GIS Architect
Informed Solutions · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Architecture
- Company size
- 501-1000
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Design enterprise-scale geospatial solutions using GIS platforms and open-source tools to build secure, scalable location-based services for public-sector and sustainability-focused projects.
The Opportunity
Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.
You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.
At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.
About Us
Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.
About the role
As a GIS Architect at Informed Solutions, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture and technical direction of innovative digital solutions that solve complex challenges across the public sector. The work you do will have a real and lasting impact on society, helping to make the UK healthier, safer, and more sustainable.
You'll lead the design of enterprise-scale geospatial solutions, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to define technical strategy, establish architectural standards, and ensure the successful delivery of scalable, secure and resilient digital services. You'll provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through to delivery and continuous improvement.
As a consultancy, we are proudly technology independent. Rather than prescribing technologies, we focus on selecting the right tools and platforms to solve our clients' challenges. Our teams work across a broad technology landscape, cloud hosting solutions, and a variety of modern GIS platforms and open-source geospatial technologies, giving you the opportunity to influence solution design using the best technology for each project.
Many of our projects leverage Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and open-source geospatial technologies, enabling clients to unlock the value of location intelligence through advanced mapping, spatial analysis and data integration.
This role offers flexibility to be based from our Altrincham (Manchester), Westminster (London), Leeds (Yorkshire) and Edinburgh (Scotland) offices where you'll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment, supported by our hybrid working approach.
Requirements
Key responsibilities:
Key requirements:
Desirable skills
Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other.
There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.
Key abilities that are necessary for success
We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.
We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. However, after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels, we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex, innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.
These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support.
As colleagues, we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress on a personal and professional level.
Benefits
Benefits
Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
These can include:
*Qualifying period applies
Culture
We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.
We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.
We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.
Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.
We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.
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