Cloud GIS Architect: Modernization & Strategy

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Lansing (MI); Presencial; USD 130.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud architecture for complex GIS environments. You will own architecture decisions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments, mentoring teams and guiding modernization efforts from discovery to implementation.

This senior individual-contributor role offers significant visibility, opportunities to influence technical strategy, and a strong focus on designing secure, scalable, and cost-aware

Responsabilidades

• Take ownership of architecture decisions for enterprise GIS solutions across cloud, hybrid, and traditional environments.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient cloud architectures supporting enterprise GIS workloads.
• Help organizations modernize existing platforms and migrate applications, databases, and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Develop architecture approaches covering compute, networking, storage, databases, identity, security, integration, availability, and disaster recovery.
• Identify architectural risks and single points of failure, then recommend practical approaches to improve reliability.
• Evaluate virtual machine, container, and cloud-native deployment approaches based on customer requirements.
• Provide deep technical guidance throughout solution design and delivery.
• Architect environments supporting enterprise GIS applications, services, databases, and integrations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into high-level architectures and implementation-ready designs.
• Guide sizing, configuration, performance tuning, scalability, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Support containerized and Kubernetes-based environments where appropriate.
• Design architectures capable of supporting demanding workloads, including specialized compute and GPU-enabled use cases.
• Help turn customer challenges into practical, deliverable solutions.
• Partner with sales and consulting teams to develop technical approaches for new opportunities.
• Review customer requirements and procurement documentation to identify viable cloud solutions.
• Contribute architecture, scope, effort estimates, schedules, and technical content for proposals.
• Develop cloud consumption and budgetary estimates to help customers evaluate business cases and return on investment.
• Advise on architecture choices for high availability, disaster recovery, multi-zone, and multi-region environments.
• Raise the quality and consistency of cloud architecture across the organization.
• Provide architecture guidance to engineering, implementation, quality, training, and managed-services teams.
• Establish practical patterns for cloud security, monitoring, automation, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Review technical deliverables and designs for quality and alignment with customer needs.
• Mentor colleagues developing expertise in cloud and GIS technologies.

Descripción del empleo

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud architecture for complex GIS environments. You will own architecture decisions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments, mentoring teams and guiding modernization efforts from discovery to implementation.

This senior individual-contributor role offers significant visibility, opportunities to influence technical strategy, and a strong focus on designing secure, scalable, and cost-aware