Senior Manager, Digital Delivery and Innovation

Client Engagement & Advisory

Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders internal and external to GISI operating companies.
Lead discovery activities—including interviews, workshops, and field assessments—that surface project delivery, coordination, data, and workflow challenges.
Identify cross-company and cross-sector patterns related to digital delivery, model-based workflows, automation, and data integration.
Assess and improve project delivery workflows using technology, while balancing standardization with project realities.

Solution Design & Innovation Delivery

Lead strategy and development of innovation concepts, digital transformation pathways, and solution requirements, translating business needs into actionable solutions.
Evaluate and advise on technology acquisition and delivery pathways, shaping the organization’s innovation and digital transformation roadmap and investment priorities.
Evaluate and devise strategies that account for people, process, technology, and governance components for each engagement.
Conceptualize and deliver proofs of concept, prototypes, and pilot implementations, including model-driven, automation-enabled, or analytics-based solutions.

Program Management & Execution

Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for multi-phase digital delivery and innovation programs across projects engagements, coordinating workstreams across GISI operating companies, technical teams and vendors.
Partner with OPCO and business stakeholders to define and develop standards for program controls and reporting.
Develop and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
Ensure alignment between technical delivery, business objectives, and client expectations.
Identify risks, issues, and mitigation strategies, escalating complex challenges appropriately.
Establish mechanisms to ensure quality and consistency in deliverables and client communications.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

Lead production of client-ready deliverables, including solution architectures, roadmaps, assessments, business cases, and implementation plans.
Define and track KPIs related to engineering efficiency, delivery quality, and adoption of digital tools.
Capture lessons learned and feed insights into GISI Ignite’s innovation roadmap.
Represent GISI Ignite in client briefings, industry forums, webinars, and thought leadership.
Mentor technical contributors and support the development of best practices across Ignite.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AEC delivery, engineering, construction program management, or technology strategy and delivery in a AEC environment.
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.
• Deep understanding of AEC delivery workflows such as PMCM practices and BIM/VDC/model-based delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated knowledge in emerging technologies and innovation methodologies including familiarity with AI, automation, and data integration platforms.
• Prominent experience in cultivating relationships and serving as a trusted advisor to internal and external clients, providing recommendations and solutions that produce business value.
• Proven comfort leading projects across diverse industries and ability to engage with stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds.
• Systems-thinking mindset, capable of integrating people, process, technology, and governance.
• Curiosity and initiative to continuously explore emerging tools and methods in digital engineering.
• Demonstrated track record of solving complex, enterprise-level challenges through innovative, systems-based approaches. Leads engagements fluidly between strategic framing and hands-on delivery, providing clarity, structure, and direction to teams and clients.
• Familiarity with a wide range of tools for BIM, VDC, PMIS and schedule controls.
• Automation, scripting, or software development applied to engineering workflows.
• AI, generative design, or data-driven decision support in AEC contexts.
• Agile delivery, design thinking, or change management methodologies.
• Data visualization and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel, analytics dashboards).
• Software prototyping tools (Figma, PowerApps, Cursor/Windsurf, Miro, or similar).

Pay

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000. The offered salary will be based on the applicants qualifications, education, experience and work location.

About Us

Hill International, with more than 4,300+ professionals in over 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as one of the largest program management firms in the world. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com . Hill is exclusively a program, project, and construction management provider, meaning we have one focus as a company: protecting client interests. Free of any potential conflicts, our entire business is geared towards helping clients achieve their desired outcomes. We are dedicated to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapt to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions to meet those needs. Hill is a GISI Consulting Group company, part of the Global Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (GISI) family of companies. Learn more about GISI Consulting Group at www.gisiconsulting.com . Hill International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled