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Role description:

Arcadis is growing!  Arcadis USA is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our Intelligence Solutions team in Seattle, USA.  This role sits within the Global Intelligence Business Area

Arcadis IBI Group's Transit Data team is hiring a Technical Project Manager to join their TRANSIT-alerts/realtime sub-team. Remote work from any location in North America will be considered.

Arcadis's Transit Data team focuses on helping transit agencies manage their data and provide high-quality real-time information to passengers. The Transit Data practice also has a special emphasis on open data and open data standards like GTFS/GTFS-realtime.

The Transit Data team has been working closely with many agencies to plan for, design, procure, implement, maintain, and test their passenger information and transit data systems. This includes experience with King County Metro (Seattle), Sound Transit (Seattle), Community Transit (Everett), TransLink (Vancouver), RTD (Denver), MBTA (Boston), and others.

A Little About Our Products:

The Transit Data team provides the following software systems to transit agencies:

• TRANSIT-alerts: manage and disseminate a region's or agency’s service alerts (delays, cancellations, etc.)
• TRANSIT-realtime: manage and disseminate a region’s or agency’s real-time prediction and vehicle location data
• TRANSIT-data-tools: manage and edit a region’s or agency’s GTFS data
• TRANSIT-routing: OpenTripPlanner-based system for planning multi-modal trips

Role accountabilities:

• Immediately (typically starting within 0-6 months):
  • Setup, configure, and manage TRANSIT-alerts/-realtime systems:
    • Configure systems to meet client’s preferences
    • Perform manual QA and/or write scripts to automate QA procedures
    • Identify root cause of bugs and propose bug fixes
    • Create and revise internal and customer documentation
    • Periodic scheduled after-hours support and occasional emergency after-hours support
  • Track project progress and provide updates to internal and external project teams
  • Communicate with clients, and act as liaison between clients and the product/development teams
  • Contribute to proposals, demos, and other business development efforts
• Eventually (typically starting after 3-6 months):
  • Act as primary point of contact for client agencies
  • Translate client needs into functional requirements
  • Help manage development and release process for new software features
  • Develop project budgets and schedules

Qualifications & Experience:

• At least two years of experience with transit data, software, planning, or engineering projects
• Familiarity with and/or interest in public transit, including transit data
• Experience with project management, software product management, or other similar experience
• Familiarity with software programming concepts (any language)
• Curiosity to understand how systems work and identify/solve problems
• Attention to detail and ability to balance priorities and multiple projects
• Interest in developing new skills and excitement for new challenges

It’s a bonus if you also have:

• Experience managing transit software systems
• Experience with GTFS or GTFS-realtime data
• Experience with databases and writing SQL scripts
• Experience or familiarity with a programming language such as C# or JavaScript
• Experience with AWS modules such as EC2, S3, and IAM
• Experience with Windows Server and desktop operation
• Experience with GitHub branching, merging, code review, and automation
• Experience writing, executing, and troubleshooting Katalon test scripts
• Familiarity with transit operations

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 year.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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