Geospatial Architecture Manager
About The Position
The Enterprise Geospatial team is seeking a Geospatial Architecture Manager with deep expertise in enterprise geospatial architecture, Esri platforms, and cloud-native solutions. This role is accountable for defining and governing the architecture, standards, and roadmaps for a scalable Enterprise Geospatial Platform supporting multiple business units. The Geospatial Architecture Manager partners closely with business and IT leaders to translate strategic objectives into target-state architectures, ensuring consistency, scalability, security, and long-term sustainability of geospatial capabilities across the organization. This position establishes strategy, develops business plans, and oversees and manages the design, development and implementation of technology solutions to meet business needs. Leaders in this role provide leadership and oversight to manage performance and results in one or more Information Technology (IT) disciplines. Individuals will be accountable for the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems and supported business processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years in geospatial architecture, enterprise architecture, or GIS technology leadership roles
- Strong experience defining enterprise technology roadmaps and architectural standards
- Proven ability to translate business strategy into scalable platform architectures
- Deep knowledge of Esri geospatial platforms and enterprise GIS best practices
- Experience leading architecture in complex, regulated enterprise environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with executive-level presence
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years designing enterprise-scale Esri platform architectures
- Hands-on architecture experience with AWS-based geospatial solutions
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native deployment patterns, including containers and Kubernetes
- Experience defining DevSecOps-aligned architectural patterns
- Familiarity with integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven architectures
- AWS, Kubernetes, or architecture certifications
- Bachelor's Degree
Responsibilities
- Define and govern enterprise geospatial architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures
- Develop current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business strategy and technology roadmaps
- Decompose business initiatives into architectural capabilities, patterns, and services
- Lead architecture reviews, design approvals, and technology evaluations for geospatial solutions
- Establish architectural guardrails for cloud-native, API-driven, and platform-based geospatial solutions
- Define data architecture patterns, including geospatial data pipelines, integration, and analytics enablement
- Guide migration strategies from legacy GIS solutions to modern, cloud-based architectures
- Serve as the architectural authority for Esri Platform deployments and integrations
- Anticipate industry trends and emerging technologies to influence future-state geospatial architecture
- Provides leadership, influence, vision, and direction to the organization to contribute to achieving the company's goals
- Works with IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in alignment with business strategy
- Oversees value stream by focusing on cost and risks of technology portfolio to meet business needs
- Supports and fosters innovative technologies to deliver new ideas that enable business transformation
- Ensures high levels of ongoing system and application performance in production environments
- Oversees development of processes and tools to automate code releases from development to operations (DevOps)
- Attracts, develops and retains a high-performing and diverse team
- Establishes and drives technology roadmaps that align with current and future business needs
- Manages third party technical and outsourcing relationships to deliver project and operational support objectives
- Ensures technology processes are conducted in line with applicable standards and company policies
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
