The Geospatial Product Owner Gas Compliance is responsible for managing the strategic direction, functionality, and performance of CenterPoint Energy's Enterprise geospatial data, analytics and AI environments. The position serves as the primary liaison between business units, IT, and data teams to ensure that geospatial data are leveraged to enhance operational efficiency, system reliability, compliance, safety, and decision-making.
This role integrates business analysis, product ownership, and geospatial data management expertise to align initiatives with CenterPoint Energy's organizational goals, supporting electric and natural gas operations, customer, supply chain and other corporate functions across the enterprise.
Essential Functions I:
Product Ownership and Strategy
- Own and maintain the geospatial product vision, roadmap, and priorities in alignment with corporate objectives and business requirements.
- Translate operational needs into actionable user stories, requirements, and technical specifications for developers and IT teams.
- Manage product lifecycle activities, including planning, backlog management, release coordination, and continuous improvement.
- Define and monitor performance indicators for product adoption, reliability, and business value.
Business Analysis and Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the primary point of contact for business units on capabilities, enhancements, and service delivery.
- Conduct business process reviews, workflow mapping, and requirements analysis to identify and prioritize geospatial solutions.
- Facilitate cross-functional workshops, stakeholder interviews, and demonstrations to capture feedback and align expectations to support geospatial or imagery-based projects.
- Develop and maintain business requirements documentation, functional specifications, and user guides.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment reviews, and communication for system updates and new releases.
Technical Leadership and Geospatial Enablement
- Oversee integration of geospatial solutions with enterprise systems such as SAP, asset management, work management, and outage systems.
- Evaluate and recommend geospatial tools, data models, and spatial data services to support CenterPoint's operations.
- Support cloud-based geospatial environments (e.g., GCP and Azure) and ensure performance, scalability, and availability standards are met.
- Collaborate on configuration and customization of geospatial web and mobile applications in collaboration with the GIS.
CenterPoint Energy
1111 Louisiana St
Houston
Texas United States
www.centerpointenergy.com
