Salary: $61.90 - $92.84 Hourly
Location : Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave., Seattle, WA
Job Type: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time
Job Number:
Department: Seattle City Light
Opening Date: 07/28/2026
Closing Date: 8/11/2026 4:00 PM Pacific

Position Description
The Manager, Utility Asset Management & Geospatial Services is responsible for the day-to-day leadership, administration, technical and functional support, maintenance, enhancement, and continuous improvement of Seattle City Light's enterprise Asset Management, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Construction Operations, Mobile Workforce, and Field Service Management applications.

This position manages a multidisciplinary team responsible for maintaining highly available, secure, and reliable business applications that support engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, vegetation management, emergency response, customer service, and field crews across the utility.

The Manager is accountable for the complete application lifecycle including production support, functional administration, technical administration, system configuration, upgrades, patches, integrations, vendor coordination, issue resolution, performance optimization, and business relationship management.

The position works closely with Operations, Engineering, Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Vegetation Management, Project Delivery, Customer Operations, Seattle IT, and external vendors to ensure enterprise applications effectively support utility business processes and strategic objectives while maintaining high system availability and data quality.

Enterprise Application Portfolio

• Enterprise Asset Management (Oracle WAM/WACS or equivalent)
• Work Management
• Construction Operations/Project Management System
• Mobile Field Service Applications
• Enterprise GIS
• Utility Network
• Spatial Analytics
• Enterprise Geodatabases
• GIS Web Services

Job Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operation, administration, maintenance, and support of enterprise Asset Management, GIS, Construction Operations, and Field Service Management applications.
• Ensure production systems remain secure, available, reliable, and fully supported in a 24x7 operational environment.
• Provide ownership for application availability, monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support.
• Lead incident, problem, and root cause management.
• Establish operational procedures, support standards, and service level objectives.
• Coordinate technical troubleshooting with business users, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
• Provide technical and functional ownership of supported applications.
• Lead system configuration, workflow administration, security administration, and business rule management.
• Coordinate releases, upgrades, patches, and production deployments.
• Manage testing, change management, and post-implementation validation.
• Ensure integrity, quality, and accuracy of enterprise GIS and asset information.
• Manage enterprise geodatabases, Utility Network, GIS editing workflows, version management, and data governance.
• Serve as the primary technology partner for Engineering, Operations, Construction, Vegetation Management, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Customer Operations, and Maintenance.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and prioritize enhancements.
• Manage integrations between GIS, Asset Management, Work Management, Mobile Workforce, OMS, ADMS, EMS, SCADA, AMI, ERP, Engineering, and Customer Information Systems.
• Lead/Support application implementation projects, enhancements, testing, training, cutover, and deployment.
• Manage software vendors, implementation partners, contracts, licensing, and SLAs.
• Supervise analysts, developers, GIS professionals, administrators, and business analysts.
• Conduct performance management, mentoring, and workforce development.
• Develop and manage operating and capital budgets and annual maintenance plans.
• Ensure compliance with City security standards, NERC CIP (where applicable), disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit requirements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: In addition to the skills and experience mentioned below, a successful applicant will have experience that reflects a commitment to creating fair and equitable outcomes and has:

Experience:

• Minimum of eight years supporting enterprise Asset Management, GIS, Construction Operations, Field Service applications, or related.
• Minimum three years managing technical application support teams.
• Experience supporting production enterprise applications including upgrades, integrations, and vendor management.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, GIS, Engineering, Geography, or related field (or a combination of education and/or training and/or experience that provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience supporting production enterprise applications including upgrades, integrations, and vendor management.
• PMP certification.
• Esri Technical Certification.
• Oracle WAM/WACS, ArcGIS Enterprise, Utility Network, Mobile Workforce, and electric utility experience preferred.

Please note this job advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Emergency Response Commitment: Seattle City Light is committed to reliable service during emergencies. Through our Emergency Response Program, each employee is assigned a role-usually aligned with their regular duties-to support emergency operations. Your participation is required and vital to helping the utility stay prepared and serve our community when it matters most.

Additional Information
The full salary range for this position is $61.90 to $92.84 per hour.

Application Process

Please submit the following with your online application:

• A cover letter in which you clearly describe how your knowledge, experience, skills, and abilities prepare you for the job responsibilities and qualifications outlined in the job announcement
• A current resume of your educational and professional work experience.

Incomplete applications may not be considered.

01

How many years of experience do you have supporting enterprise Asset Management, GIS, Construction Operations, Field Service applications, or related?

• Less than 1 year
• 1-4 years
• 5-7 years
• 8-10 years
• More than 10 years

02

How many years of experience do you have managing technical application support teams?

• Less than 1 year
• 1-2 years
• 3-4 years
• 5+ years

03

Please briefly describe how your skills and experience match the required and desired qualifications for this position ("see resume" or similar is not an acceptable answer).
04

Please select the highest level of education you have completed.

• High School Diploma/GED
• Some College
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• JD/Doctorate Degree
• None of the Above

05

To participate in the hiring process, Seattle City Light requires strict confidentiality of all related information, including any discussions outside the workplace. This ensures fairness and protects the integrity of the process. This obligation applies during and after the hiring process. Do you understand and agree to maintain this confidentiality?

• Yes, I understand and agree.
• No, I do not agree.

Required Question