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At WSP USA, we design the infrastructure that powers the digital world. Our Center of Excellence supports the cloud, artificial intelligence, financial systems, healthcare, communications, and countless technologies that organizations and communities rely on every day.
We are seeking a Lead CFD Analyst to join our growing Data Centers Analytics team. This role offers the opportunity to serve as a technical leader, drive innovation in computational modeling, mentor emerging talent, and shape best practices that influence some of the world's most advanced data center projects.
Locations: New York, NY | Troy, NY | Atlanta, GA | Milwaukee, WI | Tempe, AZ | Herndon, VA
Your Impact
As a Lead CFD Analyst, you will serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader within our Data Centers Analytics practice. You will lead complex CFD studies, guide project teams, advance modeling capabilities, and help establish technical standards that drive project quality and consistency across the organization.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead the execution of advanced CFD analyses for mission critical facilities, including indoor airflow, thermal management, cooling optimization, contaminant dispersion, condensation control, and outdoor airflow studies.
- Serve as the technical authority for CFD methodologies, modeling assumptions, simulation quality, and interpretation of results.
- Lead technical reviews and provide QA/QC oversight for CFD studies completed by other analysts.
- Develop and implement CFD standards, best practices, workflows, and documentation to improve consistency and modeling efficiency.
Project Delivery
- Manage multiple CFD studies simultaneously while maintaining high quality and meeting project schedules and client commitments.
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, architectural, structural, and project management teams throughout project delivery.
- Provide technical direction during project kickoff meetings and critical design milestones.
- Support project managers in defining CFD scope, schedules, resource requirements, and technical deliverables.
Innovation and Process Improvement
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, scripting, template development, and workflow optimization.
- Lead development of internally developed CFD tools and software enhancements.
- Evaluate emerging CFD technologies, software platforms, and industry research to expand organizational capabilities.
- Champion the integration of digital engineering, AI-assisted workflows, and advanced analytics into CFD processes.
Mentorship and Team Development
- Mentor and train junior CFD analysts through technical guidance, coaching, and project support.
- Assist in developing onboarding materials, technical training programs, and CFD knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning across the analytics team.
Client Engagement and Business Development
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients by communicating complex engineering concepts in a clear and actionable manner.
- Lead client presentations, technical workshops, and CFD results reviews.
- Support proposal development, technical pursuits, and strategic client engagements.
- Help identify opportunities to expand CFD and analytics services across existing and new client relationships.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of experience applying Computational Fluid Dynamics in building systems, mission critical facilities, thermal management, or related fields.
- Demonstrated expertise in:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Thermodynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Building Mechanical Systems
- Airflow and Thermal Modeling
- Proven ability to independently lead complex engineering analyses and deliver high-quality results.
- Experience reviewing technical work and providing guidance to multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting technical findings to clients and leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- Demonstrated expertise with one or more CFD platforms including:
- STAR-CCM+
- Fluent
- OpenFOAM
- FDS
- RealityDC
- Experience developing custom models and User Defined Functions (UDFs).
- Proficiency with programming and automation tools including:
- Python
- C++
- Java
- Experience leading technical teams, mentoring staff, or managing a team of technical experts in a corporate environment.
- Experience supporting mission critical, data center, industrial, or large-scale commercial projects.
- Demonstrated understanding and incorporation of good business practices including KPIs, lessons learned and evolving corporate goals.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $131,000 - $182,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Keep the Internet Running and the World Working
At WSP USA, we design the infrastructure that powers the digital world. Our Center of Excellence supports the cloud, artificial intelligence, financial systems, healthcare, communications, and countless technologies that organizations and communities rely on every day.
We are seeking a Lead CFD Analyst to join our growing Data Centers Analytics team. This role offers the opportunity to serve as a technical leader, drive innovation in computational modeling, mentor emerging talent, and shape best practices that influence some of the world's most advanced data center projects.
Locations: New York, NY | Troy, NY | Atlanta, GA | Milwaukee, WI | Tempe, AZ | Herndon, VA
Your Impact
As a Lead CFD Analyst, you will serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader within our Data Centers Analytics practice. You will lead complex CFD studies, guide project teams, advance modeling capabilities, and help establish technical standards that drive project quality and consistency across the organization.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead the execution of advanced CFD analyses for mission critical facilities, including indoor airflow, thermal management, cooling optimization, contaminant dispersion, condensation control, and outdoor airflow studies.
- Serve as the technical authority for CFD methodologies, modeling assumptions, simulation quality, and interpretation of results.
- Lead technical reviews and provide QA/QC oversight for CFD studies completed by other analysts.
- Develop and implement CFD standards, best practices, workflows, and documentation to improve consistency and modeling efficiency.
