Senior GIS Cloud Architect & Modernization Leader

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Beacon Hill Technologies is seeking an experienced GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to own and shape enterprise GIS architectures across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization efforts, migrations, and architecture governance while mentoring teams and influencing technical strategy.

You will work with customers and delivery teams to translate requirements into scalable designs, including security, DR, and cost considerations.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of architecture decisions for enterprise GIS solutions across cloud, hybrid, and traditional environments.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient cloud architectures for enterprise GIS workloads.
• Help organizations modernize platforms and migrate apps, 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; recommend practical approaches to improve reliability.
• Evaluate VM, 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.
• 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 Technologies is seeking an experienced GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to own and shape enterprise GIS architectures across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization efforts, migrations, and architecture governance while mentoring teams and influencing technical strategy.

You will work with customers and delivery teams to translate requirements into scalable designs, including security, DR, and cost considerations.