GIS System Architect

Job Description

The GIS Center of Excellence

Fujitsu’s organizational model includes several North American centers of excellence (COE). The geographic information systems (GIS) COE is one of them. It covers all of Fujitsu's North American offices – a global offering, a local presence – and carries out projects around the world.

Fujitsu gives the GIS world several elements that distinguish it from other companies. Those main elements include the following:

• Fujitsu offers a combination of specialized resources in the development of large GIS systems, integrated into a broad resource pool covering all IT sectors.
• Fujitsu has acquired unique expertise building GIS systems of all sizes over the past 30 years. The unparalleled methods and tools developed ensure seamless system development and evolution.
• Since the early 1980s, Fujitsu has completed more than 500 large-scale GIS projects worth from a few thousand to several million dollars for public and private organizations in more than 30 countries, and in a variety of industries. All those initiatives have led to successes that our customers are quick to point out.
• Fujitsu helps organizations develop a holistic view of their data and systems, regardless of the nature of those data and systems. The result is optimal planning of information management across the organization.

Fujitsu is recognized in North America and around the world as a key player in the GIS sector, having completed numerous major integration projects. Customers recognize Fujitsu's unique expertise and value. Fujitsu has been working with some of those customers for more than 25 years.

Fujitsu sets itself apart from other firms by the breadth and diversity of its GIS resource pool (more than 90 geomatics specialists, working exclusively on GIS projects), its ability to successfully conduct very large IT integration projects that customers are proud of, and its expertise in implementing systems. 

Benefits

What to expect at Fujitsu:

• From 3 to 4 weeks vacation, depending on experience.
• Retirement plan (RRSP) with employer contribution equivalent to up to 4% of your base salary per year.
• Full group insurance from day one.
• Many other benefits …

1. Fujitsu also offer:

• Local, personalized career guidance by another GIS practitioner.
• A tailored GIS training program.
• Work-life balance.
• The opportunity to work remotely in distributed, multicultural teams.

Requirements: 

Must have a Minimum one hundred twenty (120) months of experience developing GIS system architectures, frameworks and strategies, either for an organization or for an enterprise application area, to meet the business 
and application requirements.

Must have a Minimum one hundred twenty (120) months of experience analyzing and evaluating alternative technology solutions to meet business problems.

Must have a Minimum of sixty (60) months of experience in managing a system architecture team to achieve project goals.

Must have a Minimum sixty (60) months of experience in establishing phased project plans that lead to a completed target architecture.

Must have a Minimum seventy-two (72) months of experience defining and documenting interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems, to external systems and between new and existing systems.

Must have a minimum of sixty (60) months of experience using MS Office Suite and ESRI GIS products.