Senior GIS Cloud Architect & Modernization Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Beacon Hill is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise GIS modernization, cloud strategy, and architecture across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will own architecture decisions, guide migrations, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions with measurable business value.

The role offers broad technical influence, opportunities to mentor colleagues, and visibility into major solution pursuits and strategic programs aligned with

Qualifications

• Own architecture decisions for enterprise GIS across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient cloud architectures supporting GIS workloads.
• Help organizations modernize platforms and migrate apps, databases, and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Develop architectures for compute, networking, storage, databases, identity, security, and DR.
• Identify risks and single points of failure; recommend reliability improvements.
• Evaluate VM, container, and cloud-native deployment options.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance throughout design and delivery.
• Architect environments supporting enterprise GIS applications, services, databases, and integrations.
• Translate requirements into high-level architectures and designs.
• Guide sizing, configuration, and performance tuning.
• Support containerized and Kubernetes environments where appropriate.
• Design architectures for demanding workloads including GPU use.
• Turn customer challenges into deliverable solutions.
• Collaborate with sales on technical approaches for new opportunities.
• Review requirements to identify cloud solutions.
• Contribute to proposals with architecture scope and estimates.
• Develop cloud consumption and budget estimates.
• Advise on HA, DR, multi-zone and multi-region architectures.
• Improve architecture quality and consistency across the organization.
• Guide engineering, implementation, QA, training, and services teams.
• Establish patterns for security, monitoring, automation, reliability.
• Review deliverables for quality and fit.
• Mentor colleagues in cloud and GIS technologies.

Job description

Beacon Hill is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise GIS modernization, cloud strategy, and architecture across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will own architecture decisions, guide migrations, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions with measurable business value.

The role offers broad technical influence, opportunities to mentor colleagues, and visibility into major solution pursuits and strategic programs aligned with