Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms, bringing together engineering, advisory, and scientific expertise. The Engineering & AI Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise architecture for engineering applications, digital delivery platforms, and artificial intelligence within WSP’s global, project-centric environment.
Responsibilities
- Define and govern the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and target states for engineering applications, digital delivery platforms, project data, and AI‑enabled capabilities
- Develop enterprise roadmaps and reference architectures aligned with WSP’s business, digital, and delivery strategies, ensuring architectural coherence across applications, data, integration, platforms, and AI services
- Define and maintain the standard enterprise engineering application portfolio, including core, supported, niche, and deprecated solutions
- Establish application and integration standards, reference architectures, and usage guardrails to drive standardization, interoperability, reuse, and rationalization, while enabling controlled innovation and AI adoption and acceleration
- Define and govern the enterprise project data strategy and architectural framework supporting project delivery, analytics, AI enablement, and lifecycle information management
- Lead architecture for the responsible, secure, and scalable adoption of AI within engineering and project delivery, ensuring alignment with enterprise data, security, ethics, and governance frameworks
- Partner with Business stakeholders, IT Business Partners, and CDS Front Door functions to assess architectural impacts, risks, dependencies, and value of initiatives
- Act as a design authority for complex, cross‑domain solutions, governing major solution designs, integrations, and vendor selections to ensure adherence to target architecture and delivery objectives
- Serve as a trusted architectural advisor to senior business, engineering, and IT stakeholders
- Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences and influence alignment across a global, matrixed organization without direct authority
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture roles within complex organizations
- Proven experience with engineering applications, digital delivery platforms, and software asset intensive environments
- Practical experience designing and governing data and AI enabled architectures, including platforms, patterns, and risk management
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Be a proactive self-starter with ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams and geographies
- Strong organizational, analytical, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and translate business strategy into actionable architectural outcomes
- High degree of adaptability, comfortable operating at strategic and detailed levels
- Delivery focused mindset with strong problem solving and decision-making capabilities. Comfortable with ambiguity, evaluating trade‑offs across performance, security, cost, risk, and sustainability to support long‑term enterprise objectives
Benefits
- Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation (or other personal time)
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
- Flexible and agile workplace model
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