Software Development Lead – Digital Twin

Overview

Job Description

Software Development Lead

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work alongside the GIS Development Lead to deliver all non-Esri software development and configuration activities for the Digital Twin platform across discovery, design, PoC, implementation, and post implementation support phases.
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs, microservices, and integration services required to connect the Digital Twin platform with external systems and data sources.
• Lead the implementation and configuration of non-Esri software products and components that form part of the Digital Twin ecosystem (e.g., integration platforms, data services, custom web apps).
• Define and enforce software development standards, coding guidelines, and best practices across the development team.
• Collaborate with solution architects, data engineers, GIS specialists, and platform engineers to design and validate application and integration components, including non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
• Lead the software development workstream during the Proof of Concept, including build, configuration, integration, testing, and validation of key use cases and data flows.
• Plan and oversee the transition of software components from PoC to a production grade environment, including environment setup, deployment pipelines, integrations, performance tuning, and go live readiness.
• Design and deliver automated testing frameworks for the Digital Twin software stack.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to software developers and related vendors, ensuring high quality, maintainable, and secure code.
• Support stakeholder engagement on software and integration topics, including workshops to capture technical requirements, user journeys, and interface specifications.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical documentation, including solution designs, API specifications, configuration guides, and operational runbooks.
• Support post implementation operations for software components, including incident and problem resolution, minor enhancements, and continuous improvement of services and integrations.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• Proven experience leading software development for large scale digital, platform, or integration projects, preferably in infrastructure, utilities, or urban environments.
• Experience collaborating with GIS teams or integrating with GIS platforms (e.g., Esri ArcGIS) within broader digital or Digital Twin solutions.
• Strong hands on experience with back end development and API design (e.g., REST, GraphQL), including authentication/authorisation, versioning, and documentation.
• Experience designing and implementing integrations between enterprise/operational systems such as CMMS/EAM, ERP, BIM, SCADA/IoT platforms, and data warehouses/lakes.
• Solid understanding of systems integration concepts and technologies, including APIs, web services, message queues, and event driven architectures.
• Practical experience with modern software architectures such as microservices, containerisation, and cloud native patterns.
• Familiarity with data and information architecture concepts, including working with time series data, asset data, and streaming data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience working within multidisciplinary, multinational teams distributed across multiple time zones.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with experience planning and controlling software development workstreams using formal delivery methodologies (e.g.,Agile/Scrum,PMI,PRINCE2,Hybrid).
• Hands on involvement in testing, acceptance, performance tuning, and go live activities for complex or integrated software systems.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain technical and integration concepts clearly to non technical stakeholders.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Experience working with national infrastructure owners, transport authorities, utilities, or public works organisations.
• Arabic language skills are a strong advantage.
• 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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