Job Summary
PositionThe GIS Manager is a full-time position within the Connectivity team.
Location
The preferred location for the role is Singapore office. Alternatively, the role has the potential to be based on one of our offices in Sydney or Auckland. It could also be offered as a remote work solution as required.
Overview
Reporting to the Director of Operations, the GIS Manager is responsible for designing, managing, recording and maintaining the fibre network systems across subsea, terrestrial and internal fibre cable assets. The role scope will include the vendor selection, deployment and operation of a new GIS Management System alongside the BDW IT Systems team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deploy a new centralised geospatial network database for BW Digital’s current and future infrastructure projects.
- Work with the IT Department to create a company-wide access system with appropriate data controls and permissions, ensuring the security of critical and sensitive network information.
- Design terrestrial fibre-optic networks to meet the company’s objectives and targets.
- Process and accurately record network changes, resulting from service delivery/ provisioning works, new construction or maintenance activities and training internal staff to do same.
- Issue fibre splicing instructions to field staff and contractors to be able to effectively deliver and maintain client services
- Work with the subsea engineers and project managers to support the design and construction of subsea cable systems
- Maintain an up-to-date record of all network as-built files for all geospatial assets
- Provide prompt, high-quality reports to other teams and departments to support the successful completion of their core activities – such as Sales, Service Delivery and the NOC.
- Create and maintain internal procedures and documentation to ensure that all aspects of the geospatial network tools are understood and can be maintained
Qualifications & Experiences
Key Requirements:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a role that includes direct knowledge of designing and managing geospatial records within the Telecommunications industry
- Demonstrated experience in managing priorities and workflows across multiple departments and deadlines
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to work under tight deadlines or challenging real-time situations (such as an emergency network outage)
- Ability to work autonomously and remotely to agreed objectives
- Demonstrated experience of performing spatial analysis and creating detailed reports to support key decisions within the business
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in producing Scopes of Work for use by Service Delivery and Project Management to engage contractors to complete works
- Clear experience in managing large volumes of new data and processing it quickly and efficiently to ensure that BW Digital always has the latest information available.
- Experience in GIS system managing datacenter connectivity would be an advantage
Desirable Requirements:
- Tertiary qualifications in Information Systems and/or GIS
- Experience in designing, deploying and managing end-users accessing the database through a permissions hierarchy
- Direct experience of working with long-haul subsea cables, including recording of client services delivered as wavelengths, spectrum or capacity
- Experience of working with maritime datasets
- Experience of using GIS to support permitting and regulatory compliance