Digital Solutions Manager Jobs in Kent, WA (NOW HIRING)

What We're Looking For

Establish, grow and lead a team focused on helping transportation organizations transform how project and asset information is created, connected, governed, and applied across the enterprise. This individual will combine digital delivery expertise, data-focused solution architecture, client advisory skills, and people leadership to move organizations from fragmented tools and project-specific workflows toward integrated, scalable, and broadly adopted ways of working.
Aligned directly alongside a Programmatic Digital Delivery Team, this role is expected to shape and deliver solutions that connect planning, engineering, construction, geospatial, program management, and asset lifecycle information. Rather than focusing on a single platform or technology, the individual will work across people, processes, data, and systems to define practical future-state solutions, architect and guide implementation, and help users realize sustained value.

What You'll Do:

• Applies technical expertise and guidance in area of practice. Acts as subject matter expert to provide strategic advice and analysis and engage in marketing and business development efforts for pursuits.
• Prepares technical materials for projects, including strategic analyses, commercial documentation, technical provisions, procurement documents, and other materials pertaining to applicable subject matter focus.
• Works with the line organization in a senior support role on strategically important client and project pursuits, providing technical input and market knowledge to navigate complex projects and enhance win probabilities and client satisfaction.
• Targets national and international associations, trade shows, etc., to help the division/region/office identify leads, win work and maintain industry recognition.
• Identifies, pursues, and executes high-level projects with assigned departments, agencies, and programs.
• Assists in the successful contracting and project execution process, working closely with regional HNTB staff and office leadership.
• Partners with National Practice Consultants and Leaders to develop and promote technical knowledge and applicability of practice area.
• Works with HNTB project leadership to manage client relationships and guides the application of HNTB services within a specific practice area to best serve the interests of the client and HNTB.
• Contributes to strategic planning in area of expertise and assists with thought leadership initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field with 12 years of relevant experience
• Master's degree in relevant field with 11 years of relevant experience
• In lieu of degree, 16 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

• Experience leading digital delivery, digital transformation, information management, or connected data initiatives for transportation, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or asset-intensive organizations.
• Experience developing current-state assessments, future-state operating models, digital delivery strategies, governance frameworks, implementation roadmaps, or enterprise solution architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to connect information and workflows across BIM, GIS, common data environments, program management, construction, asset management, analytics, or related systems.
• Experience defining data standards, information requirements, governance responsibilities, integration approaches, and lifecycle information strategies.
• Experience guiding multidisciplinary solutions from discovery and architecture through implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional stakeholder workshops and communicating effectively with executive, business, technical, project delivery, and operational audiences.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing multidisciplinary professionals while remaining actively engaged in client and project delivery.
• Experience supporting client development, proposals, scope and fee preparation, interviews, and delivery of professional consulting or technology-enabled services.
• Working knowledge of organizational change, stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, readiness assessment, training, communications, or related implementation-support practices.
• Familiarity with information management, systems interoperability, data governance, information security, solution architecture, quality assurance, and technology implementation principles.
• Experience working with public-sector transportation agencies, infrastructure owners, or major capital programs is preferred.
• Relevant professional certification or advanced training in engineering, architecture, planning, project management, information management, asset management, geographic information systems, BIM, systems architecture, organizational change, or a related discipline.

What We Prefer:

• Enterprise and systems thinking: Understands how organizational goals, business processes, people, data, governance, and technology interact across the infrastructure lifecycle.
• Digital delivery architecture: Defines practical future-state solutions that connect project delivery requirements, information flows, platforms, integrations, and user needs.
• Data and information leadership: Understands data governance, ownership, standards, quality, interoperability, traceability, and lifecycle information management.
• Business and technical translation: Converts organizational needs into clear requirements and solution approaches while explaining technical concepts in language meaningful to leaders, practitioners, and users.
• Transformation and adoption leadership: Incorporates stakeholder engagement, readiness, communications, training, user experience, and sustained adoption into solution planning and delivery.
• Consultative problem-solving: Uses structured discovery, analysis, facilitation, and sound judgment to address complex and sometimes ambiguous organizational and technical challenges.
• Client leadership: Builds trust, listens actively, facilitates alignment, and maintains focus on client outcomes rather than individual technologies or products.
• Implementation orientation: Moves effectively from vision and architecture into prioritized actions, pilots, delivery plans, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborative leadership: Brings together engineering, technology, data, business, and operational specialists while creating clarity around responsibilities, decisions, dependencies, and results.
• People development: Coaches and develops team members, delegates meaningful responsibility, provides clear feedback, and builds multidisciplinary capability.
• Communication and facilitation: Communicates clearly in written, verbal, workshop, presentation, and executive settings and adjusts the message for different audiences.
• Quality and accountability: Establishes appropriate quality practices, manages commitments, identifies risks early, and follows through on decisions and expected outcomes.
• Strategic growth mindset: Identifies emerging client needs, develops reusable approaches, contributes to pursuits and thought leadership, and helps scale successful solutions across markets and programs.
• Adaptability and continuous learning: Maintains awareness of evolving digital delivery practices and technologies while evaluating them based on business relevance, feasibility, and client value.

Additional Information

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Locations:

Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Indianapolis, IN, Kansas City, MO, Salt Lake City, UT, Seattle, WA (Downtown)

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The approximate pay range for Washington is $216,716.23 - $346,183.07. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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The approximate pay range for Massachusetts is $216,716.23 - $346,183.07. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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The approximate pay range for Illinois is $198,656.54 - $317,334.48. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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