Project Delivery
- Manage multiple CFD studies simultaneously while maintaining high quality and meeting project schedules and client commitments.
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, architectural, structural, and project management teams throughout project delivery.
- Provide technical direction during project kickoff meetings and critical design milestones.
- Support project managers in defining CFD scope, schedules, resource requirements, and technical deliverables.
Innovation and Process Improvement
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, scripting, template development, and workflow optimization.
- Lead development of internally developed CFD tools and software enhancements.
- Evaluate emerging CFD technologies, software platforms, and industry research to expand organizational capabilities.
- Champion the integration of digital engineering, AI-assisted workflows, and advanced analytics into CFD processes.
Mentorship and Team Development
- Mentor and train junior CFD analysts through technical guidance, coaching, and project support.
- Assist in developing onboarding materials, technical training programs, and CFD knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning across the analytics team.
Client Engagement and Business Development
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients by communicating complex engineering concepts in a clear and actionable manner.
- Lead client presentations, technical workshops, and CFD results reviews.
- Support proposal development, technical pursuits, and strategic client engagements.
- Help identify opportunities to expand CFD and analytics services across existing and new client relationships.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of experience applying Computational Fluid Dynamics in building systems, mission critical facilities, thermal management, or related fields.
- Demonstrated expertise in:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Thermodynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Building Mechanical Systems
- Airflow and Thermal Modeling
- Proven ability to independently lead complex engineering analyses and deliver high-quality results.
- Experience reviewing technical work and providing guidance to multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting technical findings to clients and leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- Demonstrated expertise with one or more CFD platforms including:
- STAR-CCM+
- Fluent
- OpenFOAM
- FDS
- RealityDC
- Experience developing custom models and User Defined Functions (UDFs).
- Proficiency with programming and automation tools including:
- Python
- C++
- Java
- Experience leading technical teams, mentoring staff, or managing a team of technical experts in a corporate environment.
- Experience supporting mission critical, data center, industrial, or large-scale commercial projects.
- Demonstrated understanding and incorporation of good business practices including KPIs, lessons learned and evolving corporate goals.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $131,000 - $182,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Data Analytics Consultant
Frame your degree for specialty occupation
USCIS evaluates whether your specific degree field directly relates to data analytics consulting duties. A statistics, computer science, or information systems degree strengthens your petition. If your degree is in a broader field, document how your coursework maps to the analytical functions in your job description.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting offers
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the prevailing rate for your occupation and worksite location. Run your SOC code and metro area through the OFLC Wage Search before negotiations so you know the floor your offer must meet.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Target employers with a documented history of H-1B filings for analytics roles. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified LCA sponsorship history by role, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already navigated this process for data consultants.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
Consulting roles often involve client sites or hybrid arrangements across locations. Each worksite where you'll work must have its own certified LCA on file before you begin work there. Raise this with your employer early so filings aren't delayed when your project assignment changes.
Review your O*NET profile for petition support
O*NET lists the typical education requirements and core tasks for data analytics roles by SOC code. Employers and immigration attorneys use this to build the specialty occupation argument in your I-129 petition, so understanding how your duties align with the profile strengthens your case.
Account for cap timing in your job search
H-1B cap selection rules have changed recently, so confirm the current registration window directly with USCIS before setting your start date expectations. If you're on OPT, your cap-gap protection and authorized end date affect when you can safely transition to a new consulting role.
H-1B Visa Data Analytics Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Data Analytics Consultant role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, data analytics consulting typically qualifies as a specialty occupation because the work requires applying statistical modeling, data engineering, or business intelligence methods that demand at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as data science, computer science, statistics, or applied mathematics. Your employer documents this connection in the I-129 petition filed with USCIS.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for analytics consultants?
Start with Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified H-1B LCA sponsorship history searchable by role and location. This lets you filter your job search to companies that have already filed for data analytics positions, rather than discovering a sponsorship gap after a lengthy interview process.
What happens to my H-1B status if my consulting project ends between client engagements?
Your employer remains your H-1B petitioner throughout your status period, not any individual client. Bench time between projects doesn't automatically terminate your status, but your employer must continue paying your certified LCA wage. If your employment ends, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and file for a transfer.
Can my H-1B cover work at multiple client sites as a consultant?
Each worksite location where you'll perform work requires its own certified LCA, filed with DOL and listing the specific address and prevailing wage for that area. If your consulting role moves you across client offices in different metro areas, your employer must file separate LCAs for each site before you begin work there.
How long does H-1B status last for a data analytics consulting role, and can it be extended?
H-1B status is initially granted for up to three years and can be extended for another three years, reaching a six-year maximum under standard rules. If your employer has started a PERM labor certification or filed an I-140 immigrant petition on your behalf before that limit, additional extensions beyond six years may be available under AC21 provisions.