System Architect GIS Enterprise

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Role: System Architect GIS Enterprise
Location: Remote
Experience: 11+ Years
Duration: Long term

Job Description
UDC seeks a senior System Architect to drive enterprise GIS architecture for utility customers while supporting internal datacenter initiatives. The role leads client workshops, defines current state and future state architectures, authors solution designs and implementation road maps, and provides hands on guidance across servers, storage, networking, security, databases, and enterprise geodatabases. The architect partners with delivery teams for design, testing, tuning, documentation, licensing governance, and knowledge transfer to onshore and offshore personnel, ensuring scalable, secure, and highly available systems across private cloud, on premises, and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities:
Lead GIS Enterprise Architecture workshops and prepare presentation content and discovery questions
Translate requirements and RFPs into solution designs, statements of work, levels of effort, and schedules
Provide technical leadership for design, implementation, assessment, consulting, and managed services
Support internal IT by designing server, storage, network, and appliance infrastructure in UDC datacenters
Produce architectural diagrams covering software, hardware, network, security, databases, and integration
Author system architecture specifications and implementation release plans
Design database solutions including enterprise geodatabases
Validate requirements, determine configurations, and estimate system sizing using industry standard tools
Generate cost models and ROM estimates for production, DevOps, migration, and temporary environments
Advise clients on datacenter security and private network management best practices
Guide software development, quality assurance, and training teams on technical architecture
Establish and execute performance tuning and threshold testing and provide recommendations
Track software licensing and ensure compliance with agreements
Train UDC personnel to manage GIS infrastructure for managed service engagements
Educate stakeholders on UDC frameworks, methods, and market leading architectures
Mentor staff and strengthen relationships with partners and customers

Must-Have Skills:
Eleven to sixteen years of enterprise system consulting on large scale technology projects for utilities or similar complex environments
Six to eleven years in enterprise GIS spanning system design, Enterprise Architecture, implementation, and administration
Deep expertise deploying and supporting Esri ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online
Strong knowledge of private cloud, on premises, and hybrid architectures
Experience with virtual servers and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Proficiency with VLANs, firewalls, and security policies
Proficiency with Identity and Access Management
Knowledge of network and application load balancers and reverse proxies
Proficiency with private and public DNS and VPN
Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi or vSphere or Citrix Hypervisor
Proficiency with databases, file shares, and storage repositories
Experience automating batch jobs and scheduled processes with replication
Expertise in high availability, redundancy, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery

Nice-To-Have Skills:
Experience estimating ROI for multi zone and multi region designs using virtual machines or containers
Familiarity with DevOps environments and temporary migration environments
Experience creating comprehensive architecture documentation and deployment manuals
Background mentoring global teams and delivering managed services
Strong partner and customer engagement skills for market facing activities

Education:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Geography, or related field, or equivalent experience
Relevant certifications preferred such as AWS or Azure architecture, VMware, or Esri Enterprise Administration