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The Opportunity
The individual leads the team responsible for the technology infrastructure required for our client facing platforms and products. The role ensures that the platforms, environments, and supporting services behind these products are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with the firm’s digital strategy.
Operating at the intersection of technology delivery and business strategy, the role sets the direction for cloud infrastructure and product development, manages relationships with technology vendors, and partners closely with client-facing digital leadership to ensure infrastructure decisions advance the value delivered to clients. The role carries global accountability and leads a multidisciplinary team across product development and platform operations.
In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, the individual champions agility and client responsiveness, ensuring that products and platforms can adapt quickly to shifting client needs, emerging tools, and new delivery models. A key aspect of the role is the enablement of artificial intelligence within WSP’s client-facing solutions - embedding AI capabilities responsibly and at scale to enhance the value, insight, and experience these solutions deliver to clients.
Where Your Ideas Matter – If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this role offers the chance to work on projects that push boundaries and impact communities worldwide. Be part of a team that values your ideas, expertise, and growth.
Your Impact
Own the strategy, architecture, and operation of the global cloud infrastructure supporting client-facing digital applications.
Ensure infrastructure is secure, scalable, highly available, cost-effective, and capable of supporting global delivery requirements.
Establish standards for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, performance, and continuous improvement across regions.
Oversee the development and lifecycle management of client-facing digital products and the platforms that support them.
Define and ensure governance standards, development practices, and quality assurance across the team.
Ensure development efforts are coordinated with platform capabilities and aligned to delivery timelines.
Contribute to and execute the global digital product and platform strategy in alignment with the firm’s broader digital agenda.
Develop technology roadmaps that anticipate future client needs, emerging technologies, and capacity requirements.
Translate business and client-facing strategy into platform investment decisions.
Build adaptable, modular capabilities that allow WSP to respond rapidly to changing client needs and a fast-evolving technology landscape, accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies in client-facing solutions.
Ensure platforms and products meet security, data protection, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
Establish governance practices for infrastructure change, resilience, and business continuity.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global team spanning infrastructure, development, and platform operations.
Foster collaboration across regions, business lines, and technical disciplines. Work closely with IT leadership to maintain alignment and maximize application of resources and skills
The skills that set you apart
Substantial leadership experience in digital infrastructure, cloud platforms, and application development, ideally within a global organization.
Proven track record of delivering and operating infrastructure for client-facing or commercial digital products at scale.
Experience managing technology vendors and infrastructure service providers, including contract and performance oversight.
Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and translate it into actionable, measurable plans.
Experience leading distributed, multidisciplinary technical teams across regions.
Strong understanding of security, data protection, and governance requirements for global digital platforms.
Demonstrated ability to operate with agility and responsiveness in a rapidly evolving technology landscape, balancing speed of delivery with resilience and control.
Why choose WSP?
We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.
- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026
- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we’ll help you tailor your role to match your ambition - because your growth drives ours.
- Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.
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Compensation
Base salary starting at $208 229
Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.
Make Your Mark with WSP
If you're driven by purpose and impact, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us.
At
WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.
It’s why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what’s possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.
As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.
At
WSP, you’ll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.
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Please Note:
Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here.
Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).
WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details here. 