Smart City Systems Specialist
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About the Role
Translate smart city requirements into specifications, ensure ICT compliance, and support IoT projects with a Bachelor's degree in relevant fields.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Translate smart city solution requirements into performance and functional specifications
- Ensure alignment between smart city platforms, applications, and field level connectivity
- Identify optimum locations for field sensors, gateways, and edge devices
- Coordinate, review and validate ICT designs to enable Smart City solutions
- Ensure ICT and communication designs comply with GCC telecom regulatory authorities and national ICT policies
- Coordinate with licensed telecom operators for connectivity approvals and integration
- Support regulatory submissions, approvals, and compliance documentation
- Act as a trusted systems advisor to internal teams and clients
- Support technical workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder alignment sessions
- Define connectivity requirements for smart city use cases including IoT sensors, surveillance, mobility, utilities, environment, and public safety
- Review and assure network designs covering fiber, wireless, and IoT connectivity
- Ensure designs are scalable, resilient, secure, and future ready
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Engineering or related engineering field
- More than 5 years of experience in systems engineering, ICT, communication networks or smart city related roles
- Experience supporting smart city, digital infrastructure or IoT based projects
- Understanding of ICT concepts, architectures and standards
- Specialism in one or more related fields of ICT and communication networks (fiber optic, wireless, IoT, cybersecurity)
- Proven experience working on government or city authority projects within the GCC
- Understanding of network security, resilience, and availability at a conceptual level
- Familiarity with GCC telecom regulations and ICT compliance requirements
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What You'll Be Doing
- Smart City Enablement: Translate smart city solution requirements into performance and functional specifications.
- Ensure alignment between smart city platforms, applications, and field level connectivity.
- Identify optimum locations for field sensors, gateways, and edge devices, ensuring reliable network integration.
- Coordinate, review and validate ICT designs to enable Smart City solutions.
- Ensure ICT and communication designs comply with GCC telecom regulatory authorities and national ICT policies.
- Coordinate with licensed telecom operators for connectivity approvals and integration.
- Support regulatory submissions, approvals, and compliance documentation.
- Consulting & Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted systems advisor to internal teams and clients.
- Support technical workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder alignment sessions.
- Provide clear technical guidance to non technical decision makers.
- Coordinate with smart city solution architects, ICT & security designers and telecom operators.
- Systems Design and Validation: Work closely with other Parsons disciplines or on ground field teams during design and implementation planning.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Engineering or related engineering field.
- More than 5 years of experience in systems engineering, ICT, communication networks or smart city related roles.
- Experience supporting smart city, digital infrastructure or IoT based projects.
- Understanding of ICT concepts, architectures and standards with the ability to collaborate effectively with ICT specialists.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Specialism in one or more related fields of ICT and communication networks: Fiber optic networks, Wireless networks (LTE/5G, Wi Fi), IoT connectivity (LoRaWAN, NB IoT, cellular IoT), cybersecurity etc.
- Proven experience working on government or city authority projects within the GCC.
- Understanding of network security, resilience, and availability at a conceptual level.
- Familiarity with GCC telecom regulations and ICT compliance requirements.
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