Information Management & Governance Lead
Arcadis
Date: 1 day ago
City: Vancouver, British Columbia
Contract type: Full time
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking an Information Management & Governance Lead to spearhead and grow our Information Management and Governance practice within Mobility Canada. This role entails a dual focus: delivering top-tier digital governance solutions and cultivating new business opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategic growth, revenue generation, client development (both internal and external), and driving innovation across enterprise data, compliance, and lifecycle information, including asset management. Key responsibilities include establishing an operational center of excellence for Mobility Information Management and Governance, where you will develop frameworks, reusable solutions, and training programs to enhance delivery, compliance, and operational efficiency. You will also be tasked with training and creating transparency around utilization, billability, PMIS, enabling project visibility for gross margin targets, and mentoring multidisciplinary teams to build robust and efficient workflows. Additionally, the position requires the adoption of standardized business management capabilities for Work in Progress (WIP). Furthermore, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining ecosystem partnerships with platform vendors and clients, shaping go-to-market strategies, leading change management, and ensuring Arcadis remains at the forefront of data-driven capital delivery and digital advisory.
Role accountabilities:
As the leader of the Mobility Information Management & Governance practice across Canada, you will be tasked with defining core offerings, delivery frameworks, and creating reusable digital accelerators. This role involves supporting the Advisory business development strategy by identifying, pursuing, and securing new external opportunities, while also growing the internal pipeline through cross-selling and account collaboration. You will be at the forefront of leading proposals, formulating bid strategies, and engaging with clients to align with digital transformation mandates in the infrastructure, transit, water, and environmental sectors. In addition, you will drive partner relationships with industry leaders such as Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft, Trimble, and Esri to co-develop solutions and maximize platform value for our clients.
Your responsibilities will include defining and implementing enterprise data governance models, focusing on stewardship, data lineage, metadata management, and privacy compliance in accordance with PIPEDA and ISO 19650 standards. You will be accountable for the revenue, profitability, and billability across assigned digital and data resources, ensuring optimal team utilization and assignments to achieve gross margin targets. Additionally, you will lead internal and external training sessions, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and thought leadership activities to enhance data and digital maturity within client organizations. You will guide internal teams and clients through change management processes, embedding new data standards, automated workflows, reporting models, and digital delivery governance.
Serving as a strategic advisor, you will address data-related compliance, analytics enablement, and AI/ML-driven automation, representing Arcadis at client forums, conferences, and industry events to elevate our digital brand and data solutions visibility. Collaboration with key stakeholders is essential to ensure seamless data workflow integration across planning, design, construction, and asset operations. You will also be responsible for developing KPIs and reporting dashboards to provide leaders with insights into practice health, project performance, and continuous improvement. Furthermore, you will support hiring, mentoring, onboarding, and upskilling team members to meet future talent needs and project demands, while continuously monitoring market trends, digital regulations, and innovation drivers to evolve practice offerings.
Qualifications & Experience:
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $178,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking an Information Management & Governance Lead to spearhead and grow our Information Management and Governance practice within Mobility Canada. This role entails a dual focus: delivering top-tier digital governance solutions and cultivating new business opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategic growth, revenue generation, client development (both internal and external), and driving innovation across enterprise data, compliance, and lifecycle information, including asset management. Key responsibilities include establishing an operational center of excellence for Mobility Information Management and Governance, where you will develop frameworks, reusable solutions, and training programs to enhance delivery, compliance, and operational efficiency. You will also be tasked with training and creating transparency around utilization, billability, PMIS, enabling project visibility for gross margin targets, and mentoring multidisciplinary teams to build robust and efficient workflows. Additionally, the position requires the adoption of standardized business management capabilities for Work in Progress (WIP). Furthermore, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining ecosystem partnerships with platform vendors and clients, shaping go-to-market strategies, leading change management, and ensuring Arcadis remains at the forefront of data-driven capital delivery and digital advisory.
Role accountabilities:
As the leader of the Mobility Information Management & Governance practice across Canada, you will be tasked with defining core offerings, delivery frameworks, and creating reusable digital accelerators. This role involves supporting the Advisory business development strategy by identifying, pursuing, and securing new external opportunities, while also growing the internal pipeline through cross-selling and account collaboration. You will be at the forefront of leading proposals, formulating bid strategies, and engaging with clients to align with digital transformation mandates in the infrastructure, transit, water, and environmental sectors. In addition, you will drive partner relationships with industry leaders such as Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft, Trimble, and Esri to co-develop solutions and maximize platform value for our clients.
Your responsibilities will include defining and implementing enterprise data governance models, focusing on stewardship, data lineage, metadata management, and privacy compliance in accordance with PIPEDA and ISO 19650 standards. You will be accountable for the revenue, profitability, and billability across assigned digital and data resources, ensuring optimal team utilization and assignments to achieve gross margin targets. Additionally, you will lead internal and external training sessions, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and thought leadership activities to enhance data and digital maturity within client organizations. You will guide internal teams and clients through change management processes, embedding new data standards, automated workflows, reporting models, and digital delivery governance.
Serving as a strategic advisor, you will address data-related compliance, analytics enablement, and AI/ML-driven automation, representing Arcadis at client forums, conferences, and industry events to elevate our digital brand and data solutions visibility. Collaboration with key stakeholders is essential to ensure seamless data workflow integration across planning, design, construction, and asset operations. You will also be responsible for developing KPIs and reporting dashboards to provide leaders with insights into practice health, project performance, and continuous improvement. Furthermore, you will support hiring, mentoring, onboarding, and upskilling team members to meet future talent needs and project demands, while continuously monitoring market trends, digital regulations, and innovation drivers to evolve practice offerings.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Over 12 years of experience in data governance, digital delivery, or enterprise information management, including 5+ years in leadership or business development roles
- Expertise in delivering data governance solutions for infrastructure, AEC, utilities, or large capital programs
- Proven track record in managing revenue, team utilization, gross margin, and operational performance
- Strong business development and client relationship management skills across both public and private sectors
- In-depth knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, PIPEDA), DMBOK, ISO 19650, and FAIR data principles
- Proficient in tools like Informatica, Microsoft Purview, and Power BI
- Familiarity with PMIS, CDEs, BIM data structures, and asset lifecycle data management
- Skilled in Agile delivery, change management, and conducting digital maturity assessments
- Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and organizational planning abilities
- Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring capabilities, along with a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $178,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
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