Senior GIS Cloud Architect: Modernize & Secure

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

Job summary

Beacon Hill Technologies seeks a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to shape enterprise GIS environments across cloud, hybrid and traditional setups. You will own architecture decisions, guide modernization, and advise on migration, resiliency, and cost to deliver business value.

As a senior individual-contributor, you will mentor colleagues, influence technical strategy, and collaborate with delivery, sales, and business development to craft practical cloud solutions for complex engagements.

Qualifications

• Senior IC with broad technical influence.
• Experience designing cloud architectures for GIS workloads.
• Experience with migration, modernization, resiliency, and cost optimization.

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.

Job description

Beacon Hill Technologies seeks a GIS Cloud Solutions Architect to shape enterprise GIS environments across cloud, hybrid and traditional setups. You will own architecture decisions, guide modernization, and advise on migration, resiliency, and cost to deliver business value.

As a senior individual-contributor, you will mentor colleagues, influence technical strategy, and collaborate with delivery, sales, and business development to craft practical cloud solutions for complex engagements.