Senior Data & Infrastructure Consultant; Digital Advisory

Overview

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role… Join our growing Digital team and help shape modern, data‑driven platforms across the built environment. As a Senior Data & Digital Platform Engineer, you’ll blend hands‑on data engineering with platform‑level thinking, from architecture and governance to high‑level design and cross‑programme alignment.

You’ll work closely with our Lead Data Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable Azure data platforms. One day you may turn an outline architecture into a practical implementation plan; the next you’ll be building ingestion and modelling layers, defining data standards, or helping multiple programmes align to a shared blueprint.

If you enjoy translating strong architecture into reliable, production‑ready solutions and you’re motivated by shaping how data is designed, governed and used across sectors this role is for you.

You’ll work on impactful projects in transport, energy, water, local government, healthcare and more, with the development opportunities, support and professional growth you’d expect from a collaborative and inclusive WSP team.

• Contribute to platform and data architecture — covering system context, integration patterns, data domain modelling, security, and operational non‑functional requirements.
• Produce high level designs (HLDs) and option assessments that balance cost, capability, time to value and risk.
• Translate HLDs into implementable designs and lead technical decision making through delivery.

• Define and enforce data standards, metadata, lineage and quality controls that scale across programmes.
• Establish governance processes (design reviews, approvals, change control) and embed them with delivery teams.
• Partner with product/PMO to align data strategy with business outcomes (analytics, regulatory, and operational needs).

• Identify reusable patterns and drive consistency across parallel projects.
• Facilitate architecture forums, write playbooks/patterns, and coach teams so that architecture intent survives delivery.
• Influence roadmaps—highlighting dependencies, risks and opportunities across the portfolio.

• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT on Azure (e.g., ADF, Databricks/PySpark or equivalent), applying CI/CD and IaC principles.
• Model data for analytics (star schemas/Dimensional modelling) and operational data stores; optimise Azure SQL/Synapse performance.
• Enable and govern Power BI models and paginated reporting: semantic models, DAX optimisation, refresh and workspace governance.

• Senior level experience designing and delivering Azure data platforms (e.g., Data Lake/Synapse/ADF/Databricks/Azure SQL, networking, identity, monitoring).
• Strong SQL and data modelling; proven track record building production grade pipelines and data products.
• Demonstrable contribution to HLDs, architecture patterns, governance frameworks and cross team standards.
• Solid grasp of security, privacy, cost management and observability for data platforms.
• Excellent communication—able to work directly with clients, PMs, and multi disciplinary teams, turning needs into clear designs and backlog items.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close‑knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

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