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Southern Company

Runs electric and gas utilities across the Southeast

GIS & Asset Data Service Manager

Full-TimeDeadline 10/12/26
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
Atlanta, GA, USA
HybridPrimarily office or hybrid; periodic travel to operating companies, field locations, project sites, vendors, and industry meetings may be required.
IT OperationsEnterprise Applications

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Geography/GIS, Geospatial Sciences, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Asset Management, or a related discipline, and 10 or more years of progressive experience in GIS, asset data management, utility operations, asset management, engineering support, or a related discipline.
  • Five or more years of experience leading teams, programs, projects, vendors, or enterprise initiatives.
  • Experience leading enterprise GIS and asset data programs supporting utility operations, engineering, compliance, construction, and asset management functions.
  • Experience establishing geospatial and asset data strategy, governance, service priorities, performance measures, and technology roadmaps.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams that include employees, contractors, consultants, vendors, and managed-service providers.
  • Experience developing business cases, funding requests, investment recommendations, and executive presentations.
  • Experience developing and managing capital and O&M budgets, forecasts, accruals, invoices, and project expenditures.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships, competitive sourcing activities, contracts, Master Service Agreements, and Statements of Work.
  • Experience leading requirements gathering, business process analysis, solution design, business readiness, and technology adoption.
  • Experience applying data governance, quality assurance, records management, and stewardship practices to enterprise asset information.
  • Experience communicating complex business and technical matters to senior leaders, operational stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners.
  • Experience prioritizing concurrent operational work, strategic initiatives, system enhancements, and customer commitments.
  • Knowledge and experience in strategic planning, organizational leadership, talent development, succession planning, and performance management.
  • Knowledge and experience in business relationship management, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, and executive communication.
  • Knowledge and experience in financial planning, budget management, forecasting, accruals, expenditure controls, and business case development.
  • Knowledge and experience in vendor, contract, MSA, SOW, and portfolio management.
  • Knowledge and experience in enterprise GIS strategy, architecture, governance, data lifecycle management, quality controls, and asset information stewardship.
  • Knowledge and experience with Esri ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, enterprise geodatabases, spatial analysis, and geoprocessing.
  • Knowledge and experience with Esri Utility Network and Utility and Pipeline Data Model.
  • Knowledge and experience in Enterprise Asset Management and work management concepts, including Maximo Application Suite or comparable platforms.
  • Knowledge and experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, document management, and enterprise reporting solutions.
  • Knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts.
  • Knowledge of utility asset lifecycle, gas distribution and transmission records, construction closeout, compliance reporting, and decision support.
  • Knowledge and experience in organizational change management, business readiness, process improvement, requirements analysis, solution design, testing, and implementation.
  • Ability to evaluate alternatives, resolve complex issues, manage changing priorities, and make decisions with significant business impact.
  • Strong written, verbal, analytical, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
Responsibilities
  • Establish the GIS and Asset Data strategy, operating model, service expectations, and technology roadmap.
  • Lead and coordinate supervisors, employees, contractors, consultants, and managed-service resources.
  • Build workforce capability through coaching, performance management, succession planning, knowledge transfer, and professional development.
  • Promote safety, accountability, collaboration, customer service, continuous improvement, and innovation.
  • Lead GIS and asset data standards, stewardship, quality, traceability, accessibility, and lifecycle management.
  • Ensure processes and controls support dependable asset records and operational, engineering, compliance, and regulatory needs.
  • Lead governance forums and facilitate decisions involving geospatial platforms, asset data, business processes, and system ownership.
  • Serve as a strategic liaison across GIS, Enterprise Asset Management, Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Construction, and Technology.
  • Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and sponsor technology investments, system enhancements, integrations, and modernization initiatives.
  • Guide requirements, solution alignment, testing oversight, readiness, communication, and adoption activities.
  • Promote effective use of enterprise GIS, Maximo, analytics, mobility, automation, and related business platforms.
  • Develop and manage departmental capital and O&M budgets, forecasts, accruals, expenditures, invoices, and financial reporting.
  • Develop business cases and funding recommendations that align investments with operational, regulatory, and strategic priorities.
  • Manage vendor relationships, sourcing activities, contracts, MSAs, SOWs, performance, and delivery commitments.
  • Lead or sponsor GIS and asset data programs involving system upgrades, integrations, conversions, records modernization, data quality, and process improvement.
  • Provide governance, risk management, issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting for strategic initiatives.
  • Ensure initiatives align with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, compliance, and business outcomes.
  • Ensure GIS and asset data services support Operations, Engineering, Construction, DIMP, TIMP, Corrosion, Asset Protection, System Operations, and other internal customers.
  • Support regulatory reporting, audits, records research, operational decision-making, incident response, and business continuity needs.
  • Represent GIS and Asset Data in corporate, regulatory, vendor, and industry forums as appropriate.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree in business administration, Geography/GIS, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Professional certification such as PMP, GISP, change management, or asset management.
  • A combination of equivalent education and work experience may be considered.
  • Natural gas distribution or transmission utility experience.
  • Experience with Esri Utility Network, Esri Utility Pipeline Data Model, ArcGIS Pro, and enterprise GIS modernization.
  • Experience with integrated GIS and Enterprise Asset Management solutions, including Maximo Application Suite.
  • Experience leading large-scale data migration, records modernization, asset digitization, or system-conversion initiatives.
  • Knowledge of PHMSA Part 192 requirements and utility asset recordkeeping, audit, and compliance practices.
  • Experience applying analytics, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to improve data quality, operational efficiency, and customer service.
  • Experience with Python, Model Builder, FME, SQL, workflow automation, or comparable data-processing tools.
  • Knowledge of AI-enabled analytics, intelligent automation, mobile GIS, digital-twin concepts, and other emerging utility technologies.
  • GIS and application integration architecture, data conversion, and enterprise implementation experience.
  • Knowledge of DIMP, TIMP, corrosion, engineering, construction operations, system operations, field operations, asset protection, and regulatory support workflows.
  • Active participation in utility GIS, records management, asset management, or related industry organizations.

