Senior GIS Cloud Architect: Modernization & Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Federal and state leave programs

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud and GIS modernization efforts for complex environments. You will own architecture decisions for hybrid and cloud deployments and provide hands-on guidance across strategy, migration, and optimization.

This senior role combines deep technical leadership with client-facing advisory, mentoring colleagues, and shaping solutions from discovery through implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred (not explicitly stated).

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 GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud and GIS modernization efforts for complex environments. You will own architecture decisions for hybrid and cloud deployments and provide hands-on guidance across strategy, migration, and optimization.

This senior role combines deep technical leadership with client-facing advisory, mentoring colleagues, and shaping solutions from discovery through implementation.