What are the responsibilities and job description for the Functional Architect (PPM) position at WSP in the U.S.?
Job Description
Role Purpose
The Functional Architect provides functional design leadership across Project Portfolio Management capabilities, ensuring business requirements, business processes, and system functionality are translated into coherent, scalable, and globally standardised solutions.
The role acts as the bridge between Business Architecture, Process Leadership, Subject Matter Experts, Delivery teams, and Oracle Fusion solution design. The Functional Architect is accountable for functional integrity, ensuring solutions align to the Global Target Operating Model, support business outcomes, and remain sustainable over the long term.
Core Accountabilities
Functional Solution Design
Accountable for:
Experience and Capability Requirements
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $145,400.00 - $259,100.00
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $145,400.00 - $243,200.00
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Role Purpose
The Functional Architect provides functional design leadership across Project Portfolio Management capabilities, ensuring business requirements, business processes, and system functionality are translated into coherent, scalable, and globally standardised solutions.
The role acts as the bridge between Business Architecture, Process Leadership, Subject Matter Experts, Delivery teams, and Oracle Fusion solution design. The Functional Architect is accountable for functional integrity, ensuring solutions align to the Global Target Operating Model, support business outcomes, and remain sustainable over the long term.
Core Accountabilities
Functional Solution Design
- Translate approved business requirements and process designs into detailed functional solution designs.
- Define functional rules, business logic, process flows, data requirements, and solution behaviours.
- Ensure functional solutions remain aligned to enterprise process standards and target operating models.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, and reuse across regions and business functions.
- Act as the functional design authority for assigned business capabilities and Oracle Fusion modules.
- Provide expert guidance on Oracle capability and solution options.
- Assess impacts, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs associated with design decisions.
- Ensure functional decisions consider upstream and downstream process implications across the end-to-end process landscape.
- Partner with Business Architects, Global Process Owners, and Global Process Leads to ensure solution alignment with the Global Target Operating Model.
- Ensure process intent is accurately reflected within functional solution design.
- Challenge requirements and design assumptions where improvements in standardisation, scalability, or operational efficiency can be achieved.
- Support design governance forums and decision-making processes.
- Provide functional leadership throughout design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilisation activities.
- Review solution configuration against approved functional requirements and design intent.
- Support business testing, defect resolution, and functional issue triage.
- Assess the impact of Oracle quarterly releases, enhancements, and change requests.
- Participate in design reviews, architecture reviews, and governance forums.
- Ensure solutions comply with global standards, approved design principles, and architectural decisions.
- Support creation of functional specifications, design documentation, and decision records.
- Provide assurance that functional designs remain aligned to business objectives throughout delivery.
- Work closely with SMEs, regional stakeholders, Finance, Operations, Shared Services, Business Architecture, IT, and Delivery teams.
- Facilitate workshops and design sessions to obtain clarity and consensus on complex topics.
- Translate technical solution concepts into business language that supports informed decision making.
- Build strong relationships across business and technology communities.
- Global Process Owner
- Global Process Lead
- Business Architects
- Subject Matter Experts
- Solution Architects
- Enterprise Architecture
- Regional Business Representatives
- Shared Services
- Operations Teams
- Finance Teams
- Delivery Teams
- AMS and Support Functions
- Project and Programme Leadership
Accountable for:
- Functional coherence and integrity.
- Alignment between approved business process design and functional solution design.
- Functional standardisation and consistency across regions.
- Fitness of functional design to support operational execution.
Experience and Capability Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 12 years relevant experience
- Strong functional expertise within Project Portfolio Management processes and Oracle Fusion PPM.
- Demonstrated experience operating as a Functional Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, or senior solution design practitioner.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end project lifecycle processes including project setup, forecasting, cost management, billing, revenue, and project close.
- Experience supporting ERP transformation programmes and global process standardisation initiatives.
- Proven ability to assess business impacts and design scalable enterprise solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Experience within engineering, consulting, professional services, or project-based organisations.
- Experience working alongside Business Architecture and Global Process Owner operating models.
- Experience supporting multi-region deployments and global operating models.
- Exposure to Finance, Order-to-Cash, and enterprise integration processes.
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $145,400.00 - $259,100.00
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $145,400.00 - $243,200.00
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Salary : $145,400 - $259,100