Digital Technology Consultant; environmental engineering

Position: Digital Technology Consultant (environmental engineering)
Brown and Caldwell (BC), a leading environmental engineering firm, is currently seeking a Digital Technology Consultant to serve as a task lead supporting our Digital Solutions team.

The Digital Technology Consulting role is responsible for developing digital technology strategies, evaluating and implementing technology solutions, and helping water and wastewater clients advance their digital objectives. This includes supporting initiatives related to data management, business intelligence and dashboarding, enterprise reporting, AI enabled solutions, system integration, and digital transformation efforts. This role will lead tasks assessing the state of clients’ data environments, digital systems, reporting capabilities, and related business processes to identify opportunities for improvements and future-state requirements.

This role works closely with clients to develop technology roadmaps, evaluate and select solutions, establish supporting business processes, and guide implementation efforts through deployment and adoption. Responsibilities include leading the development of advanced BI reports and dashboards, recommending optimizations for enterprise applications, and collaborating with technical staff in the design and implementation of data integration and analytics solutions. This role will apply recognized data management and governance practices, including DAMA-DMBOK principles, to assess data capabilities, define governance approaches, improve data quality and accessibility, and develop practical roadmaps that maximize the business value of client data assets.

Work is performed independently with limited supervision and occasional guidance for complex or strategic issues. The role will also support and lead engagement with Clients to develop concepts into projects, support prepositioning meetings with clients ahead of RFP release, development of RFP responses and support creating scopes of work and fee estimates.

The selected candidate may be located in either Pacific or Mountain time zones although our ideal candidate will be located near one of our Northern California offices such as Walnut Creek, San Francisco, San Jose or Sacramento. Responsibilities Communicate the technology planning approach and frameworks to clients.

Lead the execution of services for enterprise technology planning, selection/evaluation/implementation of information systems to support client’s business processes and integrating technologies to help clients make the best use of their data, systems, and tools.

Lead teams to identify, design and implement innovative digital solutions helping clients align technology initiatives with business goals.

Responsible for all aspects of small to mid-size projects with low degree of technical complexity, involving a small project staff

Ensure data governance of digital solutions created are in compliance with BC technical standards and cybersecurity policies.

Lead the design, development, and implementation of data management initiatives, dashboarding, AI embedded tools, reporting and general digital transformation efforts.

Provide strategic insights through data analysis.

Facilitate client discussions and make presentations on the status and future initiatives regarding digital technology plans and usage.

Differentiate between client needs for basic data integration tasks and the development of more complex data engineering pipelines and lead digital solutions technical staff in implementing the identified solutions.

Provide training and support to less experienced colleagues for their development and understanding of digital technology consulting.

Support business development activities and lead development of scopes, schedules, and budgets.

Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments, including PM-related duties, based on evolving needs.

Mentorship May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Skills and Competencies Advanced knowledge of enterprise applications used in the water/wastewater engineering sector (CMMS, GIS, SCADA, LIMS and Data Technologies) and designing digital solutions to use their data for analysis and business intelligence visualization.

Expertise in data management and data governance frameworks and policies.

Strong ability in identifying and designing digital solutions that integrate business IT system data with time-series datasets from sensors and SCADA…