[Remote] GIS Architect 2

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ATTAINX INC is seeking a GIS Architect 2 to provide technical architecture leadership for geospatial systems and GIS capabilities within the USDA NRCS IT ecosystem. This role involves leading GIS architecture decisions, driving AWS cloud migration, and managing large-scale GIS development efforts while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and the conservation mission needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead 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 enterprise geospatial application development and spatial data services
• Architect multi-tier geospatial solutions including ArcGIS Enterprise infrastructure (Server, Portal), web mapping applications, spatial databases, and geospatial service tiers
• Design and implement enterprise ArcGIS Enterprise architecture, including service publishing strategies, security 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 enterprise, aligning with USDA/FPAC mandates, GeoBranch architecture, and industry best practices
• Ensure key architecture decisions 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
• Lead a systems review within the first 30 days to identify and categorize geospatial technical debt and establish a transparent backlog
• Use existing geospatial services provided by FPAC GeoBranch when available; integrate supported applications with those services in alignment with Conservation Section priorities
• When 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 Branch 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 (Section 508) and usability considerations are incorporated for geospatial user interfaces and outputs
• Architect and lead the migration of geospatial applications and ArcGIS Enterprise 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 cloud-native and cloud-ready geospatial architectures using approved AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53) within the FPAC General Support System (GSS)
• Ensure alignment with the FPAC Cloud Memo and Technical Guidance Framework for all geospatial cloud adoption and migration activities
• Re-architect geospatial applications for scalability and resilience in AWS environments
• Lead 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
• Lead 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 enterprise geospatial standards and best practices across all 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
• Leverage 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

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