Engineering & AI Enterprise Architect, Client Delivery Solutions (#443)

WSP • New York, NY

7d • Remote

About The Position

WSP is a leading engineering and professional services firm focused on delivering sustainable solutions. The global IT organization drives digital transformation and innovation. The Client Delivery IT Solutions (CDS) function ensures digital, engineering, and AI capabilities support project delivery and business outcomes. The Engineering & AI Enterprise Architect defines and governs the enterprise architecture for engineering applications, digital delivery platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI) in a global, project-centric environment. This role provides architectural leadership across applications, data, integration, platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities, aligning business strategy with technology execution. It balances architectural rigor with practical delivery, enabling modernization of engineering and project delivery solutions. Operating within CDS, the role collaborates with engineering leadership, Business and Technical Architecture, Data & AI teams, and global delivery stakeholders to translate delivery needs into future-ready architectures. This position can be located anywhere in the U.S. where WSP has an office.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior