Principal Transportation Engineer

Title: Principal Transportation Engineer

Location: Washington DC metro area, but remote work locations will be considered.

Overview

ICF is seeking an experienced ITS/TSMO consultant to join our Transportation Operations team. We work with federal and state transportation agencies to advance TSMO, ITS, technology modernization, and data-driven operations. The ideal candidate combines strong domain knowledge with a consultant mindset: strategic thinking, clear communication, collaborative problem solving, and the ability to help clients move from ideas to implementable solutions. This is a non-managerial role with the focus on technical advisory - managing task orders, supporting high-quality project delivery, building trusted client relationships, and help identifying opportunities for follow-on and new work.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead TSMO and ITS planning, strategy, technology assessment, and program implementation activities for state and federal transportation clients.
• Analyze emerging transportation technologies and operational concepts, including connected and automated vehicles, integrated corridor management, data platforms, traffic management systems, and digital modernization initiatives.
• Manage task orders and workstreams, including scope development, task planning, staffing coordination, schedule management, budgeting, quality control, and subcontractor coordination.
• Develop client-ready deliverables, including technical memoranda, strategic plans, implementation roadmaps, business cases, performance frameworks, and executive-level presentations.
• Facilitate client meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities that build consensus, surface priorities, and translate complex issues into practical recommendations.
• Cultivate client relationships, identify follow-on opportunities, and support proposals, capture activities, and account growth efforts.
• Contribute to high-quality project delivery across multiple assignments while collaborating effectively with senior leaders, peers, junior staff, and technical specialists.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 12+ years of progressive professional experience supporting TSMO, ITS, transportation operations, technology modernization, or related consulting services for public-sector transportation clients.

Skills

• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and take ownership of assigned work.
• Trusted advisor who builds credibility with agency executives, managers, operators, technologists, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Clear and persuasive communicator who can simplify complex operational and technical issues for varied audiences.
• Collaborative leader who mentors staff, draws on diverse technical expertise, and creates high-performing teams.
• Market-aware, with curiosity about emerging technologies, agency needs, and new strategies and technologies for TSMO.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) or Professional Engineer (PE), or ability to pursue certification, is desirable but not required.
• Knowledge of TSMO and ITS programs, including transportation operations planning, systems engineering, strategic planning, data management, technology assessments, and program evaluation.
• Ability to assess operational needs, define practical solutions, and frame recommendations in terms of client value, implementation feasibility, cost, risk, benefits, and performance outcomes.
• Experience supporting digital modernization of transportation operations systems, software platforms, data environments, or traffic management capabilities.
• Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, interviews, or collaborative planning sessions with agency staff, executives, operators, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to support business development through client engagement, capture strategy, proposal writing, solution development, and thought leadership.

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