1. Context

Digit’Eaux is the sectoral entity responsible for providing shared IT services to public water operators in Wallonia.

It designs, operates, and develops a sectoral GIS platform based on Esri technologies (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, Utility Network, Fieldmaps, Survey123, Dashboard, etc.), PostgreSQL/PostGIS, FME Desktop & Flow, and integrates numerous business processes related to the management of drinking water and sanitation networks. Digit’Eaux must ensure the continuity and evolution of its services, while supporting its partners in their strategic projects, with a view to resource pooling, coherence, and increasing the sector’s maturity.

To support the implementation of transformation projects as well as the ongoing and corrective maintenance of solutions, Digit’Eaux wishes to strengthen the team with a GIS consultant. The provider will act as an expert in implementing complex GIS projects and as a technical reference for senior ArcGIS Enterprise/Utility Network. In this capacity, they will intervene at both strategic and operational levels to ensure the quality, performance, and sustainability of the solutions implemented.

2. Missions

Their missions notably include the following services:

• provide expertise and leadership in the design, deployment, and optimization of complex GIS solutions, while ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic directions;
• act as a technical reference, particularly on ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Utility Network;
• lead GIS projects;
• propose optimization areas for processes and tools;
• develop/configure ArcGIS apps (Experience Builder, JavaScript API, Field Maps, Survey123) and publish services/layers in ArcGIS Enterprise;
• design/optimize FME Desktop/Flow workflows (scheduling, monitoring, recovery);
• contribute to change management, user guides, and documentation for deployment and operations.

Skills

Experience:

• Higher education in geomatics, geography, computer science, or equivalent (minimum Bac+4/5);
• Minimum 10 years of experience in implementing complex GIS projects and architectures on the Esri ecosystem;

Skills:

• Proven experience in managing complex GIS projects.
• Proficiency in designing application architecture for a sectoral GIS platform.
• Ability to manage a project portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience in GIS projects related to the water and/or sanitation sector (knowledge of business processes and practices of public operators) is an asset.
• Advanced proficiency in ArcGIS Enterprise: installation, configuration, and administration (Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server, Data Store), service publishing, optimization via tiling, role management, security, high availability.
• ArcGIS Enterprise Administration certification is an asset.
• Proficiency in enterprise geodatabase: configuration, design, distribution, loading, maintenance, versioning, archiving, and optimization of enterprise geodatabases.
• ArcGIS Enterprise Geodata Management certification is an asset.
• Proficiency in SQL / PostgreSQL / PostGIS: strong command of spatial databases, operational proficiency in SQL, joins/aggregations, basic spatial functions (ST_Intersects, ST_Buffer…), spatial indexes.
• Proven experience in implementing ArcGIS Utility Network: full implementation, solid understanding of concepts (associations, rules, tracing, topology), ability to analyze functional impacts, modeling of complex networks, configuration of topological rules as well as integration with third-party systems (e.g., SAP) and business applications.
• Proven experience in configuring ArcGIS Experience Builder, Survey123, Field Maps, and ArcGIS Dashboards.
• Proficiency in Python (ArcPy) for automating geospatial processing and/or deployments.
• Proficiency in FME Desktop/Flow: creation of standard workflows, complex automations, FME Flow, logs & debugging.
• FME Professional certification is an asset.
• Basic knowledge of DevOps (Git, CI/CD, deployment on ArcGIS Enterprise).
• Proficiency in French.
• Knowledge of technical English required.

The mission may be renewed depending on the client’s assessment.