Senior GIS Cloud Architect - Modernization & Strategy

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Technologies is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead cloud-based GIS solutions, drive modernization programs, and guide large-scale architecture decisions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will mentor teams, develop scalable architectures, and shape proposals for strategic cloud projects.

The role emphasizes enterprise GIS workloads, security, performance tuning, and capacity planning, with opportunities to influence technical strategy and engage with

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 Technologies is seeking a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead cloud-based GIS solutions, drive modernization programs, and guide large-scale architecture decisions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will mentor teams, develop scalable architectures, and shape proposals for strategic cloud projects.

The role emphasizes enterprise GIS workloads, security, performance tuning, and capacity planning, with opportunities to influence technical strategy and engage with