As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
The AI Governance & Enablement Lead operates the machinery that gets AI deployed: running intake gates, maintaining registers, executing EU AI Act compliance in practice, and clearing blockers for builders. This is an execution role, not a policy-writing role — your success is measured in workflows shipped with a clean audit trail, in days not weeks.
Requirements
- 5+ years in operations, PMO, quality management, data governance or compliance in a technology or engineering environment
- Hands-on experience running ISO-style management-system processes (ISO 27001 or ISO/IEC 42001 a strong plus; 42001 Lead Implementer certification ideal)
- Working knowledge of EU AI Act and GDPR and their practical implementation
- Comfortable in platform admin consoles (M365 / Copilot Studio a plus)
- Sharp risk-assessment and technical-writing skills — checklists and registers, not policy papers
- Pragmatic, service-minded
- Nice-to-have: CISSP, CIPP, CISA, or AI-specific certifications
Job responsibilities
- Run the intake and qualification gate for new AI workflows: owner named, data access confirmed, risk tier assigned — fast turnaround as a service standard
- Maintain the core registers: approved AI tools, active agents (Copilot Studio estate), the workflow registry, and the decommissioning record
- Execute risk-tiering of AI use cases per the EU AI Act; document human-oversight requirements and keep the audit trail regulators and clients will ask for
- Coordinate pre-deployment testing and sign-offs per workflow; publish results
- Verify and register IP terms per platform agreement (the knowledge-layer register)
- Support builders directly: office hours, templates, fast answers — governance as enablement
- Report a monthly governance line into the AI Studio leadership scorecard
- Stay current on emerging AI regulation and translate it into checklist changes, not memos
What we offer
A front-row seat in one of the most ambitious AI programmes in the built environment: a live enterprise rollout, a strategy with C-suite reporting, and a governance function designed as an accelerator rather than a brake. You'll work with a global team across six workstreams and a 4,000+ digital community, with real ownership from day one — the registers you build become company infrastructure.
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in AI governance, technology governance, risk management, information governance or related discipline
- Proven track record supporting responsible AI adoption within complex global organizations
- Strong working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, data pipelines, model development, deployment and monitoring
- Experience developing, implementing or supporting governance frameworks, policies and standards for AI
- Experience defining and operating governance controls such as risk assessments, approvals, audits and monitoring
- Ability to interpret and apply relevant regulations, standards and frameworks (eg. AI Act-style regulation, data protection, security, ethics)
- Good understanding of data governance, privacy, information security and technology risk management principles
- Strong analytical and risk-based thinking to evaluate emerging technologies and recommend governance solutions
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to build trusted relationships across a matrixed organisation
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex AI governance concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to operate independently on complex and ambiguous AI governance matters and drive outcomes through influence
- Degree level education in IT, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Governance, Risk Management, Law or relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Professional certification in AI governance, information governance, risk management, data privacy or cybersecurity
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
