Job#: 3056432 Job Description: Senior GIS Database Migration Architect
Location: Houston, Texas (Hybrid) or Remote
Duration: 6 month Contract-to-Hire
Role Overview
Seeking a senior, hands-on GIS database migration architect to serve as the primary technical lead for an enterprise Oracle-to-PostgreSQL/PostGIS GIS migration assessment. The successful candidate will perform the majority of the technical discovery, analysis, architecture, documentation, and roadmap development required to assess a large Esri Enterprise Geodatabase environment and prepare a defensible migration plan. This engagement focus is strictly assessment-oriented; the professional in this role will validate current-state conditions, identify compatibility and dependency risks, define remediation options, and build the phased migration roadmap and runbook.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute technical discovery for the in-scope Lower 48 Esri Enterprise Geodatabase environment, including the Oracle database, ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal services, ETLs, source systems, and downstream consumers.
- Create and maintain an inventory of candidate databases, schemas, tables, feature classes, layers, services, schedules, interfaces, and ownership information.
- Analyze Esri geodatabase constructs and relational dependencies, including spatial data types, domains, subtypes, relationship classes, attachments, Global IDs, attribute rules, and versioning.
- Assess Oracle-to-PostgreSQL/PostGIS conversion risks across schemas, data types, date and time handling, spatial references, geometry behavior, indexing, constraints, privileges, and performance.
- Document known ETLs, source systems, schedules, transformation logic, and consuming services, while flagging dependencies and reconnection risks involving ArcGIS Portal, Survey123, FME, Spotfire, and Power BI.
- Contribute database-layer recommendations for ETL governance, naming, metadata, lineage, spatial reference and datum standards, access, change control, and lifecycle management.
- Own the technical content for a phased migration roadmap and runbook covering wave planning, sequencing, prerequisites, validation gates, rollback planning, and operational transition.
- Evaluate whether on-premises PostgreSQL/PostGIS recommendations align with potential future cloud-hosted patterns to prevent avoidable rework.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor degree in Geographic Information Systems, Computer Science, Database Administration, or a related technical discipline is required.
Experience: Eight or more years of progressively responsible GIS, spatial database, database architecture, or data migration experience, including substantial hands-on work in enterprise Esri environments.
Technical Skills: Demonstrated experience assessing or planning migrations from Oracle Enterprise Geodatabases to PostgreSQL/PostGIS; advanced SQL skills and schema analysis; strong working knowledge of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.x, Portal, and ArcGIS Pro; and experience analyzing ETL patterns using tools such as FME, Python, SQL, or ArcPy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in utilities, infrastructure, or another asset-intensive environment with large enterprise GIS estates.
- Experience with ArcGIS Online, Survey123, Power BI, Spotfire, and hybrid on-premises/cloud architectures.
- Experience designing data validation, reconciliation, profiling, lineage, metadata, and governance controls for spatial data migrations.
- Familiarity with cloud-based PostgreSQL databases, networking patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices.
- Relevant Esri, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or data architecture certifications.
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