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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
The Design & Engineering Digital & AI Transformation Director is accountable for rewiring how Design & Engineering delivers value to clients by embedding digital, data, and AI capabilities into core delivery workflows, decision making, and operating rhythms. This role is about changing how work gets done to make better decisions, reduce risk, improve quality and outcomes, and scale what works across Design & Engineering.
ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Set the Digital & AI direction for the Service Line
- Create a Design & Engineering specific digital & AI strategy in the context of our 3yr-out vision and strategy of the Design & Engineering, and the strategic priorities of Industries & Sectors.
- Define and regularly update “digital must-win” areas by conducting competitor analyses and gap analysis within existing portfolio of tools and digital products and partnerships.
- Identify which Design & Engineering delivery domains and workflows must be redesigned.
- Setup collaboration rhythm with Digital Intelligence, Investment governance, pipeline management approach and prioritization framework, change network, CoPs, etc.
- Set clear objectives for the transformation that link to overall Design & Engineering performance metrics.
Own the Opportunity Portfolio
- Collect and pro-actively source digital opportunities and use cases within the organization, in close collaboration with peers in other Service Lines and Industries.
- Kick-start and actively participate in AI studios around the most promising opportunities, to quickly validate and potentially prototype, ideally in real client settings.
- Work closely together with Digital Intelligence counterparts to make buy/build/partner decisions, as well as start/continue/stop decisions, following pre-set guidelines.
- Actively stop or kill initiatives that do not demonstrate clear value, adoption potential, or strategic fit.
- Participate regularly in client conversations to better understand client needs.
- Act as primary interface and product sponsor to product managers, e.g., help get funding, set requirements, mobilize business SME involvement, anything needed to deliver at pace.
Rewire Service Delivery workflows
- Redesign end-to-end Design & Engineering delivery workflows to embed digital and AI where they materially improve outcomes.
- Work with Service Line leadership to support adjustments to new ways of working.
Embed Digital & AI in our capabilities and drive adoption
- Build a local network of digital & AI champions (change agents and catalysts) within each Service Area Group.
- Strengthen foundational digital skills and AI usage within the organization (e.g., Drive Citizen Development participation, measure and steer on AI usage, make part of SPO).
- Setup adoption campaigns around new tooling / digital products, and ways of working, incl. training programs and updated global procedures.
Strengthen data foundations and other boundary conditions
- Turn global data strategy into an actionable plan within the service line, with clear focus around the priority areas (digital must-wins).
- Create knowledge and data libraries around discipline areas, managed within Communities of Practice.
- Setup data governance (who collects, who structures and maintains) and measure adherence and progress.
- Define any other pre-requisites for digital innovation and bake into transformation plan.
- Own the Design & Engineering Digital and AI innovation backlog and roadmap, in partnership with Digital Intelligence, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and measurable value delivery.
- Drive investment prioritisation and portfolio transparency within the Innovation governance framework, enabling clear decision-making and optimal allocation of resources.
- Champion digital adoption across the Design & Engineering workforce and project delivery, working closely with Services leadership to embed tools, behaviours, and ways of working that maximise impact.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- Extensive leadership experience building and scaling global digital, AI, automation or technology-enabled capabilities within the AEC or related professional services industry, with clear accountability for capability maturity, business value and enterprise impact.
- Experience embedding responsible AI principles, including governance, transparency, human oversight, risk mitigation and regulatory alignment into enterprise AI adoption and operational practices.
- Proven strategic leadership in defining and executing a global Digital & AI capability vision aligned to business goals, enterprise priorities and long-term transformation objectives.
- Deep expertise in digital, AI, automation and emerging technologies, with a strong understanding of how these can be applied to improve delivery models, business performance and client outcomes within complex organizational environments.
- Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and broad adoption of new digital and AI capabilities, tools and ways of working across global and local teams.
- Strong track record of identifying, sponsoring and scaling successful innovations, pilots and proof of concept initiatives into practical, repeatable and value-adding business capabilities.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across global, regional and local teams, building commitment to shared priorities and securing support for transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Strong understanding of scalable delivery models, process optimization and operational excellence, with experience designing approaches that improve consistency, efficiency and quality in digital and AI-enabled services.
- Governance and risk management experience, including understanding of data privacy, AI ethics, information security and relevant compliance requirements, with the ability to embed these into capability design, deployment and ongoing management.
