Manager of Enterprise Engineering Platforms, Strategy & Execution

Black & Veatch Family of Companies • Olathe, KS

34d

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled strategic and experienced Manager of Enterprise Engineering Platforms, Strategy & Execution
to join our Digital and Information Technology team.

This role serves as the strategic leader responsible for defining and delivering the enterprise vision, roadmap, and operational excellence for Black & Veatch’s engineering systems and desktop application ecosystem. You will provide forward looking leadership across the full application lifecycle ensuring these platforms enable high performance engineering outcomes at scale, which includes architecture, deployment, optimization, and sustainment.
As the steward of BV’s engineering technology landscape, you bring deep expertise in complex engineering application environments and modern delivery architectures. This role aligns technology capabilities with business strategy, ensuring that engineering teams are equipped with resilient, intuitive, and future ready solutions.
This leader orchestrates collaboration across a broad network of stakeholders to anticipate needs, drive innovation, and deliver integrated solutions that strengthen BV’s competitive advantage. Through strategic planning, governance, and continuous improvement, this role ensures BV’s engineering systems remain a catalyst for operational excellence, digital transformation, and long term enterprise value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• U.S. citizen capable of being exposed to data classified as CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information)
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
• 10+ years progressive experience in IT, engineering and construction practices, and engineering applications including leading large-scale projects and initiatives in a complex organization

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing the application lifecycle for desktop, cloud, and hosted engineering solutions from key software providers: Autodesk, Bentley, Esri, Hexagon, AVEVA, etc.
• Experience in the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industry
• Background in designing, building and maintaining enterprise design and modeling environments
• Experience with mapping a solution’s recommended deployment application architecture into high-level architectures which align with enterprise standards
• Client focus and proven ability to solve business problems through the appropriate application of technology
• Understanding of cross-disciplinary AEC workflows and project execution in CAD/CAE technologies.
• Capability to multi-task and effectively prioritize within a multi-tasking environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks independently and deliver to expectations as agreed with stakeholder/requester
• Excellent verbal, writing and presentation skills targeted to all levels of leadership
• Experience leading small technical teams in an operational environment.
• Understanding of and experience with the software development lifecycle and methodologies
• Enterprise data and systems integration experience
• Software and systems architecture design, cloud services, and hosting experience
• Experience managing third party SaaS and application hosting platforms
• Understanding of application packaging and deployment technologies and practices via SCCM
• Experience with ServiceNow reporting/ ITIL service management framework.
• Experience manipulating large Excel datasets via advanced formulas

Responsibilities

• Ensure all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner; driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities as needed.
• Define and maintain application & technology roadmaps which ensure deployed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with vendor lifecycles & the overall BV portfolio strategy.
• Partner with business, technical, and software/service providers to translate business & technology needs into potential solutions with costs/benefits analysis, achievable project timelines, and BV-standard deployment architectures.
• Manage relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, and more to achieve BV business outcomes through vendor solutions and services.
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for executing work within the portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of work in alignment with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure engineering systems are continuously available, performant, and supported per business needs, IT policies, and contracted KPIs/SLAs.
• Collaborate with business/discipline stakeholders to package and deploy application updates to BV workstations which keep engineering client applications current and free of defects or vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate with business owners, software providers, and BV software procurement teams to ensure applications are continuously rationalized, licenses are right-sized, and contracts renewed.
• Lead application virtualization strategy for engineering applications deployed in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).

Benefits

• We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day one.
• Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
• To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
• A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union.
• Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
• As employee-owners, our professionals are empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial rewards of the success through stock ownership.

What This Job Offers

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