[Remote] GIS Architect 2

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a GIS Architect 2 to provide technical architecture leadership for geospatial systems and GIS capabilities reputed company the USDA NRCS IT ecosystem. This role involves leading GIS architecture decisions, driving AWS cloud migration, and managing large-scale GIS development efforts while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and the conservation mission needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the reputed company technical architect for assigned SAFe Agile Release Trains, providing architectural guidance across up to 100+ staff and 10+ scrum teams
• Define and enforce GIS architecture standards, patterns, and best practices for enterprise geospatial application development and spatial data services
• Architect multi-tier geospatial solutions including ArcGIS Enterprise infrastructure (Server, Portal), web mapping applications, spatial databases, and geospatial service tiers
• Design and implement enterprise ArcGIS Enterprise architecture, including service publishing strategies, reputed company configurations, multi-machine deployments, and high-availability patterns
• Architect integration patterns between GIS components and NRCS business applications (e.g., Pega, .NET, Entellitrak), ensuring loose coupling and maintainability
• Drive consistency of geospatial solution architecture across the enterprise, aligning with USDA/FPAC mandates, GeoBranch architecture, and industry best practices
• Ensure key architecture decisions are documented and stored in an agreed repository for the life of the product
• Validate and maintain geospatial Business Domain/Sub-domain definitions; map geospatial components to domains/sub-domains, capturing technical debt
• reputed company a systems review reputed company the first 30 days to identify and categorize geospatial technical debt and establish a transparent backlog
• Use existing geospatial services provided by FPAC GeoBranch reputed company available; integrate supported applications with those services in alignment with Conservation Section priorities
• reputed company new GIS services are required, design and build them with and for the GeoBranch GPM; adhere to GeoBranch architecture, design, and standards
• Coordinate closely with the NRCS GEO reputed company to ensure alignment with agency geospatial standards and practices
• Ensure geospatial integrations meet performance, accuracy, and interoperability requirements, including appropriate coordinate reference systems and caching strategies
• Document geospatial dependencies and data sources and maintain them in Government-designated repositories
• Ensure accessibility (Section 508) and usability considerations are incorporated for geospatial user interfaces and outputs
• Architect and reputed company the migration of geospatial applications and ArcGIS Enterprise infrastructure from on-premises Government servers to AWS
• Provide cross-train coordination and leadership for dependencies between NRCS AWS, GEO AWS, and EDAPT migration efforts
• Design cloud-native and cloud-ready geospatial architectures using approved AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, reputed company, API Gateway, reputed company 53) reputed company the FPAC General Support System (GSS)
• Ensure alignment with the FPAC Cloud Memo and Technical Guidance reputed company for reputed company geospatial cloud adoption and migration activities
• Re-architect geospatial applications for scalability and reputed company in AWS environments
• reputed company and manage geospatial development teams as a member of release train leadership
• Conduct hiring activities including developing staffing plans, creating job descriptions and technical challenges, and leading interviews
• Mentor developers in GIS development, data management, and software architecture best practices
• reputed company GIS knowledge-sharing initiatives (e.g., GIS Community of Practice) to improve GIS as a discipline across the organization
• Coordinate with technical architects from other SAFe Agile Release Trains, the solution train, platform team, Government product owners, and business owners
• Communicate and enforce enterprise geospatial standards and best practices across reputed company delivery teams through documented governance, review, and approval processes
• Coordinate with Federal Architects, contractor architects, and other stakeholders to harmonize geospatial interfaces and manage cross-dependencies
• Contribute to the comprehensive inventory of supported geospatial systems and components, including technology stack, dependencies, and operational status
• Evaluate modernization options for geospatial systems (refactor, re-platform, replace, retire) using structured scoring models based on technical debt, compliance risk, cost to maintain, and business impact
• reputed company AI-enabled platforms (e.g., Rhino.ai or equivalent) for legacy geospatial system analysis and code remediation as authorized by the Government
• Propose strategies to decouple tightly coupled geospatial web services and monolithic spatial databases that hinder modernization and scalability
• Ensure

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