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GIS Business Analyst

Galaxy i Technologies, Inc.Houston, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 28 Aug 2026

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Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Houston, TX, United States
Posted
Yesterday
ScrumAgileBusiness AnalysisPMPProcess Improvement

Job Description

Job Title :  GIS Business Analyst
Location : Houston, TX
 
GIS Business Analyst
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with 5+ years of experience supporting business
systems, technology initiatives, and cross-functional projects. The ideal candidate will excel at
translating business needs into scalable solutions, managing stakeholder expectations, driving
process improvements, and supporting project delivery from initiation through implementation.
Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data, and asset management
systems is highly desirable. The successful candidate will possess exceptional communication,
organization, facilitation, and project coordination skills and be comfortable working across
business, operational, and technical teams.
 
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Management
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and technology needs.
• Elicit, document, analyze, and validate business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Create business process maps, workflow diagrams, use cases, user stories, and process documentation.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews and requirements-gathering sessions .
• Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Support solution design and ensure requirements traceability.
 
Project Delivery & Coordination
• Support project managers and business leaders in planning, execution, and delivery of technology initiatives.
• Coordinate project activities, milestones, risks, issues, and action items.
• Facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, document decisions, and track follow-up actions.
• Assist with project scope, prioritization, resource coordination, and stakeholder communications.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks and mitigation strategies.
 
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Serve as the liaison between business users, technology teams, vendors, and leadership.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in business-friendly language.
• Build strong working relationships across departments and organizational levels.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, reports, and status updates.
• Facilitate consensus among diverse stakeholder groups.
 
GIS & Data Management
• Support GIS-related business processes, applications, and data workflows.
• Assist in defining business requirements for spatial data, mapping applications, mobile solutions, and location-based analytics.
• Help ensure data quality, governance, and consistency across enterprise GIS solutions Change Management & Training
• Assess and support change management activities for new systems and processes.
• Develop training materials, user guides, and process documentation.
• Facilitate training sessions and user onboarding activities.
• Drive user adoption and gather feedback for continuous enhancement opportunities.
 
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, GIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred but not required.
• Candidates with relevant professional experience, technical training, industry certifications, or demonstrated business analysis expertise will be considered.
• Strong understanding of Geospatial concepts including spatial data management.
• Minimum 5 years of Business Analyst experience supporting business systems, technology initiatives, or process improvement programs.
• Proven experience gathering and documenting business requirements.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and requirements sessions.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Product Suite, Visio, and project collaboration tools.
 
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with GIS platforms such as ArcGIS Suite, ArcGIS Enterprise, or related geospatial technologies.
• Experience supporting pipelines, asset management, or operations.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Experience with Power Platform, Power BI, Azure, SQL, or data analytics tools.
• Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, or Scrum certification.

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