Geospatial Full Stack Architect
About The Position
The Geospatial Full Stack Application Architect is responsible for the end-to-end design and development of a cloud-native application and supporting backend services on AWS. The platform delivers radar, satellite, forecast-model, observational, geospatial, and historical weather data to web clients in real time, with a target of 99.99% availability and compliance with FISMA High requirements. This is a hands-on role using React, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, MapLibre, and WebGL. The architect provides technical leadership, guides planning and code reviews, and establishes frontend, backend, data, and geospatial development standards. At Accenture Federal Services, the role supports the US federal government across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. The company describes a collaborative community that supports employee growth through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Geographic Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of full-stack engineering experience, including technical leadership on programs of similar size and complexity.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience building microservices, APIs, and Kubernetes-based applications.
- Strong JavaScript or TypeScript experience with a modern web framework; React is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with micro-frontend architecture and Module Federation.
- Hands-on experience developing BFF services, microservices, and REST APIs.
- Strong experience building browser-based geospatial applications, real-time map visualizations, projections, raster and vector data, spatial processing, tiling, and spatial databases.
- Experience with weather-data formats such as GRIB2, netCDF, Zarr, Icechunk, or similar scientific formats.
- Proven technical leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification.
- Experience with MapLibre GL JS, deck.gl, WebGL, GeoTools, JTS, GDAL, or Turf.js.
- Spring Boot and Java 25 experience, including virtual threads.
- Experience supporting meteorological, environmental, scientific, or other data-intensive systems.
- Microservices & API Implementation P4.
- Modern web frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js) Framework P4.
- Geospatial Application Development P4.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-stack geospatial application architecture across web and backend services layers.
- Design and build React 19 micro-frontends using Module Federation.
- Define API and data contracts for geospatial and weather information.
- Design processing and delivery of raster, vector, gridded, point, spatial, and time-series data.
- Establish standards for coordinate systems, map projections, spatial accuracy, geometry processing, tiling, and browser rendering.
- Develop REST APIs, BFF services, and domain services running on Kubernetes.
- Design real-time data delivery using WebSockets, server-sent events, and event-driven patterns.
- Design caching, tiling, and delivery approaches suited to large weather datasets and browser-based maps.
- Build web-based geospatial visualizations using MapLibre, deck.gl, WebGL, or similar tools.
- Work with Platform Engineering on CI/CD, infrastructure, deployments, observability, availability, disaster recovery, and FISMA High requirements.
- Lead architecture decisions, technical planning, development standards, and code reviews.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training.
- A wide variety of benefits; specific benefits are not listed in the job posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
