Job Description

The Opportunity

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.

Your Impact

Enterprise Engineering & AI Architecture

• 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.

Engineering Application Portfolio & Technology Standards

• 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.

AI Enablement & Project Data Architecture

• 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.

Architecture Assurance & Delivery Alignment

• 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.

Stakeholder Leadership & Influence

• 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.

The skills that set you apart

• 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.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Be a proactive self-starter with ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams and geographies.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and translate business strategy into actionable architectural outcomes.
• High degree of adaptability, comfortable operating at strategic and detailed levels.
• Delivery focused mindset with strong problem solving and decision-making capabilities. Comfortable with ambiguity, evaluating trade-offs across performance, security, cost, risk, and sustainability to support long-term enterprise objectives.

Compensation

BC, AB, SK, NWT & NU: $135,200 - $179,100
MB & ON: $ - $123,300 - $169,800
Atlantic Provinces & QC: $122,100 - $162,200

Disclosure:

The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Make Your Mark with WSP

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Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here.

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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