GIS Enterprises Architect

Job ID: 1110

Job Title: GIS System Architect

Duration: 1 year to start, could be extended

Target rates are $65/hr W2 OR $78/hr C2C.

Location: Remote + travel up to 50% at times (the amount may vary depending on client and project requirements), must be comfortable working in all time zones

Essential duties and responsibilities (other duties and responsibilities may also be assigned):

• Leads and contributes to GIS Enterprise Architecture workshops and related discussions involving utility customers and prepares relevant presentation content and questions in advance.
• Leads discussions to support client system requirements for current-state and future-state enterprise architectures.
• Provides overall technical expertise for system design, implementation, assessment, consulting, and managed service engagements.
• Serves as a member of the Information Technology (IT) team, supporting internal technology needs based on a targeted billable-overhead ratio. This design tasks for managing physical server, storage, network, and appliance infrastructure in datacenters.
• Reads client requirements, RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs to identify opportunities, and then subsequently develops the enterprise system solution, statement of work, level of effort, and project schedule to be included in proposals in a timely manner.
• Manages technical deliverables for projects and the Practice Area, including architectural diagrams, use-cases, requirements gathering, solution design, test cases, administration guides, deployment manuals, and other specification documentation.
• Facilitates and participates in GIS road mapping workshops for utility customers.
• Builds high-level and detailed Enterprise Architecture diagrams that include specifying all required software, hardware, network, database and enterprise geodatabase, storage, security, integration, and other enterprise components.
• Authors system architecture specification document for deployments that encompasses a standard set of architecture views and implementation release schedule.
• Designs database solutions, including enterprise geodatabases.
• Validates system requirements, determines system configuration, and estimates system sizing using a variety of tools and in alignment with industry standards and best practices.
• Generates comprehensive cost estimates and Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) budgetary estimates using standard configuration tools for competitive and sole source proposals around Phase 0 and business case road mapping requests from clients that cover all DevOps environments, production environments, and temporary environments such as those used for data migration. Estimates need to include pricing to support our clients in securing funding and justifying Return on Investment (ROI) for high availability and business continuity requirements that involve multi-zone and multi-region deployments which may be based on virtual machines or containers.
• Provides technical guidance and consulting for clients to embrace security in their datacenters and educates clients on what it takes to create and manage a private network from a network communications and administration standpoint.
• Provides technical architecture direction for software development teams, quality assurance personnel, and training staff when required.
• Ensures system solutions and deliverables are thoroughly tested, vetted, reviewed, and meet customer expectations.
• Creates and executes GIS system tuning and system threshold testing procedures, analyzes resulting performance metrics, and develops recommendations.
• Maintains visibility of software application licensing to ensure license agreements are followed.
• Trains onshore and offshore personnel to manage GIS infrastructure resources to support managed service engagements.
• Educates others, internally and externally, on Enterprise Architecture framework and methodologies pertaining to enterprise system technologies.
• Stays up to date on partner, competitor, and market-leading enterprise system architectures that are industry-proven, best practice, robust, and innovative to ensure is providing adequate performance along with the correct parameters to support hardware scaling through design and implementation.
• Partners with internal staff, business partners, and customers to build relationships and elevate presence and reputation in the GIS enterprise system market.
• Serves as a mentor for others interested in enterprise system technologies to assist with knowledge transfer and career growth opportunities.

Requirements:

• 11-16 years of work experience in GIS enterprise system consulting and large-scale technology projects, preferably for utility customers.
• 6-11 years of work experience in enterprise GIS with a combination of system design, Enterprise Architecture, system implementation, and system administration.
• Thorough background in deploying, configuring, administering, and supporting Esri ArcGIS products, including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online.
• In-depth understanding of the concepts, tools, and best practices pertaining to technologies and solutions that involve the following types of resources for private cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments:
• Virtual servers and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
• Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), firewalls, and security policies.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Network and application load balancers and other reverse proxies.
• Private and public Domain Name Services (DNS).
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
• Virtualization platforms such as Citrix Hypervisor or VMware ESXi / vSphere.
• Databases, file shares, and other storage repositories.
• Batch jobs, scheduled processes, automated tasks, and replication.
• High availability, redundancy, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery.

Regards,

Dominic Savio