Senior GIS Analyst

Requisition ID:  186732 
Career Group:  Corporate Office Careers 
Job Category:  Immobilier, planification 
Travel Requirements:  0 - 10%
Job Type:  Full-Time
 

 Country: Canada (CA) 
Province: Ontario  
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office

 
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.  
 
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family. 
 

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team!  We are currently looking for a Senior GIS Analyst.  This is a hybrid role and there is an in-office requirement of 3 days a week.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

Data Administration and Querying

• Monitor and maintain the departmental SQL server database and backup jobs
• Acquire and upload data to the departmental geodatabases ensuring data currency, consistency, and alignment between internal and external clients
• Develop tools to enable analysis, data quality checks and automate ETL tasks 
• Utilize SQL Server Management Studio and ArcGIS to query data, create views, functions and develop stored procedures
• Provide GIS system administration, GIS database editing, geocoding, geoprocessing and quality control in desktop and web environments
• Act as a Real Estate Planning data steward that can speak on behalf of our datasets and models to the wider organization

Spatial and Statistical Analysis

• Collaborate cross functionally to develop new methodologies and models to support locational strategies across the organization
• Analyze spatial and non-spatial data for statistically significant patterns of customer distribution using multiple internal and external datasets 
• Manipulate, extract, locate and analyze geographic data to explore spatial relationships

Reporting, Mapping and Document Management

• Create and maintain departmental reports in Tableau and Power BI
• Update ArcGIS desktop templates and ArcGIS Online applications by publishing data to ArcGIS Server
• Enhance the mapping platform, using Python or ModelBuilder, by creating tools and automating map production
• Enhance and update the Microsoft SharePoint site for Real Estate Planning

Ad-Hoc Requests

• Respond promptly to ad-hoc data, reporting and mapping requests
• Provide frontline user support for the GIS system including problem solving/resolution and troubleshooting

What you have to offer:

• An undergraduate degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience 
• Minimum of 2 years in an intermediate or a senior GIS role working with SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, t-SQL, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Server, spatial analysis
• Minimum 1 year of development experience with Tableau or Power BI
• Minimum 1 year of development experience in one of the following programming languages: Python, C#.NET or VB.NET 
• Advanced MS Office Productivity Suite skills
• Bilingual (English & French) an asset

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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally. 

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy. 

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process. 

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.