Engineering and AI Enterprise Architect, Client Delivery Solutions

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP’s global IT organization enables digital transformation, operational excellence, and innovation at scale. The Client Delivery IT Solutions (CDS) function ensures that digital, engineering, and AI capabilities directly support project delivery, engineering excellence, and business outcomes across WSP’s regions and disciplines.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

The Engineering & AI Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise architecture for engineering applications, digital delivery platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) within WSP's global, project‑centric environment. The role provides architectural leadership across applications, data, integration, platforms, and AI‑enabled capabilities, ensuring alignment between business strategy, client delivery needs, and technology execution. It balances enterprise‑level architectural rigor with practical delivery considerations, enabling scalable, secure, and value‑driven modernization of engineering and project delivery solutions. Operating within Client Delivery IT Solutions, the role partners closely with engineering leadership, Business and Technical Architecture functions, Data & AI teams, and global delivery stakeholders to translate complex delivery needs into coherent, future‑ready enterprise architectures.

Main 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.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Extensive 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.

About the role at WSP

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

What’s in it for you?

Work-life balance

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community. Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Belonging

We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote our culture of inclusivity.

Health & Wellbeing

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme. Our Virtual GP service gives you access to an NHS or Irish Medical Council GP at a time and place that suits you – giving you peace of mind and quick access to medical advice when you need it most. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

Flex your time

To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day. We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

Expiry

Note: This description reflects the role at a point in time and may be subject to change. This posting does not imply a job offer and does not bind WSP to any terms unless a formal written agreement is executed.

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