Senior Solution Architect - Water

Bentley Systems; Little Elm (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a Senior Solution Architect, Water to help utilities and engineering organizations transform through Bentley’s infrastructure engineering and digital twin solutions.

You will engage executives and technical leaders to align business goals with Bentley’s software portfolio, develop scalable strategies, and mentor teams across global accounts. This home-based role requires travel and deep water domain acumen.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in water/wastewater or related infra industries.
• Minimum 7 years implementing or using Bentley water solutions including OpenFlows.
• Strong knowledge of water utility business processes and digital transformation.
• Willing to travel at least 30% of the year.
• Experience presenting to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise solution design and multi-year digital transformation roadmaps.
• Conduct technical discovery workshops with stakeholders.
• Mentor junior architects and engineers.
• Translate business priorities into scalable Bentley solutions.
• Guide digital twin strategies using Bentley Infrastructure Cloud and iTwin.

Skills

Water industry expertise

Solution architecture

Executive communication

Technical sales leadership

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Bentley OpenFlows

Bentley WaterSight

Bentley iTwin

Bentley ProjectWise

Bentley AssetWise

Job description

Location: Home-Based, United States

Bentley Systems is seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Solution Architect, Water to help water utilities, engineering organizations, and technology partners accelerate their digital transformation initiatives through the adoption of Bentley's infrastructure engineering and digital twin solutions.

The Senior Solution Architect serves as a trusted advisor to executive, operational, engineering, and technology stakeholders, helping organizations connect business objectives, engineering workflows, asset performance goals, and digital transformation strategies with Bentley's software portfolio.

This role combines deep water industry expertise, enterprise solution architecture, technical sales leadership, and business consulting capabilities to develop repeatable, scalable solutions that improve infrastructure planning, design, construction, operations, and asset management outcomes.

Success in this role requires the ability to engage from the project level to the executive level, influence strategic technology decisions, and translate emerging industry challenges into innovative business solutions utilizing Bentley technologies.

Create reusable methodologies, demonstrations, and enablement materials for global teams.

• Mentor Application Engineers, Solution Architects, and emerging technical leaders.
• Partner with Account Management, Product Management, Services, Marketing, and other technical teams to support strategic account growth.
• Identify practical applications for AI, automation, and advanced analytics within engineering and asset management workflows.
• Guide digital twin and infrastructure intelligence strategies using Bentley Infrastructure Cloud and iTwin technologies.
• Advise customers on water industry workflows, data governance, interoperability, cloud adoption, and digital engineering practices.
• Architect solutions that connect engineering, geospatial, operational, asset, sensor, and IoT data.
• Lead technical discovery workshops, enterprise solution design, and multi-year digital transformation roadmaps.
• Translate customer business priorities and industry challenges into scalable Bentley solution strategies.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor for strategic water utility, engineering consulting, and infrastructure owner-operator accounts.

Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer.

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or relevant training and/or experience.

• 5-10 years of experience in the water, wastewater, stormwater, or related infrastructure industries.
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience implementing or utilizing Bentley water solutions, including OpenFlows products.
• Strong knowledge of water utility business processes, engineering workflows, operational technologies, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing and presenting technical and executive-level presentations.
• Exceptional communication, consulting, and relationship-building skills.
• Must be willing to travel at least 30% of the year.
• Experience with digital twin strategies and enterprise architecture initiatives.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, IoT systems, analytics platforms, and smart utility technologies.
• Familiarity with Bentley water applications such as OpenFlows and WaterSight.
• Familiarity with Bentley Infrastructure Cloud solutions, including ProjectWise, AssetWise, SYNCHRO, WaterSight, PlantSight, and iTwin technologies.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary infrastructure environments, including transportation, energy, environmental, and industrial sectors.
• Experience leading complex enterprise software evaluations and transformation programs.

#LI-REMOTE

This is a Home-based role.

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A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.

Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world's infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world.

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world's infrastructure - sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent's software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations.

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