Head of the Digital Territory Service

Ref 2586069 | Company Ref: CdS STN | Date: 19 Oct 2026 BGMP The Direction de l'information du territoire (DIT) is at the heart of the digital and territorial transformation of the State of Geneva. It pilots the cantonal geoinformation strategy, coordinates public actors around territorial data, and provides digital services indispensable to the knowledge, management, and planning of the Genevan territory. Within the DIT, the Service du territoire numérique (STN) constitutes the operational competence center for services and engineering related to geoinformation and BIM, considered as a coherent set. It ensures their delivery, continuity, quality, and controlled evolution, serving public administrations, municipalities, institutional partners, professional circles, and the public. To complete its management team, the DIT is looking for its future Head of the Digital Territory Service (STN)

Your mission
Reporting to the director of the Direction de l'information du territoire, you ensure the managerial and operational management of the Service du territoire numérique (STN). You guarantee the service's capacity to fulfill its missions by ensuring alignment between received orientations, the roadmap, available resources, and operational realities. Based on the orientations of the cantonal geoinformation strategy, the priorities decided by management, and the requirements of the LGéo-GE and the RGéo, you organize their implementation within the scope of the service. Your field of action notably covers governance and quality of territorial digital data and models, SITG services, geoservices and cartographic applications, support to business offices, 3D/4D, geodata science, and the controlled uses of artificial intelligence. You work in collaboration with the strategic programs unit, other DIT services, the IT of the State of Geneva, business offices, municipalities, cantonal and intercantonal geoinformation bodies, as well as academic and private actors.

Your responsibilities

• Lead, organize, and develop the STN, allocate its human, financial, and technical resources, pilot external providers, and develop a culture of service and continuous improvement based on performance indicators.
• Maintain an organization through functional blocks and products, delegate their responsibility to leads and deputies, accompany the transformation of the service, and develop the skills, cooperation, and accountability of teams.
• Pilot the operational portfolio of services, requests, and evolutions: collect and qualify needs, translate priorities arbitrated by management into capacity plans, schedule their realization by prioritizing the continuity of services, then mandated evolutions and arbitrated exploratory activities, monitor results, and report risks and needs for arbitration.
• Ensure business project management (maîtrise d'ouvrage métier) and coordination with the IT of the State of Geneva for the operation, maintenance, availability, and evolution of solutions relating to geoinformation and BIM.
• Implement, within the scope of the STN, the rules and processes defined regarding governance, quality, qualification, documentation, and interoperability of data and services, in coordination with the DIT strategic programs unit and business producers.
• Organize and guarantee the realization of innovation projects entrusted to the STN, respecting the orientations and arbitrations of the DIT, with explicit objectives, resources, and exit criteria, and prepare their eventual scaling up.
• Participate in geoinformation governance bodies and represent the STN or the DIT, by delegation, in internal, cantonal, intercantonal, or federal working groups.

Your specific skills

• Confirmed leadership and ability to lead a multidisciplinary service composed of executives, domain managers, experts, and technical specialists, by practicing clear and empowering delegation.
• Very good mastery of the issues of geoinformation and BIM, geographic information systems, data governance, and geographic digital services.
• Ability to translate strategic orientations into operational priorities, capacity plans, and measurable results, with constant attention paid to resources, risks, deadlines, quality, and continuity of services.
• Experience in business project management (maîtrise d'ouvrage métier), responsibility for products or services, and piloting complex digital services, in coordination with IT partners and suppliers.
• Aptitude to structure and pilot an operational portfolio, to plan capacities, to arbitrate execution within the framework of decided priorities, and to pilot performance using indicators.
• Ability to articulate business needs, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and user expectations, in a logic of pragmatic and sustainable solutions.
• Ease in a complex institutional environment, negotiation skills, and aptitude to unite partners with sometimes divergent interests.
• Excellent analytical and synthesis skills, clear communication, rigor, sense of public service, and ability to drive change.

Your profile
Essential requirements

• University education at Master's level or training deemed equivalent in a relevant field: geomatics, geoinformatics, engineering, data science, information systems, digital construction/BIM, or related field.
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