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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 Visa Sponsorship as a Data Analytics Consultant
Align your degree to the role explicitly
Specialty occupation approval hinges on a direct connection between your degree field and analytics work. A degree in mathematics, statistics, or computer science strengthens your case; a business degree alone can trigger a Request for Evidence from USCIS.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your location and role level. Run the OFLC Wage Search using your job title and worksite zip code before you negotiate, so you know the floor.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to find employers who have already certified LCAs for data analytics roles. Established filing history signals the employer knows the sponsorship process, which shortens your timeline from offer to petition.
Flag consulting firm structures early in negotiations
Many analytics consultants work at client sites, not the sponsoring employer's headquarters. USCIS scrutinizes third-party placement arrangements, so confirm your employer has documented a specific end-client project and a bona fide employer-employee relationship before you sign.
Use O*NET to build your specialty occupation argument
O*NET lists the knowledge domains and education requirements tied to data analytics occupations. Referencing the specific O*NET profile in your petition documentation helps establish that the role routinely requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field.
Start PERM documentation before your OPT clock runs out
If your employer plans to sponsor a green card, the PERM labor certification process can take a year or more before an I-140 is even filed. Raise long-term sponsorship intent during the offer stage so DOL recruitment steps don't eat into your authorized work period.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Data Analytics Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B?
Yes, as long as the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as statistics, computer science, information systems, or applied mathematics. Generic business or management degrees without a quantitative focus can complicate the petition. USCIS evaluates the actual duties in the job description, not just the job title, so the role must demonstrably require specialized analytical knowledge.
Which visas can sponsor a Data Analytics Consultant?
H-1B is the most common path for most nationalities. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which carries a 10,500 annual cap that has never been exhausted and allows renewable two-year status without a lottery. Canadians and Mexicans may qualify under TN visa if the role maps to an eligible USMCA profession. Longer-term, EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM is available for employers willing to invest in permanent residency.
What degree does an employer typically require for visa sponsorship in this role?
Most employers sponsoring data analytics consultants specify a bachelor's degree in statistics, computer science, data science, mathematics, or a closely related quantitative discipline. A degree in a non-quantitative field may still qualify if you hold a master's or if the employer can document that the specific role requires that field's methodology. USCIS will assess whether the degree directly relates to the actual job duties described in the LCA.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring Data Analytics Consultant roles?
Browse Migrate Mate to find U.S. employers with verified sponsorship history for data analytics and consulting positions. Because the platform shows companies with documented LCA filing activity, you can focus your applications on employers who have already navigated the sponsorship process for similar roles, rather than starting that conversation from scratch.
Does working at a client site affect my visa sponsorship as a consulting analyst?
It can. USCIS applies additional scrutiny to consulting arrangements where the sponsored employee works at a third-party client location rather than the petitioning employer's premises. Your employer must demonstrate a bona fide employer-employee relationship and show there is a specific, non-speculative project for you to perform. Vague staffing arrangements without an identified end client or defined scope of work are a common reason consulting-based H-1B petitions receive Requests for Evidence.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Data Analytics Consultant jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.