Geospatial Full Stack Architect

Accenture Federal Services | IT Services and Consulting

2h 2m ago

On-site

Full Time

Lead

United States of America

$109.5k - $194.7k USD/yr

Title: Geospatial Full Stack Architect Location: Washington, DC

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

The Role:

The Geospatial Full Stack Application Architect will be responsible for the end-to-end design and development of a cloud-native application and its supporting backend services on AWS. The platform delivers radar, satellite, forecast-model, observational, geospatial, and historical weather data to web clients in real time, with a target of 99.99% availability and compliance with FISMA High requirements. This is a hands-on role using React, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, MapLibre, and WebGL. The architect will provide technical leadership, guide planning and code reviews, and establish frontend, backend, data, and geospatial development standards.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead full-stack, geospatial, application architecture across the web and backend services layers.
Design and build React 19 micro-frontends using Module Federation.
Define clear API and data contracts for geospatial and weather information.
Design the processing and delivery of raster, vector, gridded, point, spatial, and time-series data.
Set standards for coordinate systems, map projections, spatial accuracy, geometry processing, tiling, and browser rendering.
Develop REST APIs, BFF services, and domain services running on Kubernetes.
Design real-time data delivery using WebSockets, server-sent events, and event-driven patterns.
Design caching, tiling, and delivery approaches that perform well with large weather datasets and browser-based maps.
Build web-based geospatial visualizations using MapLibre, deck.gl, WebGL, or similar tools.
Work with Platform Engineering on CI/CD, infrastructure, deployments, observability, availability, disaster recovery, and FISMA High requirements.
Lead architecture decisions, technical planning, development standards, and code reviews.

Here's What You Need:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Geographic Information Systems, or a related field.
6+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including technical leadership on programs of similar size and complexity.
5+ years of hands-on experience building microservices, APIs, and Kubernetes-based applications.
Strong JavaScript or TypeScript experience with a modern web framework; React is preferred.
Hands-on experience with micro-frontend architecture and Module Federation.
Hands-on experience developing BFF services, microservices, and REST APIs.
Strong experience building browser-based geospatial applications, real-time map visualizations, projections, raster and vector data, spatial processing, tiling, and spatial databases.
Experience with weather-data formats such as GRIB2, netCDF, Zarr, Icechunk or similar scientific formats.
Proven technical leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Would Be Nice To Have:

AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification.
Experience with MapLibre GL JS, deck.gl, WebGL, GeoTools, JTS, GDAL, Turf.js.
Spring Boot and Java 25 experience, including virtual threads.
Experience supporting meteorological, environmental, scientific, or other data-intensive systems.
Microservices & API Implementation P4 Modern web frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js) Framework P4, Geospatial Application Development P4.

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$109,500—$194,700 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.

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Required Skills

reactspringbootkuberneteswebglawstypescriptjavascript

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English