Principal Technology Architect, GIS Platform
Role Overview
The Principal Technology Architect – GIS Platform serves as a senior individual-contributor to provide technical direction to development teams for Elevate architecture, design, development, deployment, modernization, and operational evolution of enterprise GIS platforms delivered through the Elevate program.
The role supports development teams by establishing and advancing GIS platform architecture in partnership with Enterprise and Solution Architects, Product, Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, Data, Operations, and business stakeholders.
This role combines deep hands-on GIS platform expertise with enterprise architecture leadership.
The Principal Architect defines reusable architecture patterns, platform standards, deployment models, integration approaches, and technical guardrails for secure, scalable, resilient, high-performing GIS capabilities.
The role provides consultation and technical direction to delivery teams, leads resolution of complex platform issues, and ensures that architecture decisions align with enterprise standards and Elevate objectives.
The successful candidate will: Lead architecture, design, and technical direction for development teams supporting applications, services, geodatabases, integrations, and supporting cloud capabilities across Elevate.
Serve as a principal technical authority for GIS solution design and provide hands-on architectural guidance to multidisciplinary teams of employees and contractors, including onshore and offshore resources.
Define and govern architecture patterns, engineering standards, platform configurations, integration approaches, and nonfunctional requirements for security, scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability, and operability.
Partner with PG&E Functional Areas, including Gas Operations and Electric Operations, to translate complex business and utility requirements into modern GIS platform capabilities for field and office users.
Advance rapid delivery of modern GIS capabilities, including mobile solutions, spatial analytics, GIS data pipelines, web-based mapping, remote-sensing solutions, and enterprise integrations.
Simplify, standardize, and modernize GIS platforms and technical solutions while reducing technical debt and unnecessary customization.
Collaborate with the extended GIS leadership team across Delivery, Operations, Business Architecture, GIS Data and Analytics, Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure to achieve cohesive execution and shared outcomes.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and our Oakland, CA office approximately 2 - 3 days per week, or more, based on business needs.
Key Skills for This Role
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Qualifications Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, geography, GIS, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. 10 years of experience developing, architecting, modernizing, or maintaining enterprise GIS technology platforms. Demonstrated experience establishing strategic vision, architecture direction, and technical roadmaps for GIS platforms supporting large enterprise or utility functions. Extensive hands-on experience deploying and supporting ArcGIS Enterprise in a large enterprise environment. Deep expertise in Esri ArcGIS technology, enterprise GIS architecture, spatial data management, and GIS industry principles, theories, and best practices. Experience architecting GIS platforms in cloud environments, with strong knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and cloud-native engineering practices. Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, security, and production-readiness practices. Experience with Python, JavaScript, .NET, ArcGIS APIs, web services, geoprocessing, and GIS automation. Ability to translate complex business and utility requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, supportable GIS and IT architecture. Excellent analytical, technical, architecture, documentation, written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-influence skills. Demonstrated success navigating complex organizational, technical, and cultural challenges while fostering collaboration and shared outcomes. Desired: Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, GIS, or a related field. Experience delivering large-scale enterprise modernization or re-platforming initiatives in regulated utility or critical-infrastructure environments. Deep knowledge of Gas and Electric utility operations, asset management, field workflows, and enterprise integration needs. Experience with enterprise geodatabases, multiuser editing, versioning, replication, compression, indexing, database performance tuning, and GIS data lifecycle management. Experience with Esri Utility Network deployment, migration, modeling, editing, integration, and operational support practices. Strong background in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent technology. Experience integrating security and DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines for enterprise platforms. Knowledge of Schneider ArcFM toolsets, and ArcFM configuration Experience with PostgreSQL for GIS workloads and knowledge of legacy Oracle and ArcSDE implementations. Familiarity with SAFe or Agile delivery in large enterprise programs Strong change-management and technical-influence skills that support adoption of new architecture standards and platform capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, geography, GIS, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. 10 years of experience developing, architecting, modernizing, or maintaining enterprise GIS technology platforms. Demonstrated experience establishing strategic vision, architecture direction, and technical roadmaps for GIS platforms supporting large enterprise or utility functions. Extensive hands-on experience deploying and supporting ArcGIS Enterprise in a large enterprise environment. Deep expertise in Esri ArcGIS technology, enterprise GIS architecture, spatial data management, and GIS industry principles, theories, and best practices. Experience architecting GIS platforms in cloud environments, with strong knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and cloud-native engineering practices. Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, security, and production-readiness practices. Experience with Python, JavaScript, .NET, ArcGIS APIs, web services, geoprocessing, and GIS automation. Ability to translate complex business and utility requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, supportable GIS and IT architecture. Excellent analytical, technical, architecture, documentation, written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder-influence skills. Demonstrated success navigating complex organizational, technical, and cultural challenges while fostering collaboration and shared outcomes. Desired: Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, GIS, or a related field. Experience delivering large-scale enterprise modernization or re-platforming initiatives in regulated utility or critical-infrastructure environments. Deep knowledge of Gas and Electric utility operations, asset management, field workflows, and enterprise integration needs. Experience with enterprise geodatabases, multiuser editing, versioning, replication, compression, indexing, database performance tuning, and GIS data lifecycle management. Experience with Esri Utility Network deployment, migration, modeling, editing, integration, and operational support practices. Strong background in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent technology. Experience integrating security and DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines for enterprise platforms. Knowledge of Schneider ArcFM toolsets, and ArcFM configuration Experience with PostgreSQL for GIS workloads and knowledge of legacy Oracle and ArcSDE implementations. Familiarity with SAFe or Agile delivery in large enterprise programs Strong change-management and technical-influence skills that support adoption of new architecture standards and platform capabilities.
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