Principal GIS Consultant - GeoAI & Spatial Intelligence

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, with a particular focus on supporting 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. As a Principal Geospatial Consultant 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. 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 both 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.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate… 

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.