AECOM

Senior Sensor Fusion & Data Architecture Lead

AECOM$100K — $130K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree plus 6 years of relevant experience or equivalent education.
  • Experience with Enterprise data architecture and real-time/streaming data.
  • Proficiency in cloud and edge technologies, preferably Azure.
  • Familiarity with system-of-systems design in transportation or smart infrastructure.
  • Graduate degree in IT or engineering preferred with over 10 years of experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end sensor fusion architecture for multiple systems.
  • Define architecture, data models, and standards to support advanced AI.
  • Act as technical authority, translating business needs into technical patterns.
  • Lead people-based sensing initiatives by collaborating with vendors.
  • Ensure data quality and privacy in partnership with architecture and data science teams.
  • Interface with OT teams to document machine-generated sensor data.
  • Translate operational use cases into data and integration requirements.
  • Rapidly prototype data analytics models for testing hypotheses.

Benefits

  • Work on-site five days a week.
  • Opportunity to shape a new role in a significant project in sustainable transportation.
  • Potential for impactful work in developing cutting-edge airport technologies.
  • Collaboration with diverse teams and vendors.
Full Job Description
Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Sensor Fusion & Data Architecture Lead. This position is based on-site, out of Mississauga.

We are seeking professionals to join our team to help us build one of the most advanced, sustainable and passenger-friendly airports in the world.

Major Responsibilities:
  • Own the end-to-end sensor fusion architecture across people, machines, and enterprise systems (edge 12 cloud 12 analytics).
  • Define reference architecture, data models, APIs, and standards to support simulation, digital twin, and agentic AI.
  • Act as technical authority across vendors and internal teams, translating business needs into scalable technical patterns.
  • Act as the business lead for people-based sensing, working directly with vendors to understand, access, and unlock available data.
  • Partner with architecture and data science to validate data quality, coverage, and fitness-for-purpose, while ensuring privacy-by-design.
  • Serve as the primary interface with OT teams and vendors to identify, access, and document machine-generated sensor data.
  • Translate operational use cases (reliability, prediction, optimization, flow dwell, experience etc...) into concrete data and integration requirements.
  • Validate signal meaning, consistency, and limitations, and ensure machine data is usable downstream for analytics and modeling.
  • Rapidly prototype analytics and models combining people and machine sensor data to test hypotheses quickly.
  • Create demo-ready insights, simulations, and decision support artifacts to prove value and guide investment.
  • Feed evidence back into sensing priorities, architecture decisions, and roadmap sequencing.


Qualifications

Minimum requirements:
  • BA/BS + 6 YORE or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
  • Experience with Enterprise data architecture, real-time/streaming data, cloud + edge (Azure preferred), system-of-systems design; experience in transportation, smart infrastructure, or operational environments.

Preferred requirements:
  • Graduate Degree in IT or engineering, or a related technical field with 10+ years of experience.


Additional Information

This position requires work on-site/out of the office 5 days a week

This is a newly created position.

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AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government. With approximately 45,000 employees around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering solutions that create, enhance and sustain the world's built, natural, and social environments. A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in more than 150 countries and had revenue of $8.0 billion during the 12 months ended March 31, 2014.

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Size
51,000 employees
Market Cap
$11.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$200.8 million
Founded
1990
5 Year Trend
-6.3%
Revenue
$13.3 billion
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