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 description:
Lead, govern and continuously improve enterprise platforms to maximise business value, adoption, resilience and compliance across Arcadis.
Role accountabilities:
- Provide overall leadership and direction for platform management and support services.
- Own the operating model for platform support, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Lead and develop Solutions Consultants across multiple seniority levels.
- Act as senior escalation point for complex platform, vendor, and business issues.
- Represent the platform portfolio in senior stakeholder and vendor governance forums.
- Drive strategic alignment between platform roadmaps and business priorities.
- Act as the senior technical and functional authority across assigned platforms.
- Define and approve platform standards, architectures, and integration patterns.
- Oversee platform lifecycle management, including upgrades, deprecations, and risk mitigation.
- Guide cross-platform design decisions and best practices.
- Ensure robust knowledge management and documentation standards.
- Oversee platform performance, cost optimisation, and capacity planning.
- Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, and fit for enterprise-scale use.
- Overall health, stability, and performance of assigned platforms.
- Effective vendor performance and contract outcomes.
- Compliance with Arcadis policies, security, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Deep enterprise-scale platform leadership and technical expertise.
- Proven people leadership and organisational change experience.
- Strong strategic, stakeholder, and vendor management skills.
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
- Deep enterprise-scale platform leadership and technical expertise
- Proven people leadership and organisational change experience
- Strong strategic, stakeholder, and vendor management skills
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
