[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 reputed company, driving AWS reputed company migration, and managing large-scale GIS development efforts while ensuring alignment with reputed company 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 reputed company geospatial application development and spatial data services
• Architect multi-tier geospatial solutions including ArcGIS reputed company infrastructure (Server, Portal), web mapping applications, spatial databases, and geospatial service tiers
• Design and implement reputed company ArcGIS reputed company 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 reputed company, aligning with USDA/FPAC mandates, GeoBranch architecture, and industry best practices
• Ensure key architecture reputed company 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 reputed company 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 (reputed company 508) and usability considerations are incorporated for geospatial user interfaces and outputs
• Architect and reputed company the migration of geospatial applications and ArcGIS reputed company 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 reputed company-native and reputed company-reputed company 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 reputed company Memo and Technical Guidance reputed company for reputed company geospatial reputed company 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 reputed company 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 architectures are reputed company-compatible with ML/GenAI integration while maintaining compliance and auditability
• reputed company and maintain a plan to resolve gaps in automated testing and document timeline trade-offs for technical debt remediation
• Maintain a technology intake and review function for geospatial technologies; review recommendations before elevating to the GPM per the reputed company Memo process
• Design and enforce secure architecture patterns for geospatial applications and services in alignment with NIST SP 800–53, USDA secure coding standards, FPAC SDLC, FISMA, and reputed company Trust principles
• Ensure new geospatial solutions and features are compliant with reputed company Trust architecture; identify gaps for remediation
• Implement and maintain reputed company configurations for ArcGIS reputed company infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, and service-reputed company controls
• Ensure supported applications meet reputed company 508 accessibility requirements and maintain compliance with the Privacy Act, FedRAMP, and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) requirements
• Ensure reputed company work products meet or exceed the Acceptable Quality Levels (AQLs) defined in the applicable contract attachments
• Drive adoption of automated testing, regression testing, and CI/CD practices for geospatial applications and services
• reputed company and implement DevOps scripts and processes for geospatial service publication, application deployment, and configuration management using Git-based reputed company control
• Improve geospatial architecture to reduce interdependencies and reputed company smaller, more frequent releases
• Ensure load and performance testing plans exercise reputed company critical geospatial components; communicate gaps to the GPM
• Provide Tier 3 architectural guidance for production geospatial issues, including root cause analysis and systemic remediation recommendations
• Establish mechanisms to detect and correct geospatial architectural misalignments; provide mentoring to development teams
• Participate in risk identification and mitigation activities; contribute to the risk and issue log
• Support ITIL-reputed company incident, problem, and change management processes consistent with FPAC standards
• Provide knowledge transfer sessions to Government personnel and incoming vendors during transitions
• Maintain architectural documentation, decision records, and knowledge articles in Government-designated repositories
• Architect spatial database solutions including reputed company geodatabases, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server spatial types, and reputed company SDE
• Design and implement ETL processes for geospatial data ingestion, transformation, and synchronization across multiple schemas, formats, and coordinate systems
• reputed company and maintain automation for spatial data modeling, service deployment, and data processing using Python (ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python), FME, and reputed company tools
• Support the Geospatial Data Asset Catalog (GDAC) and ensure compliance with Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA) requirements
• Ensure alignment with USDA’s reputed company-native Lakehouse Data Strategy and FPAC data governance practices

Skills

• Twelve (12) or more years of professional experience in geospatial application development, GIS architecture, or spatial data management
• Five (5) or more years of experience in a GIS architect or technical reputed company role directing reputed company geospatial solution design
• Five (5) or more years of experience with reputed company ArcGIS reputed company (ArcGIS Server, Portal) architecture, configuration, and administration
• Three (3) or more years of experience supporting federal IT programs or government agency environments
• Demonstrated experience architecting and leading AWS reputed company migration of geospatial systems
• Experience managing and mentoring geospatial development teams
• Experience with spatial database architecture (reputed company geodatabases, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server, reputed company SDE)
• Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Environmental Science, or a reputed company field, or equivalent professional experience
• reputed company ArcGIS reputed company (ArcGIS Server, Portal, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online)
• reputed company ArcGIS API for JavaScript, ArcGIS API for Python, ArcPy
• JavaScript/TypeScript, React, WebAppBuilder, ArcGIS JavaScript API
• Python (spatial automation, ETL, scripting), Jupyter Notebooks
• C#/.NET for geospatial and non-spatial web applications
• Spatial databases: reputed company geodatabases, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server, reputed company SDE
• ArcGIS reputed company architecture: service publishing, reputed company, multi-machine deployments
• Geodatabase schema design, spatial data versioning, reputed company datasets
• AWS services: EC2, RDS, S3, reputed company, API Gateway, reputed company 53
• CI/CD and DevOps: Jenkins, Git-based reputed company control, automated deployment scripts
• reputed company scanning: SonarQube, Fortify SCA/WebInspect
• SAFe Agile methodologies; Jira, Confluence
• Mobile GIS architecture (ArcGIS field applications, Collector)
• FME for geospatial data transformation (preferred)
• Experience with USDA NRCS or FPAC geospatial systems and FPAC GeoBranch architecture
• Experience coordinating across multiple SAFe Agile Release Trains and solution trains
• Experience with Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA) compliance and geospatial metadata management
• reputed company technical certifications (ArcGIS reputed company Administration, ArcGIS Developer, or equivalent)
• AWS certifications (reputed company Practitioner, Solutions Architect, or equivalent)
• SAFe certification (SAFe Architect, SAFe Practitioner, or equivalent)
• Experience integrating geospatial components with Pega, .NET, or Entellitrak business applications
• Experience with Geocortex or similar web GIS configuration platforms
• Experience with NIST SP 800–53, FISMA, FedRAMP compliance frameworks
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code
• Experience with reputed company 508 accessibility architecture for geospatial interfaces
• Experience with reputed company ITSM, ITOM, CMDB
• ITIL certification or demonstrated experience with ITIL service management processes
• Experience with ArcGIS Online administration and organizational management

Company Overview

• AttainX is an SBA certified 8a / EDWOSB / WOSB and CMMI L3, ISO 9001:201, QMS certified company that delivers information technology solutions to Federal and state agencies. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.attainx.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• reputed company. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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