Smart Cities

4 days ago


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Atkins Full time

**Atkins Strategic Advisory Services - **We help clients with big capital projects and infrastructure development ambitions to deliver them successfully. Combining deep business acumen, through our Management Consulting practice, combined with the engineering expertise of Atkins, we offer seamless, end-to-end advisory services that build greater value, and ever rewarding partnerships.

**Atkins Strategic Advisory **services help clients achieve genuine benefits from their investment and change programmes. We advise at senior levels on complex business problems, but we also take a hands-on role, to ensure the solutions aren't just conceived, they are delivered. Our ethos is to stand side-by-side with our clients until the real-world benefits of their investment and change programmes are realised.

**Our Smart Cities team works closely together with our Sustainability and Master Planning professionals, in developing technology enabled solutions to drive sustainable outcomes.**

Be Part of Atkins Strategic Advisory team, where we are seeking a Sr. Consultant to join our rapidly growing Smart Cities practice.

You will be responsible to highly contribute towards Atkins efforts to support Cities’ visions and journeys becoming smarter, more liveable, and sustainable communities.

Your key focus will be to support day-to-day activity on our engagements, assist in building our Smart City Practice. The role is based in UAE or KSA and will require travel.

**The key responsibilities for the role include**:

- Play key role in the delivery of digital transformation and smart city projects across the region. develop analysis, engage client teams and stakeholders, and deliver high-quality work products.
- Provide technical and expert support in the design and preparation of actions and inclusive urban development/future city processes.
- Offer innovative approaches to future city actions by developing Smart City Masterplans and processes, based on global trends but considering local contexts, demands and place-sourced opportunities.
- Work alongside Atkins various engineering disciplines, among which Land Use & Built Environment Master planning and Urban Design, Environmental & Transportation teams, to identify a portfolio of smart city solutions with potential to improve the quality of life and address dimensions such as Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Net Zero Agenda, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, Smart People and Smart Governance.
- Establish relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels to cultivate and manage business development opportunities and to be able to develop the appropriate Business Case and next steps to Project realisation.

**Required Skills and **expertise**:

- Bachelor's degree in technology engineering discipline or a related field.
- At least 4 years of experience in a technology consulting role or a relevant position with transferable skills
- Strong understanding in all phases of smart city and digital transformation projects
- Familiar with Smart Cities requirements in a Master Planning and Urban Design context and processes, with national or regional government entities and/or with property and infrastructure developers
- Strong understanding in developing digital strategies and implementing digital transformation in large organizations, communities, developments, cities, and regions, enabling clients to explore the potential of digital technologies.
- Strong understanding in an asset intensive industry i.e., Rail, Aviation, Cities and buildings, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Rail, Highways and Marine/Ports
- Proven ability to work in a customer facing/consulting environment
- Experience delivering projects through all phases of the lifecycle
- Strong appreciation of the ‘Smart Cities Landscape’ in the Middle East and have networks within the supply chain/vendor environment
- Strong analytical skills, creativity, and communication skills to encourage clients to execute their digital roadmap.
- Strong Presentation skills
- Strong understanding in cybersecurity and specifically cities cyber resilience.
- Strong understanding in Sustainability and specifically the relationship between Smart and Sustainable Cities
- Expertise in relevant technologies (4G/5G communications, IoT, big data and analytics) and their impact on society, business and economy

**Core Behaviours**
- Demonstrate drive, enthusiasm and commitment to projects while projecting a professional image
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a proactive manner with a positive attitude
- Function confidently and competently within client environment and has a positive impact on clients’ perception of Atkins
- Consistently achieves high quality standards and requires limited direction and supervision
- Shows flexibility in tasks and location, and deals well with ambiguity
- Excellent communication skills - written and spoken English is essential (Arabic



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