Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

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, focusing on 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.

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 where 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 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.
- Collaborate 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.

Experience
- Strong professional experience in GIS, with a clear focus on Python development and automation.
- Proficient in Python libraries and tools including ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python, geopandas, shapely, rasterio, and GDAL.
- Practical experience applying AI/ML to geospatial problems such as 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.

About you
- Proactive and resilient mindset with exceptional problem-solving abilities.
- Customer-focused approach to deliver exceptional outcomes.
- Strong collaborator able to work across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Passionate about innovation and continuous learning in geospatial and AI technologies.

Qualifications
- Degree (BSc or MSc) in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline.
- Candidates who do not meet all criteria are encouraged to apply to explore alignment with this role or other opportunities within the team.