- Demonstrated talent and capability development experience, including building learning programs, enabling skills development and fostering communities of practice that strengthen digital, data and AI capability across the organization.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect cross-functional teams around a unified transformation agenda and deliver outcomes across a complex matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated strategic judgment and execution discipline, with the ability to translate vision into clear priorities, practical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
- Leadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.
- Degree level education in a relevant technical or commercial discipline such as digital technology, data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, business or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced degree preferred such as an MBA or a relevant Master’s in artificial intelligence, data science, digital transformation, technology management, engineering, business or a related field, or equivalent executive level experience in complex global organizations.
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. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $186,000 - $213,900 USD. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
The salary range for this position is $144,800 - $217,200 CAD. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
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INTRODUCTION
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
The Design & Engineering Digital & AI Transformation Director is accountable for rewiring how Design & Engineering delivers value to clients by embedding digital, data, and AI capabilities into core delivery workflows, decision making, and operating rhythms. This role is about changing how work gets done to make better decisions, reduce risk, improve quality and outcomes, and scale what works across Design & Engineering.
ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Set the Digital & AI direction for the Service Line
- Create a Design & Engineering specific digital & AI strategy in the context of our 3yr-out vision and strategy of the Design & Engineering, and the strategic priorities of Industries & Sectors.
- Define and regularly update “digital must-win” areas by conducting competitor analyses and gap analysis within existing portfolio of tools and digital products and partnerships.
- Identify which Design & Engineering delivery domains and workflows must be redesigned.
- Setup collaboration rhythm with Digital Intelligence, Investment governance, pipeline management approach and prioritization framework, change network, CoPs, etc.
- Set clear objectives for the transformation that link to overall Design & Engineering performance metrics.
Own the Opportunity Portfolio
- Collect and pro-actively source digital opportunities and use cases within the organization, in close collaboration with peers in other Service Lines and Industries.
- Kick-start and actively participate in AI studios around the most promising opportunities, to quickly validate and potentially prototype, ideally in real client settings.
- Work closely together with Digital Intelligence counterparts to make buy/build/partner decisions, as well as start/continue/stop decisions, following pre-set guidelines.
- Actively stop or kill initiatives that do not demonstrate clear value, adoption potential, or strategic fit.
- Participate regularly in client conversations to better understand client needs.
- Act as primary interface and product sponsor to product managers, e.g., help get funding, set requirements, mobilize business SME involvement, anything needed to deliver at pace.
Rewire Service Delivery workflows
- Redesign end-to-end Design & Engineering delivery workflows to embed digital and AI where they materially improve outcomes.
- Work with Service Line leadership to support adjustments to new ways of working.
Embed Digital & AI in our capabilities and drive adoption
- Build a local network of digital & AI champions (change agents and catalysts) within each Service Area Group.
- Strengthen foundational digital skills and AI usage within the organization (e.g., Drive Citizen Development participation, measure and steer on AI usage, make part of SPO).
- Setup adoption campaigns around new tooling / digital products, and ways of working, incl. training programs and updated global procedures.
Strengthen data foundations and other boundary conditions
- Turn global data strategy into an actionable plan within the service line, with clear focus around the priority areas (digital must-wins).
- Create knowledge and data libraries around discipline areas, managed within Communities of Practice.
- Setup data governance (who collects, who structures and maintains) and measure adherence and progress.
- Define any other pre-requisites for digital innovation and bake into transformation plan.
- Own the Design & Engineering Digital and AI innovation backlog and roadmap, in partnership with Digital Intelligence, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and measurable value delivery.
- Drive investment prioritisation and portfolio transparency within the Innovation governance framework, enabling clear decision-making and optimal allocation of resources.
- Champion digital adoption across the Design & Engineering workforce and project delivery, working closely with Services leadership to embed tools, behaviours, and ways of working that maximise impact.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- Extensive leadership experience building and scaling global digital, AI, automation or technology-enabled capabilities within the AEC or related professional services industry, with clear accountability for capability maturity, business value and enterprise impact.
- Experience embedding responsible AI principles, including governance, transparency, human oversight, risk mitigation and regulatory alignment into enterprise AI adoption and operational practices.
- Proven strategic leadership in defining and executing a global Digital & AI capability vision aligned to business goals, enterprise priorities and long-term transformation objectives.
- Deep expertise in digital, AI, automation and emerging technologies, with a strong understanding of how these can be applied to improve delivery models, business performance and client outcomes within complex organizational environments.
- Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and broad adoption of new digital and AI capabilities, tools and ways of working across global and local teams.
- Strong track record of identifying, sponsoring and scaling successful innovations, pilots and proof of concept initiatives into practical, repeatable and value-adding business capabilities.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across global, regional and local teams, building commitment to shared priorities and securing support for transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Strong understanding of scalable delivery models, process optimization and operational excellence, with experience designing approaches that improve consistency, efficiency and quality in digital and AI-enabled services.
- Governance and risk management experience, including understanding of data privacy, AI ethics, information security and relevant compliance requirements, with the ability to embed these into capability design, deployment and ongoing management.
- Demonstrated talent and capability development experience, including building learning programs, enabling skills development and fostering communities of practice that strengthen digital, data and AI capability across the organization.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect cross-functional teams around a unified transformation agenda and deliver outcomes across a complex matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated strategic judgment and execution discipline, with the ability to translate vision into clear priorities, practical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
- Leadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.
- Degree level education in a relevant technical or commercial discipline such as digital technology, data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, business or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced degree preferred such as an MBA or a relevant Master’s in artificial intelligence, data science, digital transformation, technology management, engineering, business or a related field, or equivalent executive level experience in complex global organizations.
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. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $186,000 - $213,900 USD. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
The salary range for this position is $144,800 - $217,200 CAD. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
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Align your credentials to U.S. standards
Arcadis Engineering Program Manager roles typically require a bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering. If your degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved service before you apply.
Target practice areas with active hiring
Arcadis staffs Engineering Program Managers across water, transportation, and environmental remediation practices. Focusing your application on these verticals puts you in front of hiring teams with the most consistent demand for this role.
Understand how Arcadis structures LCA filings
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL before petitioning USCIS. At a firm like Arcadis, the LCA is tied to your primary work location, so clarify with your recruiter which office your role is assigned to before the offer stage.
Clarify OPT cap-gap coverage during negotiations
If you're on F-1 OPT and your status expires before an H-1B takes effect on October 1, cap-gap protection keeps you authorized to work. Confirm with Arcadis's immigration counsel that your timeline is covered before accepting an offer.
Use Migrate Mate to find open roles
Engineering Program Manager openings at Arcadis are spread across multiple U.S. locations and practice groups. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for Arcadis postings that are open to visa sponsorship so you're only spending time on roles that fit your situation.
Prepare a project portfolio before interviews
Arcadis interviewers for program management roles focus heavily on cross-functional project delivery and client-facing experience. Bring documented examples of managing scope, schedule, and budget on infrastructure or consulting engagements to strengthen your case.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Arcadis sponsor H-1B visas for Engineering Program Managers?
Yes, Arcadis sponsors H-1B visas for Engineering Program Managers. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards because it requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline. Arcadis works with immigration counsel to file petitions, and sponsorship is part of the standard hiring process for international candidates in this function.
How do I apply for Engineering Program Manager jobs at Arcadis?
You can search for open Engineering Program Manager roles directly on the Arcadis careers portal, or use Migrate Mate to browse and filter Arcadis postings that are open to visa sponsorship. When applying, tailor your resume to the specific practice area listed in the posting, as Arcadis structures its program management hiring by service line rather than centrally.
Which visa types does Arcadis commonly use for Engineering Program Manager roles?
Arcadis sponsors multiple visa categories for this role, including H-1B, H-1B1 visa for Chilean and Singaporean nationals, TN visa for Canadian and Mexican engineers, F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates, J-1 visa for eligible exchange visitors, and employment-based Green Cards through the EB-2 and EB-3 PERM process for longer-term sponsorship. The right visa depends on your nationality, degree level, and career stage.
What qualifications does Arcadis expect for Engineering Program Manager positions?
Arcadis typically looks for a bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, mechanical, or a related engineering field, along with substantial project or program management experience in infrastructure or consulting contexts. PMP certification strengthens your application but is not always required. International candidates should ensure their degree has been evaluated for U.S. equivalency, particularly if the degree is from a non-U.S. institution with a three-year structure.
How long does the sponsorship process take for an Engineering Program Manager at Arcadis?
Timeline depends on the visa type. An H-1B petition filed in the April lottery takes effect October 1 at the earliest, meaning a gap of several months between offer and start. PERM-based Green Card sponsorship through DOL and USCIS can run two to four years or longer depending on your country of birth. Confirm which pathway Arcadis intends to use with your recruiter before you accept an offer.