Position Title: GIS Architect
Location: Raleigh, NC 27604
Position Status: 12 month contract-to-hire
Compensation: Extremely competitive
Shift: Monday - Friday (8am to 5pm)
Summary
We are currently seeking GIS Architect applicants to work in our Raleigh, NC office. This position will join a team servicing the North Carolina Department of Transportation or other North Carolina based agencies.
- Participates in needs assessments/requirements meetings and document solutions for GIS enterprise use
- Installation and configuration of ArcGIS Server software
- Provide/write GIS system technical recommendations, standard operating procedures, administrative and help documents for clients and technical teams
- Assess customer's existing GIS environments and recommend areas for improvements in application technology, system performance, and software migration plans
- Communicate with architects and developers to successfully deploy custom solutions
- Write and execute test plans
- Troubleshoot solution errors and support end users
- Present system design information to technical and non-technical audiences
- Create mapping, imagery, and data services
Minimum Qualifications
- Comfort discussing and documenting configuration requirements with clients
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; quickly adapt and respond to industry changes as well as internal initiatives
- Ability to analyze business processes and systems and migrate to/integrate with geospatial systems
- Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment; offer constructive feedback and direction to support goals
- Exceptional customer service orientation
- Excellent interpersonal, writing, and presentation skills
- Experience in consulting, solution design, software configuration, and operational support
- A.A., B.A, A.S., B.S. or Graduate Degree in Geography/GIS, Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Ability to pass background check for certain projects or contracts
Preferred Qualification
- Knowledge and understanding of GIS principals, theories and practices.
- Experience with ESRI products suite including mobile, desktop, server and database.
- Ability to design and implement enterprise spatial solutions
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for GIS data workflows and versioned editing
- Ability to troubleshoot issues with system implementation
- Knowledge of one or more of the following architectural patterns & techniques
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); typical implementation, usage, benefits and limitations
- Representational State Transfer (REST); typical implementation, usage, benefits and limitations
- Domain Driven Design (DDD); typical implementation, usage, benefits and limitations
- Domain-Specific Modelling (DSM) principles & experience with Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Understanding of Design Patterns and their proper usage in one or more languages
- Understanding of one or more programming languages (C#, JavaScript, Visual Basic, etc.)
- Understanding of one or more database systems (SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.)
- Experience managing one or more hosting platforms (servers, virtual machines, Amazon, Azure, etc.)
- Understanding of source control best practices.
- Experience using GIT or TFS.
- Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Technical Qualifications
- 3+ years of enterprise-level GIS technology experience
- 3+ years of direct experience working with Esri GIS Tools and applications
- Demonstrated experience integrating multiple enterprise technologies in an enterprise environment
- Scripting or programming experience (e.g. Python, SQL, or HTML)