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This Opportunity

Provide regional and/or multi-sector leadership to ensure data science subject matter, technical deliverables, projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for SME innovation and administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal regulations, and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization. Database management /Database operations (SQL + NoSQL), software developer with geoanalytics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and GIS skills. Background in transportation planning, multimodal transportation planning. Experience in data analysis, applying databases, programming knowledge to efficiently process massive datasets. Deep experience with ‘big data’, including managing data reporting for over 200 million toll trips for transportation, roadway, tollway, IoT, V2X, floating car and cell phone Mobile Location Based datasets, Ability to applying and analyze a 23 million + record datasets of electronic transit fare card transactions to develop an origin-destination matrices for transit/transportation models, through using multiple database management (PostgreSQL, SQL, Hadoop, MySQL, and Elasticsearch) platforms. Must be fluent in Python, SQL, HTML5/CSS, R-Shiny, Leaflet, ArcGIS, JavaScript, Java EE, .net, Ruby on Rails, with hands on experience in Unix/Linux system administration and operating in High-Availability and Compute Cluster environments.

Your Impact

+ Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of the data science discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization.

+ Lead the most complex and largest scale data science projects within the organization, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.

+ Provide expert technical assistance on various environmental, advisory, building, transportation, infrastructure, and construction issues relating to data science, research, and logistics.

+ Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of data science work for current and potential building, infrastructure, and other market sector work within a geography specifically for the large projects within the area.

+ Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.

+ Drive the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Data Science work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, strategic consulting, advisory services, and program/construction management).

+ Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.

+ Oversee internal vision and mission for the data science discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.

+ Lead data science discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.

+ Serve as the data science discipline’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community stakeholders.

+ Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the data science discipline.

+ Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound conclusions.

+ Provide discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.

+ Provides performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.

+ Develop high-level business contacts and a client base for providing high level data science services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.

+ Remain current in latest data science techniques and practices.

+ Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.

+ Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

+ Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Data Analysis, Accounting, Finance or related field

+ 15+ years of relevant post education experience in data science/analysis.

+ Professional Certifications such as CCA, MCSE, Certified Analytics Professional. **Updated Language for all Postings including Pay Transparency States (NY, CO, WA State, CA)**

+ WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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): $165,100-$195,410

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.

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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.

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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.