Digital Solutions Senior Specialist/Smart Cities Senior Specialist

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Job Description:

Job Description:

Digital Solutions Senior Specialist

Parsons is seeking a highly talented and experienced Digital Solutions Senior Specialist/Smart Cities Senior Specialist) to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on prominent urban and infrastructure development projects across the Middle East that will transform our cities.

As a Senior Specialist in the Digital Solutions team, you will be instrumental in advancing our clients' technology goals, including identifying, prioritizing and developing technology and smart city initiatives, advanced mobility, artificial intelligence applications, and digitalization of processes. This role requires leadership, adaptability, and creative thinking to address a variety of client challenges within the digital realm. A passion for technology is essential to analyze issues, propose relevant solutions, conduct research on emerging trends, and collaborate with team members – both senior and junior - to identify and develop innovative digital strategies and solutions.

Your responsibilities will encompass supporting business development activities and proposal preparation, client positioning, project planning and execution, preparing technical documentation, analyzing data, and ensuring quality assurance. Effective communication with clients and team members is crucial to your success. Additionally, you will contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by staying informed about the latest advancements in smart city technologies, asset management, and sustainability initiatives.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Client Consultation: work as part of a team to advise clients on their smart city and digital ambitions on a range of industry sectors across the Middle East.
• Proposal development: develop business opportunities and build compelling proposals to win work across a range of technology driven domains
• Project delivery: Support a series of consultancy projects across the Middle East. You will be expected to lead certain project activites initially with a view to leading the delivery of your own projects in a short timeframe
• Solution Development: identification and development of digital solution designs.
• Multi-discipilinary coordination: Working alongside multiple teams from masterplanning, landscaping, mobility, environment and sustainability and asset management to deliver fully coordinated and integrated proposals and projects

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Technical degree from accredited program involving technology or digital solutions
• 5-10 years experience working in a consultancy or engineering environment
• Strong analytical and lateral thinking to solve complex problems
• Passionate about technology and the latest technology trends
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, show initiative, be proactive, and take ownership of issues to ensure they are completed on time and to a high standard.
• Self-starter with the skills to research and complete tasks with limited supervision.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Knowledge of artificial intelligence applications is beneficial
• Experience in data visualisation such as Power BI
• Ability to read and understand engineering and system architecture drawings.
• Ability to demonstrate assertiveness and work in a fast-paced environment.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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