Senior Consultant

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a **Senior Consultant Smart Cities** in** Dubai or Riyadh.**

**About AtkinsRéalis**

We are seeking a dynamic and delivery-focused Senior Consultant to join our Consulting, Strategy and Advisory, Smart Cities Services. This role is ideal for professionals with 6-8 years of experience, including 2-3 years dedicated to smart cities or digital transformation initiatives.

As a Senior Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping smart city strategies by defining use cases, developing functional and technical requirements, and contributing to specifications and implementation guidelines. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across design, procurement, and delivery stages, ensuring alignment with client objectives and global best practices.

This position offers hands-on involvement in high-impact projects across the Middle East, providing exposure to complex urban challenges and opportunities to drive meaningful change. You will embody AtkinsRéalis’ commitment to innovation, sustainability, and integrated thinking & helping clients unlock the full potential of digital and smart solutions in the built environment.

**Responsibilities**:
**_ Project Delivery:_**
- Provide expert technical support in the design and development of inclusive urban strategies and future city processes.
- Develop smart city use cases and translate them into functional and technical requirements aligned with client objectives.
- Draft guidelines, specifications, compliance scorecards, and SOPs for smart city systems and services.
- Lead design reviews across Pre-Concept, Concept, Schematic, and Detailed Design stages, ensuring smart city provisions are embedded.
- Collaborate with ICT, MEP, and sustainability teams to integrate smart city requirements into drawings, BIM models, and technical specifications.
- Conduct benchmarking and research to align strategies with ISO 37122, SmartScore, WiredScore, and global best practices.
- Contribute to the definition of requirements for Smart City Platforms, IoT ecosystems, and Command & Control Centers.
- Facilitate integration discussions focused on data management, interoperability, and system-of-systems architecture.
- Assist in developing evaluation criteria and frameworks for Master System Integrators (MSI/DSI) during procurement.
- Prepare and deliver high-quality presentations, reports, and technical documentation for clients and stakeholders.
- Support stakeholder workshops to capture needs, refine requirements, and ensure alignment with project goals.
- Work alongside Land Use, Built Environment Masterplanning, and Urban Design teams to identify smart city solutions that enhance quality of life and address key dimensions such as: Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Net Zero Agenda, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, Smart People, Smart Governance.
- Ability to convert strategy into actionable deliverables (use cases, RTMs, SOPs).
- Strong analytical mindset with sharp research and problem-solving skills.
- Effective collaborator in multi-disciplinary teams with confident client engagement.

**_ Business Development:_**
- Support business development activities by preparing proposal inputs, case studies, and project references.
- Contribute to the development of internal knowledge frameworks, tools, and templates to support consistent and high-quality smart city delivery.
- Offer innovative approaches to future city actions by developing Smart City Masterplans and processes that reflect global trends while responding to local contexts, demands, and place-based opportunities.

**Education**:

- MBA with technology focus.
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree, in urban informatics/smart cities or relevant core engineering, digital or related field.

**Professional Experience / Qualifications**:

- Relevant experience: 3+ years in smart city development and delivery.
- Smart City Platforms / IoT Platforms - data integration, analytics, interoperability.
- Urban Command & Control Centers (UCCCs/NUOCs) - operations, visualization, use-case enablement.
- Digital Infrastructure - networks, cloud, cybersecurity, data governance.
- Sectoral Use Cases - mobility, sustainability, public safety, urban services.
- Excellent understanding of MS Excel, financial modelling, and analytical skills, with proficiency in real estate valuation techniques.
- Exposure to Power BI and project reporting tools is preferrable.
- Ability to analyse and interpret data to deliver insightful practical solutions.

**Behavioural Skills**:

- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex topics to diverse stakeholders.
- Skilled in building effective relationships with clients, regulators, and partners.
- Fluent in English; Arabic proficiency a plus.
- Willing and able to travel as required for project success.
- Strong report writing and quality review capabilities.
- Able to manage priorities and perform under pressure.
- Adaptable, proactive, an