About the company

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Southern Company

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Southern Company owns regulated electric and natural gas utilities that serve homes and businesses across the southeastern United States, chiefly through Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power. Its Southern Nuclear unit runs eight nuclear reactors at three plants in Georgia and Alabama for its sister utilities. The electric utilities generate power from gas, nuclear, coal, hydro and solar plants and deliver it over their own transmission and distribution lines, while state regulators set the rates customers pay and the returns the company earns. A separate gas arm distributes natural gas in several states. Southern Company was formed in 1945 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Founded

1912

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What believers are saying

  • Profits are climbing: earnings for April through June 2026 reached $1.2 billion, up from $0.9 billion a year earlier.
  • Cheap federal debt funds expansion: a $26.5 billion Energy Department loan in February 2026 backs 16 gigawatts of projects.
  • A long build-out means years of project work: Southern raised its five-year spending plan to $81 billion in February 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Growth leans on a few tech giants: Google, Meta and Microsoft anchor its 10 gigawatts of large-load contracts.
  • Household bills draw political heat: Georgia's governor joined a July 2026 pledge to shield residents from data-center power costs.
  • Labor talks are coming: union contracts covering about 32% of Southern staff expire between 2026 and 2030.

What makes Southern Company unique

  • Southern built the only US reactors finished since 2016: Vogtle Units 3 and 4, in service by April 2024.
  • Georgia Power's prices are set by elected officials: voters choose the five Public Service Commissioners who approve its rates.
  • Southern's gas business reaches beyond its power region: its Nicor Gas utility serves northern Illinois.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Performance Bonus
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Hybrid Work Options

Company News

Interesting Engineering
Oct 16th, 2026
World's first fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment nears critical testing.

World's first fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment nears critical testing. Southern Company, INL and CORE POWER are working to close a major knowledge gap in advanced nuclear engineering. A nuclear experiment backed by the U.S. Department of Energy could deliver crucial operating data for next-generation reactors as early as 2027. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) aims to test a fast-spectrum molten chloride salt reactor under sustained fission conditions. Its results could help engineers move the technology closer to commercial use. The DOE has approved additional cost-shared funding to accelerate the experiment's final development stage. Southern Company, Idaho National Laboratory and CORE POWER are collaborating on the project through the department's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. Testing a different reactor design. Unlike conventional reactors, which typically use solid fuel, molten salt reactor designs can dissolve nuclear fuel in liquid salt. MCRE will investigate a chloride-based system that operates with a fast neutron spectrum. Fast neutrons retain more energy than the thermal neutrons used in many conventional reactors. This difference influences how nuclear fuel behaves and how a reactor sustains fission. Engineers need experimental evidence to understand those effects and refine their designs. MCRE aims to become the world's first fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment to achieve criticality. That milestone occurs when a reactor sustains a controlled nuclear chain reaction. Idaho National Laboratory will help researchers gather direct measurements of the reactor's behavior during operation. Associate Laboratory Director Jess Gehin said engineers currently rely on models to predict how this reactor design will perform.

TEISS
Oct 15th, 2026
Southern Company says attacker accessed data on 400,000 utility accounts through online portal.

Southern Company says attacker accessed data on 400,000 utility accounts through online portal. Southern Company, the Atlanta-based electric and natural gas holding company, disclosed a data breach affecting about 400,000 utility customer accounts after an unauthorized third party accessed limited information through its online customer portal. The company issued a public statement Oct. 5, 2026, and is notifying affected customers by mail and email. About 300,000 of the affected accounts belong to Georgia Power customers, and another 100,000 belong to Alabama Power, which has a customer base of 1.6 million. Mississippi Power customers were also named in the public notice, but the company did not release a figure for them. The information involved varied by individual and may include names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, the last four digits of Social Security numbers, the last four digits of business tax identification numbers and other basic account details. The company said the attacker did not gain access to bank account numbers, payment card numbers or driver's license numbers. Southern Company said it took immediate steps to stop the unauthorized activity when it detected it and has engaged law enforcement. The company has not said when the intrusion occurred or how the attacker gained access to the portal, and the attacker's identity has not been publicly confirmed. Customers are being offered one year of free credit monitoring. Southern Company serves millions of customers through subsidiaries that include Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power. Two law firms, Edelson Lechtzin LLP and Ademi LLP, said they are investigating potential claims related to the breach.

