Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 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 solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role purpose:
Provide strategic and tactical leadership to ensure Arcadis' Design & Engineering business derives maximum value from its portfolio of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), engineering intelligence, and digital design platforms. The role acts as a trusted partner between Design & Engineering business leaders, project teams, technology functions, and AI software vendors to accelerate the adoption of AI-enabled solutions that improve engineering productivity, project delivery, knowledge reuse, technical excellence, and innovation. This role is responsible for helping shape how AI becomes embedded within engineering and design workflows across Arcadis, enabling teams to work smarter, make better decisions, and deliver greater value to clients.
Role description:
- Build strong relationships with Engineering Directors, Technical Directors, BIM & Digital Engineering leaders, Discipline Leads, and project delivery teams.
- Identify opportunities where AI can improve engineering workflows, project delivery, quality assurance, knowledge discovery, and technical decision-making.
- Partner with engineering communities to understand challenges and develop AI-enabled solutions that address real-world project needs.
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Provide consultancy and best-practice guidance on selecting AI solutions most appropriate to engineering and project delivery challenges.
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Lead evaluation, implementation, and optimisation of AI platforms and services.
Develop and manage relationships with key AI platform providers.
Lead AI adoption initiatives across Design & Engineering teams.
- Develop engagement strategies that increase awareness and effective use of AI capabilities.
- Ensure AI solutions are implemented in line with Arcadis AI Principles and governance frameworks.
- Ensure appropriate controls exist around project data, client information, and intellectual property.
- Oversee AI platform administration, upgrades, integrations, and roadmap planning.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Digital Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and knowledge intelligence platforms.
- Experience working within Design & Engineering, Digital Engineering, BIM, or Engineering Technology environments.
- Ability to translate business challenges into technology-enabled solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management, consulting, and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent communication and influencing capabilities.
- Experience managing strategic vendor relationships.
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Experience deploying, administering, or governing enterprise-grade Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM), and Agentic AI platforms within a business environment.
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Experience applying AI technologies to design workflows, engineering analysis, BIM processes, digital delivery, technical documentation, and project execution.
Why Arcadis?
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’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, 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.
Join Arcadis. Create a 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
- Selection of platforms and authoring tools
- Strong technical knowledge and understanding of platforms and portfolio
- Ability to independently solve problems and accomplish tasks with high-level objectives
- Very good interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills
- Project management skills, able to lead projects from inception to delivery
- Business relationship management
- Vendor relationship and contract management, including (re)negotiation
- Knowledge and best practices sharing across the tower
- Mentoring of junior team members
- Administration and maintenance of CDEs, including utilizing AI
- Assist with application patches, upgrades and enhancements
- Track and forecast platform usage and monitor cloud and desktop application performance metrics
- Management of Appstore software catalogue
- Act as escalation contact for Level 3 support queries related to platform
Arcadis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcadis and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcadis.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as good, with strong medical benefits cited in multiple regions. Feedback suggests healthcare is a relative bright spot within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) and pension offerings are often called out positively, with contributions viewed as solid. Feedback suggests retirement benefits enhance the overall package even when salary sentiment is mixed.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working arrangements, hybrid options, and wellbeing support (such as EAP and benefits platforms) are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests the flexibility of the package adds meaningful value beyond base pay.
Arcadis Insights
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
