Principal Management Consultant

Arcadis • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Management Consultant to help scale and deliver
its growing digital analytics portfolio by providing a clear architectural
vision across data platforms, analytics, and enterprise systems. This role is
critical to ensuring that digital solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned
with client business needs, while enabling consistent data governance and
accelerating value realization across complex utility environments.

The Principal Management Consultant is responsible for defining, governing, and
evolving the enterprise‑wide data and analytics architecture that enables
secure, trusted, and scalable use of data across the organization. This role
provides architectural leadership across data platforms, integrations,
analytics, and governance, with a strong focus on supporting operational,
regulatory, and strategic decision‑making for clients in the utility sector.
This role will partner closely with business leaders, IT, and analytics teams to
align data strategy with enterprise objectives, modernize legacy environments,
and enable advanced analytics use cases such as AMI, asset management, customer
operations, and regulatory reporting. We are location agnostic for this
position.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, data architecture, or analytics architecture roles
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise data and analytics platforms
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, UAF.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data integration, analytics, and BI architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern data ecosystems (Azure preferred)
• Proven ability to work across business and technical teams in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the water, wastewater, or utility sector, including familiarity with utility operational systems including SCADA, AMI, asset management, customer systems, or regulatory reporting.
• Experience establishing or leading enterprise data governance programs.
• Knowledge of utility operational systems and data domains.
• Experience supporting large, multi‑year enterprise transformation programs.
• Professional certifications (e.g., Azure, data architecture, or analytics certifications).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in defining and recommending enterprise data and analytics architectures, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Establish architectural standards and design patterns for data ingestion, integration, storage, analytics, and visualization.
• Develop and maintain enterprise roadmaps for data platforms and emerging technologies, ensuring strong alignment between business strategy, data strategy, and technology investments.
• Lead the architecture and design of modern analytics platforms, including cloud‑based solutions such as Azure, Microsoft Fabric, enterprise data warehouses, and BI tools.
• Guide the development of scalable and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, and analytics environments while ensuring performance, reliability, security, and cost optimization.
• Support the adoption of self‑service analytics capabilities while maintaining appropriate enterprise governance.
• Partner closely with business and IT stakeholders to define and implement enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Establish standards and approaches for data quality, metadata management, master and reference data, and data lifecycle management.
• Support data cataloging, lineage, and stewardship initiatives while ensuring compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements relevant to utilities.
• Design and document enterprise data flows across key operational systems such as AMI, CIS, ERP, CMMS, SCADA, and GIS.
• Promote consistent integration patterns and interoperability across vendor and in‑house solutions.
• Lead architectural reviews and provide recommendations for new systems, enhancements, and third‑party technology platforms.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, program managers, and business stakeholders by translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
• Mentor solution architects and technical teams, promoting best practices in enterprise architecture.
• Act as a subject matter expert to support client engagements, pursuits, and proposal development in enterprise data and analytics.

Benefits

• Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.
• We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year.
• The salary range for this position is $136,400 - $204,600. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees