Senior GIS Cloud Architect for Enterprise Modernization

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a highly experienced GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to shape complex GIS environments and modernize enterprise platforms in a cloud-enabled, hybrid setting. The role blends hands-on architecture with customer consulting, focusing on secure, scalable cloud solutions and clear business value through modernization, migration, resiliency, and cost optimization.

You will influence technical strategy, support major solution pursuits, and guide projects from

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a highly experienced GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to shape complex GIS environments and modernize enterprise platforms in a cloud-enabled, hybrid setting. The role blends hands-on architecture with customer consulting, focusing on secure, scalable cloud solutions and clear business value through modernization, migration, resiliency, and cost optimization.

You will influence technical strategy, support major solution pursuits, and guide projects from