GIS Cloud Architect

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group seeks a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud architecture for GIS environments, delivering secure, scalable, and cost-aware solutions. You’ll translate business needs into practical architectures and guide modernization, migration, and optimization efforts with senior-level influence.

In this senior role, you’ll partner with clients and delivery teams to shape technical strategy, mentor peers, and drive successful cloud initiatives from discovery

Qualifications

• Senior individual contributor with broad technical influence.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud architectures for GIS workloads.
• Ability to translate business needs into implementable designs.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of architecture decisions for enterprise GIS across cloud, hybrid, and traditional environments.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient cloud architectures for GIS workloads.
• Help organizations modernize platforms and migrate apps, databases, and infra to the cloud.
• Develop strategies for compute, networking, storage, identity, security, DR.
• Provide deep technical guidance; mentor colleagues; review designs.
• Support containerized and Kubernetes environments; plan capacity.

Job description

GIS Cloud Solutions Architect

Summary

This is an opportunity for an experienced cloud technology professional to shape complex GIS environments and help organizations modernize critical enterprise platforms. You'll combine hands-on architecture with customer consulting, designing secure, scalable cloud solutions while helping teams make informed decisions about modernization, migration, resiliency, and cost. The role offers significant ownership and visibility, with opportunities to influence technical strategy, support major solution pursuits, and guide projects from early-stage discovery through implementation. It is especially well suited to someone who enjoys solving difficult infrastructure problems and translating technical decisions into clear business value.

About the Opportunity

Join a technology consulting organization delivering sophisticated GIS and cloud solutions for organizations with complex, business-critical technology environments. You'll work alongside architects, consultants, delivery teams, and business development professionals on engagements ranging from cloud strategy and road mapping to architecture, migration, implementation, optimization, and managed services. This is a senior individual-contributor position with broad technical influence. You'll have the opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor to customers, mentor colleagues, develop reusable architecture practices, and help shape emerging cloud capabilities.

What You’ll Do

Cloud Architecture & Modernization

• 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.

GIS & Platform Engineering

• 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.

Solution Development & Pre-Sales

• 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.

Technical Leadership

• 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.

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Company Profile

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs. Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles. Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.bhsg.com.

Benefits Information

• Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility.
• Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.

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