Enterprise Engineering Platforms Leader - Strategy & Execution

About the role

The Enterprise Engineering Platforms Leader - Strategy & Execution plays a pivotal role in defining and delivering the enterprise vision, roadmap, and operational excellence for Black & Veatch’s engineering systems and desktop application ecosystem. This role is responsible for ensuring all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner, driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities as needed.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all technology maintenance and end-user support needs for deployed enterprise engineering systems are resolved in a timely manner; driving continuous improvement and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective Action opportunities as needed.
• Define and maintain application & technology roadmaps which ensure deployed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with vendor lifecycles & the overall BV portfolio strategy.
• Partner with business, technical, and software/service providers to translate business & technology needs into potential solutions with costs/benefits analysis, achievable project timelines, and BV-standard deployment architectures.
• Manage relationships with key software providers such as Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon, AVEVA, Esri, and more to achieve BV business outcomes through vendor solutions and services.
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for executing work within the portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of work in alignment with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Provide oversight to IT service providers to ensure engineering systems are continuously available, performant, and supported per business needs, IT policies, and contracted KPIs/SLAs.
• Collaborate with business/discipline stakeholders to package and deploy application updates to BV workstations which keep engineering client applications current and free of defects or vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate with business owners, software providers, and BV software procurement teams to ensure applications are continuously rationalized, licenses are right-sized, and contracts renewed.
• Lead application virtualization strategy for engineering applications deployed in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• U.S. citizen capable of being exposed to data classified as CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information)

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years progressive experience in IT, engineering and construction practices, and engineering applications including leading large-scale projects and initiatives in a complex organization
• Experience managing the application lifecycle for desktop, cloud, and hosted engineering solutions from key software providers: Autodesk, Bentley, Esri, Hexagon, AVEVA, etc.
• Experience in the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industry
• Background in designing, building and maintaining enterprise design and modeling environments
• Experience with mapping a solution’s recommended deployment application architecture into high-level architectures which align with enterprise standards

Desired Non-Technical Competencies

• Client focus and proven ability to solve business problems through the appropriate application of technology
• Understanding of cross-disciplinary AEC workflows and project execution in CAD/CAE technologies
• Capability to multi-task and effectively prioritize within a multi-tasking environment
• Able to prioritize tasks independently and deliver to expectations as agreed with stakeholder/requester
• Excellent verbal, writing and presentation skills targeted to all levels of leadership
• Experience leading small technical teams in an operational environment

Desired Technical Competencies

• Understanding of and experience with the software development lifecycle and methodologies
• Enterprise data and systems integration experience
• Software and systems architecture design, cloud services, and hosting experience
• Experience managing third party SaaS and application hosting platforms
• Understanding of application packaging and deployment technologies and practices via SCCM
• Experience with ServiceNow reporting/ ITIL service management framework
• Experience manipulating large Excel datasets via advanced formulas