Practice Director - Cloud AI, Digital Innovations

The role

Lead the AI practice within Woolpert Digital Innovations. Define its strategy and service offerings, grow revenue and client relationships, and lead and develop a team of AI engineers and architects.

What you will do

• Define and execute the multi-year strategy, service offerings, and growth roadmap for the AI Practice.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of AI Customer Engineers, Solution Architects, and AI specialists.
• Partner with sales and executive leadership to drive revenue growth and lead high-stakes technical pitches.
• Serve as executive sponsor for key partner relationships, including Google Cloud.
• Represent Woolpert at industry conferences, panels, and executive briefings.
• Ensure high-quality technical delivery across all AI engagements and set best practices for architecture and Responsible AI governance.
• Oversee practice utilization, resource allocation, margin targets, and financial performance.
• Advise enterprise C-suite executives on AI transformation roadmaps, ROI, and governance frameworks.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of technical leadership or practice management in professional services, cloud consulting, or tech firms.
• 3+ years focused on building and delivering AI, machine learning, or data platform solutions.
• Demonstrated success growing a professional services practice and managing P&L or practice metrics.
• Demonstrated success driving partner co-sell strategies.
• Strong background in cloud architecture, enterprise AI models, data infrastructure, and modern software engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and deploying production-grade solutions on Google Cloud Platform, including big data architecture, data lakes, and data warehousing.
• Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, or Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification.

Nice to have

• Experience with Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
• Knowledge of non-Google geospatial platforms such as ArcGIS, GeoServer, QGIS, OpenLayers, MapBox, or CARTO.
• Relevant Google, Amazon, or Azure certification.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong debugging skills for non-deterministic AI outputs and complex API tracing.

Benefits

• Freedom to Work program: set your own schedule and location, as appropriate.
• Principal program: opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off and vacation.
• Career development and learning opportunities.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance.
• Paid sick time.
• Retirement plan.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Pet insurance.
• Identity protection.
• Technology stipend.
• Employee assistance program.

Before you apply

• Woolpert cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already have work authorization in the country where the job is located.
• The posting includes a Google Cloud certification requirement.

About the company

Woolpert is an architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm with over 75 offices, certified as a Great Place to Work. It helps clients solve complex challenges that shape communities and critical infrastructure.