Principal Digital Solutions Technologist (part-time)

About the role

HNTB is expanding its AI enablement team. We're looking for a Principal Technologist to build and run the infrastructure that lets our engineering and business teams use AI at scale. You'll design, deploy, and secure the platforms behind our AI initiatives. These include cloud-based compute, model hosting, data pipelines, and integrations with our existing engineering technology ecosystem. You'll work closely with project teams, IT, security, and vendors to turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, governed tools that improve how we deliver transportation and infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Leads service improvement initiatives and activities to increase customer satisfaction, including developing strategic plans and influencing virtual teams to drive execution of initiatives.
• Works with IT solutions, architecture, utility, and cloud services.
• Acts as technical lead for enterprise data management platform implementation for CRM redesign.
• Manages and creates user accounts, directory access, and server permissions.
• Manages in-house services related to the internet.
• Trains and educates customers on how to use certain software and hardware as requested.
• Performs development and architecture for software, database, third-party integration, internationalization, and infrastructure.
• Sponsors roadmap, physical of failures correlation between system hardware, firmware and software, network topology infrastructure, reliability simulation at system and network level.
• Contributes in the development of marketing and collateral material relating to technology services or products.
• Leads business development and planning efforts, including calculation of cost, risk, and scope, and supports local offices in preparation of responses to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs by providing expertise on specialized technologies and/or practices.
• Provides single point of contact for technology projects and products and/or leads specific technical or functional portions of a project.
• Determines scope of work and objectives; estimates project costs and prepares proposals and contracts.
• Actively manages project budget, schedule, communications, and documentation.
• Coordinates work efforts; reviews work performed, and communicates regularly with department leadership on project progress.
• Applies expert business skills and consulting methodologies to collect and analyze data to determine the applicability, functionality, and viability of new technologies.
• Advocates for internal and external clients by establishing user groups and acting as a liaison between users and the technology office.
• Supports the identification of internal resources and external contractors to meet project requirements.
• Researches new and emerging technologies and assesses feasibility applications to current and future business needs.
• Analyzes business unit activities and trends and compares analyses against service standards and best practices.
• Presents findings to business unit leadership and identifies and implements strategies that will address tactical and strategic goals.
• Works with clients and technology office staff to identify, analyze, design, develop, and implement fully integrated solutions of moderate to high complexity that support HNTB's products, services, and/or business processes.
• Develops detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify compute programs or systems.
• Reviews use cases and other technical documents with technology office project staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in technical planning.
• Defines, develops, and implements quality assurance practices and end user test plans.
• Ensures process, conduct, and documentation accurately reflects the current status of changes and outstanding issues so that business requirements reflect application features and functions.
• Identifies training and development requirements of user groups and provides support when required by designing and developing training initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 13 years of relevant experience, or
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 12 years of relevant experience, or
• In lieu of education, 17 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Hands-on experience setting up and managing AI/ML infrastructure, such as cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), GPU/compute environments, containerization, and MLOps tooling.
• Experience deploying and integrating large language models and AI services, including APIs, vector databases, and data pipelines.
• A solid grasp of security, governance, and responsible-AI practices in an enterprise setting.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to train and coach non-technical users on new tools.
• Experience evaluating vendors and emerging technologies, and making recommendations to leadership.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Business skills, organizational skills, and analytical skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Master