As a Principal Geospatial Consultant with WSP, you'll support multi-disciplinary projects within the Geospatial team as part of the Transformation & Digital Insights service line, with a particular focus on supporting complex infrastructure and land projects. Reporting to an Associate / Associate Director and collaborating with GIS, Geospatial, Data Science Data Engineering, AI and Technical Specialist teams, you'll help the team grow both personally and technically to maintain top-tier client service.
As a Principal Geospatial Consultant specialising in GeoAI and Spatial Intelligence, you will sit at the intersection of GIS engineering and applied artificial intelligence—designing, building, and deploying advanced geospatial solutions across infrastructure, utilities, land and property, water, and environmental sectors.
This is a hands-on technical role. You will develop production-grade Python workflows, design and optimise spatial data pipelines, and integrate AI and machine learning frameworks into GIS environments to deliver scalable, data-driven insights. You will act as a subject matter expert for both internal teams and clients, translating emerging GeoAI capabilities into practical, real-world applications.
You will play a key role in shaping our GeoAI approach within the practice—defining methodologies, driving innovation, and embedding automation and intelligence across project delivery. Alongside this, you will mentor and support junior colleagues, fostering technical excellence and helping to grow our geospatial capability in line with market demand.
Join WSP at a time of growth and transformation, where you will play a key role in delivering geospatial solutions across major infrastructure schemes, supporting projects across sectors such as land management, property and planning, energy and transportation.
Strong technical skills in Esri platforms, scripting (preferably Python), FME, SQL, data management, and data science workflows along with a proactive, resilient mindset and exceptional problem-solving abilities are required. The ideal candidate will have a customer focused mindset to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop GeoAI solutions — including object detection, feature extraction, change detection, and predictive spatial modelling — using both Esri tools and open-source AI frameworks.
- Write production-grade Python toolboxes, automation scripts, and spatial data pipelines for ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, and SDE environments.
- Integrate deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch or TensorFlow) and ML libraries (such as scikit-learn or Hugging Face) into geospatial workflows to solve client-specific problems at scale.
- Lead technical delivery on GeoAI project workstreams across utilities network analysis, land ownership and registry data, and water / environmental constraint modelling.
- Collaborating with project managers and sector leads to scope, estimate, and quality-assure GIS and GeoAI deliverables.
- Provide technical assurance and peer review of GeoAI and GIS outputs to ensure quality, robustness, and compliance with agreed standards.
- Produce clear technical documentation and methodology reports, and present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor and support junior GIS analysts and developers, reviewing code and promoting best practices in spatial data science.
- Stay current with Esri platform releases, emerging GeoAI tools, and relevant academic or industry research, contributing to internal capability development.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
- Strong professional experience in GIS, with a clear focus on Python development and automation.
- Strong Python skills: ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python, geopandas, shapely, rasterio, GDAL.
- Practical experience applying AI/ML to geospatial problems (e.g. object detection, image classification, feature extraction, or spatial prediction).
- Working knowledge of at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
- Experience with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, and File or SDE geodatabases.
- Ability to communicate technical outputs clearly to non-GIS audiences.
- Degree (BSc or MSc) in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline.
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