Chief Executive Group
Oct 5th, 2026
Southern Company CEO Chris Womack: 'never stop raising the bar'

Southern Company CEO Chris Womack: 'never stop raising the bar' Womack leads the energy company with one maxim above all others: Great is not good enough if you stop getting better. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who receive an award and see it as a chance to take a break. And those who see it as a reason to work that much harder. Southern Company CEO Chris Womack is most assuredly in the latter category. He leads his prolific energy company with one maxim above all others: Great is not good enough if you stop getting better. Womack knows what he's talking about. Southern Company, which serves more than nine million customers across the U.S., was recently ranked No. 1 in the oil and gas industry on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list. That's a real feather in the cap. Womack and his staff achieved this mark through the idea that "getting better" is not just a slogan. Instead, Womack pushes his staff to clearly define "better," benchmark it and show others how to achieve it. Of course, this is the kind of focus that comes from someone who has been with an organization for several decades. Indeed, the Alabama-born CEO has had Southern Company on his business card since 1988. Let that sink in - that's 38 years of service. "We challenge ourselves very, very forthrightly about not becoming complacent," Womack explained to me on a recent episode of the Corporate Competitor Podcast. "Especially in terms of not relishing being No. 1." Athletes will tell you. Any team can come from behind to beat you. No lead is totally safe. Womack, a former player for Western Michigan University on the baseball diamond, knows that well. That's why he doesn't believe any victory is worth a day off. "We have to keep getting better," he told me. "We have to keep moving the bar, raising the bar, elevating the bar, stepping up our game to continue to be successful." Womack talked about all this and more on the podcast, including: - Be adaptable. He believes that adaptability is a strength for both individuals and businesses. The CEO, who had to adapt when he left rural Alabama for college in Michigan, benefited from being malleable then. As a hitter, you never know what pitch is coming at you next. The same is true in business. - Vulnerability is not weakness. Over the years, Womack has learned that sharing stories, fears, hopes - these things strengthen bonds and relationships. They demonstrate a shared humanity. So, as a leader in business, he doesn't shy away from vulnerable moments. He leans into them. "We're all in this together," he says. - Employees are people. In the old days, many companies told their employees to leave their baggage at the door. But Womack calls this practice "completely unrealistic," adding, "that's not real life." Instead, he fosters an environment where employees are free to express what's going on in their lives outside of the job. That way their workplace feels more like home. Over the last 30 years, longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated and 13-time New York Times Best-Selling Author Don Yaeger has been blessed to interview the greatest winners of its generation. He has made a second career as a keynote speaker and executive coach, discerning habits of high performance to teach teams how to reach their full potential.

Carpenter Media Group
Oct 1st, 2026
Georgia regents name former Southern Company leader Fanning as next chancellor.

Georgia regents name former Southern Company leader Fanning as next chancellor. Published 1:28 pm Thursday, October 1, 2026 By Ty Tagami, Capitol Beat News Service | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... | ATLANTA - Georgia's Board of Regents formalized the hiring Thursday of the next leader of the state's 25 public colleges and universities, naming Thomas A. Fanning as chancellor. The former president and CEO of Southern Company will take control of the University System of Georgia on Jan. 1, the day after Sonny Perdue retires. The regents named Fanning sole finalist last month. "As a proud USG graduate, I know firsthand the transformative power of this system," Fanning said in a statement. The Georgia Tech graduate, who went on to earn a master's degree there, said his priorities are to ensure college remains accessible, to support innovation and to drive the state's economy with talented graduates. Fanning led Southern Company from 2010 to 2023. He also chaired the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. After leading the university system for four years, Perdue announced his retirement in April, prompting a five-month search for his successor. Perdue served as agriculture secretary for President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House and as Georgia's first Republican governor since Reconstruction starting in 2003.

[your]NEWS
Sep 15th, 2026
Southern Company secures record $26.5B DOE loan for data centre power build-out

The US Department of Energy has approved a $26.5 billion loan to Southern Company through Georgia Power and Alabama Power, the largest in the agency's history. Georgia Power receives approximately $22.4 billion whilst Alabama Power gets roughly $4.1 billion. The 30-year loans will finance over 16 gigawatts of power capacity, including gas turbines, nuclear upgrades, batteries, and 1,300 miles of transmission infrastructure. Officials tout $7 billion in customer savings and $300 million annual interest cost reductions for Southern Company. The financing targets data centre growth and manufacturing expansion. Critics argue the subsidised borrowing costs benefit shareholders whilst construction costs enter the rate base, ultimately paid by customers. Current rate freezes in Georgia and Alabama have expiration dates. The loan reduces Southern Company's borrowing costs but doesn't guarantee lower household bills, as assets remain company-owned and ratepayer-funded.