Location
Flexible - based from our offices in Altrincham (Manchester), Westminster (London), Leeds (Yorkshire) or Edinburgh (Scotland) with hybrid working approach.

Hours
Full Time - standard consultancy hours with flexibility.

Salary
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

About the Role
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. 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. Your work will have a real and lasting impact on society, helping to make the UK healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

You will 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. Providing technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through to delivery and continuous improvement, you will influence solution design using the best technology for each project.

Informed Solutions is proudly technology independent, working across a broad technology landscape including cloud hosting solutions and a variety of modern GIS platforms and open-source geospatial technologies. Many 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.

You will be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment supported by a dynamic and nurturing workplace culture that rewards initiative, flexibility, and offers a career path tailored to your aspirations.

Experience
- Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise GIS and geospatial solutions within complex digital environments.
- Strong understanding of software architecture including distributed systems, microservices, event-driven and serverless architectures.
- Experience designing cloud-native solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong knowledge of GIS platforms, spatial data management and open-source geospatial technologies such as PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS, Leaflet, OpenLayers or similar.
- Experience integrating geospatial services and APIs into enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of architecture governance, security, scalability and non-functional requirements.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

About You
- Able to work effectively in environments involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills with respect for diverse perspectives and ability to work collaboratively in diverse teams.
- Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments requiring collaborative risk management.
- Strong communication skills including clear, constructive written outputs and respectful verbal delivery.
- Personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility with a positive mindset to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative workplace.

Qualifications
- Desirable: Experience working within a consultancy environment supporting multiple clients and projects.
- Desirable: Experience delivering solutions within the UK public sector.
- Knowledge of Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice and Government Digital Service (GDS) principles.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or Jenkins.
- Familiarity with enterprise GIS platforms such as Esri ArcGIS Enterprise alongside open-source geospatial ecosystems.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps, architectural governance and technology strategy.
- Professional certifications in cloud platforms, enterprise architecture or GIS technologies.

Senior colleagues and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.