ArcGIS Enterprise Architect

HERE Technologies•United States Home Office,

5d•$170,000 - $215,000

About The Position

As a Senior Architecture Manager (ArcGIS Enterprise Architect), you will define and evolve the architecture of our ArcGIS Enterprise platform running on AWS EKS-based Kubernetes infrastructure. You will play a key role in ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and long-term sustainability of the platform while enabling teams to build GIS and analytics applications on top of it. This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility and strategic impact, partnering closely with engineering and platform teams.

Requirements

Experienced architect with a strong foundation in cloud-native systems, distributed platforms, and GIS technologies.
Hands-on experience designing and operating ArcGIS Enterprise in production environments
Experience building and scaling enterprise systems on Kubernetes-based platforms (e.g., AWS EKS, AKS)
Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture principles
Experience designing for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency
Ability to guide and influence application teams on architecture and non-functional requirements
Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, platform, and business stakeholders
Interest or experience in GIS analytics, data-intensive applications, or large-scale platform environments
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD practices, and observability concepts

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the reference architecture for ArcGIS Enterprise deployments on Kubernetes
Define scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient platform designs, including high availability and disaster recovery strategies
Provide architectural guidance across key ArcGIS components (Portal, ArcGIS Server, Data Stores, Web Adaptors)
Establish best practices for authentication, authorization, identity integration, and platform security
Partner with DevOps and platform engineering teams to ensure solutions are production-ready and operationally sound
Guide application teams on architecture decisions and ensure alignment with platform capabilities and constraints
Define and promote non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, reliability, and observability
Contribute to governance by documenting architecture standards, identifying risks, and influencing platform roadmap decisions