Principal Technology Architect, GIS Platform

Requisition # 175324

Job Category:
Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit:
Technology & Security

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

Oakland

PG&E’s Information Technology (IT) organization is comprised of various unified departments that work together to deliver high-quality technology solutions. The GIS Center of Excellence (CoE) team sits within the Enterprise Platforms and Infrastructure organization and has the responsibility for designing, building, operating, and maintaining spatial/GIS applications. The GIS CoE brings together highly skilled professionals who deliver solutions and products using waterfall, agile, and design-thinking practices.

We take time to understand our business partners’ needs and translate them into solutions that create intuitive user experiences and improve safety, productivity, and overall well-being for PG&E employees and customers.

The GIS CoE is embarking on a large multi-year program called Elevate, which will modernize the Enterprise GIS ecosystem at PG&E including existing systems of record, systems of engagement and analytics, while delivering transformational value to the business. The stated purpose of the Elevate program is “enabling geospatial intelligence to power our future”. The GIS technology platform will be based on Esri ArcGIS technology hosted on an AWS Cloud environment.

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, Dev Sec Ops , 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.

• 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 Area
  
  s, 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…