Senior Technology Services Consultant - Transportation

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Our Technology Services team are looking for a Senior Technology Consultant to help deliver Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), Smart Cities, Mobility and all forms of technology-led transport projects to clients across the UK and internationally.

The team provides services to a diverse client base, from strategic advisory services through to technical research, design and delivery related engineering services. The Technology Services team works closely with clients and partners, largely in the Transportation Sector, although this role will also support other sectors due to its specialist nature.

Our Clients are many and varied and span National Transport Authorities, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities and Contractors as well as the private sector and internal UK and International AECOM businesses.

Recent and Current Projects Include:

• Innovative transport technology projects, including Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), Cooperative ITS (C-ITS), Mobility as a Service (MaaS), and the planning, design and implementation of Smart Motorways schemes and performance assessments.
• Supporting the development and delivery of next-generation mobility solutions, including connected vehicle testbeds and autonomous vehicle trials.
• Developing ITS strategies, action plans, and transformational programmes for transport authorities and national road operators.
• Planning, designing, and implementing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), control centres, telecommunications networks, speed enforcement systems, and traffic management solutions.
• Contributing to sustainable transport initiatives, including EV charging infrastructure, renewable energy projects, and depot decarbonisation.

The team provides technical leadership of projects throughout the project lifecycle from feasibility, preliminary and detailed design stages through to performance monitoring and assessment.

Here’s a broad sample of what you’ll do as a Senior Consultant:

• Provide specialist technical consultancy and design services for the development of projects and bids and subsequent delivery of technical work across Intelligent Transport Systems, Smart Cities, Mobility solutions, C-ITS.
• Have awareness of new developments, technologies and skills helping you and AECOM push the boundaries of mobility through the next generation ITS, CAV and smart cities and acting as a technology scout exploring emerging opportunities within the Technology Services team.
• Lead research, data analysis and proposing recommendations relative to the client, technology and the future.
• Capture client, stakeholder, system and user requirements - developing systems and services, system architecture, design documentation and technical reports.
• Review current and emerging technologies with a view to deploying them to solve real world problems for clients.
• Undertake problem analysis and prepare solution options.
• Undertake feasibility and detailed design tasks.
• Check that the quality of technical deliverables is in line with the client’s brief and AECOM’s quality procedures.

Let's not forget the perks! You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• BEng (or equivalent) in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Maths or Physics.
• Experience in a similar role - e.g. Smart Cities, Intelligent Transport Systems, Connected and Automated Vehicles, MaaS, communications network design.
• Knowledge of ITS and technologies which provide a recognised contribution to modern transportation.
• Knowledge of transport technology market demands, trends and challenges.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement, feasibility/options studies and working directly with clients.

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn - Katie Scales.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.