Job Description
Job Overview
APTIM is seeking an innovative technology professional that specializes in the development and application of Reality Capture solutions such as AR/VR, 3D Laser Scanning, Drone Data Collection, and the application of the Digital Twin to join our Information Technology Team. This strategic role is needed to explore, create and respond to opportunities to weave the value of virtual reality, and other innovative technologies that can be used to automate and optimize its use, into our company technology roadmap developing value propositions for its use as it aligns with each of APTIM's service line technology toolkits and optimizes and differentiates APTIM's project delivery for our Clients.
The Reality Capture Technical Architect is responsible for helping to drive and support deep technology conversations involving the use of this technology with our service line leads and strategists, capture teams, project managers and other internal customers as well as their Clients. This key resource will help these internal and external customers to identify and assess their current objectives, execution workflows and all other related requirements with a focus on identifying, designing and implementing reality capture solutions to drive innovative approaches to address imminent challenges, work more safely and improve quality and timeliness of delivery. This person will assist in the development and implementation of an APTIM technology roadmap that includes reality capture technology and ensures the company has the technical and operational infrastructure in place to successfully implement and address the identified customer business challenges that technology can address. This person will also have a focus in areas such as cyber security, data and system integration, and engineering systems.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
- Demonstrate a deep knowledge of all current and emerging Reality Capture technology tools representing their use as an APTIM best practice where applicable.
- Translate business requirements into well-architected, compliant and documented solutions that best leverage the reality capture technology and APTIM's service line toolkits into successful alternative technology approaches working with the business to integrate into their procedures and best practices so that they are accessible and operational and with IT to ensure compliance and sustainability.
- Actively participate in opportunity & account strategy sessions to ensure their technical domain expertise is helping to solve real customer challenges.
- Lead and support opportunities to integrate reality capture technologies, and even more importantly the data rendered, into comprehensive, turnkey, technology solutions and information management platforms such as Virtual Compliance Assessments, Construction Inspection and Management, and use of the Digital Twin for O&M and Facility Management.
- Lead technical presentations and demonstrations to support internal technology awareness, project team implementations, capture strategies and externally to promote APTIM's innovative use of technology within the industry.
- Demonstrate thought leadership by publishing white papers, preparing social media releases, participating in panel discussions and presenting at technology and related industry conferences.
- Develop and lead an APTIM Reality Capture Community of Practice team that will serve as the core for how APTIM effectively uses this technology and blends that use into our day to day project delivery as best practice maintaining the requirements and governance necessary for compliant use.
- Build exceptional relationships with strategic technology partners to enhance our technology options, use and delivery while also creating a source of expertise that can be used to augment and support our own resources for execution and delivery when needed.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and recognize drive opportunities for new and emerging technologies
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering or a similar field.
- 15+ years of successful Reality Capture experience
- Working knowledge of Engineering Systems and IT including Cyber Security
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Strong technology leadership and change management skills
- Outstanding presentation, communication, and facilitation skills
- Self-starter with proven ability to successfully kick-start new initiatives and to drive complex issues through analysis and resolution
- Excellent customer-facing written and oral communications skills
- Business process modeling
- Database fundamentals
- Demonstrated experience working across diverse markets and regions
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with a diverse program and project management, engineering and scientific staff
- Demonstrated creative experience, specifically being able to creatively communicate and assist our engineers and scientists with the capture and visualization of diverse products, understand and address diverse market audiences, etc., when developing Virtual Reality products.
Why Join APTIM
It is an exciting time to be at APTIM! We have a long history of developing lasting client relationships and have a strong internal culture of collaboration, inclusion, and recognition. We have been around for over 50 years and are once again on the verge of growth. We are looking for candidates who are willing to put in hard work and experience the thrill of delivering results to their clients. We have a great foundation of skills and experience to build upon. Whether it's safeguarding and maintaining critical power infrastructure, helping communities recover from natural disasters, enabling our armed forces and first responders, or transforming landfills into public parks, we go to work each day knowing that we are making an impact on the world. These are huge responsibilities, and we take them seriously.
Thinking differently and challenging the norm is our mandate. Every day we plan for the unexpected, develop critical insights, and deliver new, creative adaptive solutions. We do this by leveraging teams that include engineers, scientists, builders, economists, craft professionals, procurement, logistics and process experts.
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