Digital Transformation Specialist

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Digital Transformation Specialist to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves assessing existing project processes, systems, and data sources to identify opportunities for automation and improvement. The specialist will be responsible for developing and maintaining the project's digital transformation roadmap and ensuring its successful implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing project processes, systems, data sources, and digital maturity to identify automation and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain the project's digital transformation roadmap, including implementation plans, priorities, milestones, and performance indicators.
• Support the selection, configuration, and implementation of Project Management Information Systems (PMIS), Common Data Environments (CDE), and digital collaboration platforms.
• Digitize workflows for correspondence, submittals, RFIs, inspections, change control, risk, issues, payments, approvals, actions, and project closeout.
• Integrate project information from scheduling, cost, contracts, BIM, document control, quality, HSE, and field-management systems.
• Develop executive dashboards and automated reports using Power BI or equivalent tools to provide accurate visibility of project performance.
• Establish data structures, coding standards, metadata requirements, master-data rules, and information-governance procedures.
• Coordinate with IT, PMO, consultants, contractors, software providers, and business users to define system and integration requirements.
• Support BIM and digital-engineering teams in connecting models, asset data, progress information, and field records with the wider project-management environment.
• Develop process maps, functional requirements, user stories, system workflows, operating procedures, and training materials.
• Lead user-acceptance testing, system rollout, data migration, issue resolution, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Deliver training, workshops, and user-support sessions, and promote adoption across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Monitor system utilization, data completeness, workflow turnaround times, and user compliance, recommending corrective actions.
• Ensure digital solutions comply with organizational policies, contractual requirements, cybersecurity controls, access permissions, and data-protection obligations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including mobile field applications, digital twins, artificial intelligence, automation, and predictive analytics, recommending practical use cases that add measurable project value.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline from a recognized university.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, including digital transformation, systems implementation, or process improvement responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience supporting PMC, PMO, construction, infrastructure, or engineering-consultancy environments.
• Experience implementing or administering PMIS, CDE, EDMS, or construction-management platforms.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of project-management workflows covering schedule, cost, contracts, risk, change, document control, quality, and HSE.
• Proven experience developing management dashboards and automated reports using Power BI or an equivalent business-intelligence platform.
• Experience with system integration, data migration, user-acceptance testing, and master-data management.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into practical digital workflows and system specifications.
• Strong process-mapping, data-analysis, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.