Principal Management Consultant
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description
Arcadis is seeking a Principal Management Consultant to help scale and deliver its growing digital analytics portfolio by providing a clear architectural vision across data platforms analytics and enterprise systems. This role is critical to ensuring that digital solutions are scalable secure and aligned with client business needs while enabling consistent data governance and accelerating value realization across complex utility environments.
The Principal Management Consultant is responsible for defining governing and evolving the enterprisewide data and analytics architecture that enables secure trusted and scalable use of data across the organization. This role provides architectural leadership across data platforms integrations analytics and governance with a strong focus on supporting operational regulatory and strategic decisionmaking for clients in the utility sector. This role will partner closely with business leaders IT and analytics teams to align data strategy with enterprise objectives modernize legacy environments and enable advanced analytics use cases such as AMI asset management customer operations and regulatory reporting. We are location agnostic for this position.
Role Accountabilities
Enterprise Data Architecture & Strategy
Provide leadership in defining and recommending enterprise data and analytics architectures including conceptual logical and physical data models. Establish architectural standards and design patterns for data ingestion integration storage analytics and visualization. Develop and maintain enterprise roadmaps for data platforms and emerging technologies ensuring strong alignment between business strategy data strategy and technology investments.
Analytics Platforms & Cloud Architecture
Lead the architecture and design of modern analytics platforms including cloudbased solutions such as Azure Microsoft Fabric enterprise data warehouses and BI tools. Guide the development of scalable and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines data lakes and analytics environments while ensuring performance reliability security and cost optimization. Support the adoption of selfservice analytics capabilities while maintaining appropriate enterprise governance.
Data Governance & Information Management
Partner closely with business and IT stakeholders to define and implement enterprise data governance frameworks. Establish standards and approaches for data quality metadata management master and reference data and data lifecycle management. Support data cataloging lineage and stewardship initiatives while ensuring compliance with regulatory security and privacy requirements relevant to utilities.
Integration & Systems Architecture
Design and document enterprise data flows across key operational systems such as AMI CIS ERP CMMS SCADA and GIS. Promote consistent integration patterns and interoperability across vendor and inhouse solutions. Lead architectural reviews and provide recommendations for new systems enhancements and thirdparty technology platforms.
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership program managers and business stakeholders by translating complex technical concepts into clear actionable guidance. Mentor solution architects and technical teams promoting best practices in enterprise architecture. Act as a subject matter expert to support client engagements pursuits and proposal development in enterprise data and analytics.
Key Attributes
The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a pragmatic implementation-focused mindset. Strong communication skills with the capability of influencing at executive and technical levels will be important. The candidate will need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across organizations. You will need to have a passion for enabling data-driven decision-making in mission-critical utility environments. We will also need this candidate to mentor develop and manage technical teams.
Qualifications & Experience
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems or related field
- 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture data architecture or analytics architecture roles
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise data and analytics platforms
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF UAF.
- Strong understanding of data modeling data integration analytics and BI architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern data ecosystems (Azure preferred)
- Proven ability to work across business and technical teams in complex multistakeholder environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the water wastewater or utility sector including familiarity with utility operational systems including SCADA AMI asset management customer systems or regulatory reporting.
- Experience establishing or leading enterprise data governance programs.
- Knowledge of utility operational systems and data domains.
- Experience supporting large multiyear enterprise transformation programs.
- Professional certifications (e.g. Azure data architecture or analytics certifications).
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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 which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. 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 and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $122760 - $235290. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more