GIS-Focused Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for enterprise geospatial platforms and related systems.

• Support architecture design, cloud migration, system upgrades, infrastructure modernisation, and operational readiness activities.

• Plan and execute GIS platform upgrades, cloud migrations, system refreshes,disaster recovery exercises, and infrastructure security initiatives.

• Evaluate and recommend technology solutions aligned with Government technology directions, including cloud adoption, enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, secure-by-design frameworks, and modernisation of legacy systems.

• Design and support cloud-native and hybrid GIS architectures on AWS, Azure,GCC, or equivalent cloud platforms.

• Design GIS integration patterns, including REST APIs, web services, SFTP-baseddata exchanges, authentication and identity management, and system-tosystem integrations.

• Manage geospatial data architectures, including geodatabases, spatial datamodels, metadata management, data governance, and data lifecyclemanagement.

• Conduct technical assessments, solution reviews, sizing exercises, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting of complex application and infrastructure issues.

• Work with vendors and service providers to manage system implementation, upgrades, support, maintenance, and service delivery.

• Analyse business and technical requirements and develop practical, scalable, and sustainable GIS solutions.

• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably required to support enterprise geospatial platforms, systems, and services.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Geomatics,Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Engineering, or related disciplines.

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience as a Technical Lead, GIS SolutionArchitect, GIS Engineer, or equivalent role involving geospatial systems design,implementation, operations, and modernisation.

• Hands-on experience delivering enterprise GIS projects throughout the fullproject lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture design,implementation, testing, migration, deployment, and operations support.

• Strong knowledge of Enterprise GIS platforms, preferably Esri ArcGIS Enterprisecomponents including Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Data Store,ArcGIS Web Adaptor, ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Dashboards, and ArcGISOnline.

• Experience supporting production-critical GIS platforms with high availability,security, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and performance optimisationrequirements.

• Strong understanding of government security, compliance, and governancerequirements, including risk assessments, security reviews, and operationalreadiness activities.

• Results-oriented with strong stakeholder management, facilitation, andcommunication skills.

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to engagetechnical teams, senior management, vendors, and business stakeholderseffectively.

Technical Skills:

• Enterprise GIS Platforms: ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server,ArcGIS Data Store, ArcGIS Web Adaptor, ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGISDashboards, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Pro.

• Cloud and Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCC, GCC+, hybrid architectures,infrastructure modernisation, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, andperformance optimisation.

• Integration: REST APIs, web services, SFTP-based data exchanges,authentication and identity management, WOG AD, IAM, SSO, and API securityimplementations.

• Databases and Geospatial Data: PostgreSQL/PostGIS, SQL Server, Oracle,geodatabases, spatial data models, metadata management, data governance,and data lifecycle management.

• GIS Standards and Formats: feature services, map services, WMS, WMTS, WFS,GeoJSON, shapefiles, and related geospatial technologies.

• Automation and Scripting: Python, ArcPy, geoprocessing workflows, and GISautomation.