Digital Project Controls and Systems Lead

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:

The Digital Project Controls and Systems Lead is responsible for enabling digital project and programme controls, with a focus on data, systems, assurance, and governance. The role provides strategic oversight of project controls systems, data flows, and reporting architecture to ensure information is accurate, governed, and trusted for decision‑making. The position leads the maturity of processes, embeds digital ways of working, manages complex workstreams, and acts as a senior client interface across digital project controls and systems.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead delivery of digital project controls solutions across complex projects or programmes.
• Act as the senior authority on project controls systems, data architecture, and reporting frameworks.
• Manage project controls systems and databases, ensuring effective data pipelines across cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance data.
• Establish and embed data assurance and governance frameworks, ensuring information is accurate, complete, and auditable.
• Champion business process automation and digital tools to improve efficiency, data quality, and reporting.
• Lead initiatives to improve maturity, standardisation, and continuous improvement across project controls processes.
• Engage stakeholders at all levels to embed new digital ways of working and support change adoption.
• Act as the primary client interface for systems, data assurance, and performance reporting, reviewing outputs before submission.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Strong experience in project or programme controls, including cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance reporting.
• Experience across all stages of the project or programme lifecycle, from mobilisation through to benefits realisation.
• Qualifications aligned to project controls, planning, and/or risk management (e.g., MSP, APM certifications, Oracle P6, risk management accreditation).
• Demonstrated knowledge of data quality, assurance, and governance principles.
• Experience applying digital tools and automation to improve processes and reporting.
• Proven experience managing project controls systems and datasets.
• Ability to influence and engage stakeholders across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Desirable experience in enterprise reporting platforms, integrated controls systems, or digital transformation in major infrastructure programmes.

Why Arcadis?

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.