Digital Integration Solutions Discipline Leader

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Digital Integration Solutions Discipline Lead to drive innovative system integration strategies across diverse sectors, including airports, ports, rail, and transit systems. This role involves designing and implementing comprehensive integration strategies, developing robust system testing and validation plans to ensure seamless operation of key systems such as building management, life safety, security, lighting, power substations, ventilation, people movers, and water and wastewater management. The Discipline Lead will proactively address integration challenges, support commissioning efforts, identify bottlenecks, and recommend solutions to mitigate risks. Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors is essential to ensure compatibility, secure integration, and compliance with industry standards and regulations. The candidate will engage closely with testing and commissioning teams, interface with systems design teams, monitor design progress, and coordinate procurement, installation, and testing activities. Additionally, the role will support transit-related pursuits, contribute to systems integration initiatives, and build a team to drive revenue and deliver services across Mobility and other Global Business Areas.

Role accountabilities:

The main responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to, employing systems engineering processes to deliver successful project outcomes, which encompass requirements management, interface management, validation and verification, configuration management, and progressive assurance. The role involves leading teams responsible for the design, procurement, installation, integration, configuration, testing, and commissioning of rail rapid transit systems. Additionally, it requires overseeing the integration and interface of these systems with civil structures, elevated guideways, tunnels, stations, OCS, lighting, communications, power stations, O&M facilities, and existing rail rapid transit systems in revenue operation. Ensuring compliance with system lifecycle processes as defined in ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 is critical, and the position demands high competency in engineering, people management, and client relationship management skills.

The role involves making proposals for improvements or adjustments to project processes or software and consulting with relevant project or owner’s team members to optimize delivery outcomes swiftly. A thorough understanding of relevant provincial, national, and international codes, standards, and regulations is essential. Operating with little supervision, the role involves developing a team and collaborating with vendors, contractors, owner’s engineers, or project managers to ensure system integration through a systematic methodology to validate interfaces of each system and subsystem for safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable operation. Developing critical review methodologies to ensure each subsystem functions correctly and consistently within the larger system is necessary, as is reviewing QA/QC of each system and subsystem to validate compliance with design specifications and quality requirements.

Furthermore, the role involves informing and advising involved parties about non-conformances and mitigation options, engaging in Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and providing guidance and training for project teams throughout the project lifecycle, including design, construction, and operations startup stages. Effective resource organization and usage are vital to completing tasks while considering cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact. The role also provides advisory services to clients, inputs for integration effort budgets, and schedule estimates to oversee technical resources for projects of various sizes. Additionally, the position includes performing other duties as directed by your manager or Arcadis, and ensuring familiarity and compliance with Health and Safety regulations, guidelines, and stewardship commitments.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Completion of a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent education, training, and experience
• Minimum 15 years of experience leading systems integration teams in the transportation, airports, ports, marine, and rail industries
• Direct working knowledge of rail systems, including trackwork, signaling, automatic train controls, communications, and propulsion power supply systems
• Professional registration as an Engineer or the ability to obtain it quickly
• Experience with standards such as AREMA, ISO, CENELEC, MIL-STD, and IEEE
• Understanding of Private Public Partnership (P3) and other contractual structures for rail and transit infrastructure projects
• Strong client support and engagement skills across multiple sectors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on building high-performance teams and championing diversity and inclusion
• Ability to manage the design and implementation of information systems, including workflow processes and compliance with industry standards like ISO19650
• Must be a fast learner and result-oriented, capable of navigating and executing tasks in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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.