GIS Architect

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

 Ardent is seeking a GIS Architect to join our team.  

This is a remote role.

Ardent is looking for a dynamic Senior GIS System Architect with a strong interest in the future of the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) geospatial database. Working with our federal client in DC, the role will facilitate and support the processes by which data products would be received, reviewed, managed, and stored by Integrity within a Government system using designated geospatial formats, schema, and packaging. The goal of the project is to propose an infrastructure solution to provide a front-end user-facing application to data stores housed in both DHS and DOI Cloud environments in coordination with the HIFLD Open and Secure data portals.

Duties:

• Applies knowledge of enterprise IT needs to design improved processes, generate and capture user requirements and ensures solutions adhere to DHS Enterprise Architecture models, standards, and requirements.
• Serves as an advisor and proposes changes to existing architectures to meet emerging DHS requirements, affect efficiencies in workflows, or improve outcomes.
• Delivers complex information technology solutions with a particular understanding of complex geospatial integration.
• This position also supports the development of processes and methodologies to enhance the overall software process.
• Coordinate with the government to ensure all activities are in accordance with DHS geospatial standard operating procedures, federal doctrine, legal authorities, and DHS management directives.
• Provide high-level architectural expertise in assessing and developing architectural products for enterprise and operational business lines.
• Leverage internal platforms such as the GII to support and optimize HIFLD program-based infrastructure Leverage external platforms such as the GeoPlatform to support and optimize HIFLD program-based infrastructure
• Apply expertise to make recommendations on network processing, client/server relational database structure, data storage, data access, systems integration, IT security, and application interfaces and solutions for network problems.
• Develop architecture plans that ensure geospatial systems and solutions are optimized, resilient, scalable, interoperable, and based on open standards.
• Develop and maintain technical architecture documentation and artifacts to support operations, maintenance, and migration/transition from an existing data center, cloud environment, or hosting environment into another data center, cloud environment or emerging hosting environment.

Qualifications: 

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.