine ingestion workflows to facilitate team knowledge sharing and onboarding. **
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate GIS-to-Unreal data pipelines for increased efficiency on large-scale projects. **
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior GIS team members on data standards, Unreal integration techniques, and project-specific requirements. **
• Research and source GIS datasets to support world-building teams. **
• Stay current with advancements in GIS technologies, game-engine geospatial tools, and emerging best practices for immersive digital twin development.

Requirements

Required: ****

• Proven senior-level experience in GIS data management, processing, and analysis. **
• Deep proficiency with ArcGIS, QGIS, or comparable GIS platforms. **
• Hands-on experience integrating GIS data into Unreal Engine, including familiarity with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine or similar geospatial game-engine plugins. **
• Strong understanding of coordinate reference systems, projections, and geospatial accuracy requirements. **
• Experience preparing and optimising vector, raster, DEM/elevation, and 3D feature datasets for real-time 3D environments. **
• Ability to develop and enforce data standards, schemas, and documentation across teams. **
• Experience with pipeline automation and scripting (Python or similar) for GIS data workflows. **
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills **
• comfortable working cross-functionally with 3D artists, developers, and project managers. **
• Experience managing and mentoring junior team members. ******Nice to Have: ******
• Background in real estate, architecture, urban planning, or related property development industries. **
• Familiarity with digital twin platforms and immersive visualisation pipelines. **
• Experience with game engines beyond Unreal Engine (e.g. Unity). **
• Knowledge of BIM data and its integration with GIS environments.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Unity
• Unreal Engine

Benefits

• A globally distributed, collaborative team at the cutting edge of immersive technology. **
• Exposure to high-profile, visionary real estate and placemaking projects worldwide. **
• The opportunity to shape GIS best practices and build scalable workflows in an innovative, fast-growing consultancy. **
• Flexible, remote-first working environment.