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Role Summary: ICT Lead - Aviation, ATCT

Parsons Corporation is seeking an experienced ICT Lead - Aviation, ATCT - Saudi National for a full-time position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves planning, coordinating, reviewing, and providing technical support for ICT systems, including passive and active networks, specifically for the Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and its associated external areas. The primary objective is to ensure these systems are operationally fit, integrated with other airport platforms, secure, resilient, maintainable, and compliant with project and authority requirements.

The ICT Lead acts as the focal technical engineer for all tower-related ICT systems throughout their lifecycle, covering design, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, and early operations support. This includes ensuring the ATCT communication and data infrastructure meets mission-critical standards for air navigation and airport operational environments, and supporting interdisciplinary coordination among various stakeholders including ICT, ELV, electrical, mechanical, architectural, security, ATC systems, and airport operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Review design documents, drawings, method statements, material submittals, shop drawings, interface matrices, and technical submissions related to ATCT ICT systems.
• Monitor integration requirements between ICT systems and other airport/tower systems such as access control, CCTV, public address, voice communication systems, meteorological systems, BMS, fire alarm, UPS monitoring, and security platforms where applicable.
• Participate in technical reviews to ensure compliance with client standards, aviation authority criteria, cyber-security requirements, redundancy philosophy, maintainability needs, and operational constraints of a 24/7 critical facility.
• Review testing and commissioning procedures including FAT, SAT, pre-commissioning, integrated systems testing, cutover plans, failover testing, redundancy verification, and operational readiness demonstrations.
• Support site inspections and verify that installation quality, labeling, segregation, grounding/bonding, containment, equipment placement, and as-built records meet approved standards.
• Track design and construction risks, identify interface gaps, issue technical comments, and follow up corrective actions to closure.
• Contribute to the development and review of ICT O&M manuals, SOPs, asset registers, preventive maintenance requirements, spare parts lists, training plans, and handover dossiers.
• Coordinate with stakeholders including airport operator, ATC users, digital/cyber-security teams, consultants, contractors, and authority representatives.
• Prepare technical reports, progress updates, issue logs, and engineering recommendations for management decision-making.

Technical System Oversight

• Coordinate the delivery of structured cabling systems, fiber backbone, LAN/WAN connectivity, network rooms, cabinets/racks, switches/servers configuration, network architecture, wireless services, timing/synchronization interfaces, IP telephony, operator work position data connectivity, and associated passive infrastructure.
• Oversee structured cabling system (copper and fiber optic backbone/distribution).
• Manage local area network, switching infrastructure & configuration, network cabinets, patching, and network architecture, integration, cybersecurity and physical layer management.
• Ensure ATCT data connectivity for operational systems and operator positions.
• Manage IP telephony / voice and data interfaces supporting tower operations.
• Oversee wireless access services where approved for operational or administrative zones.
• Coordinate server room / telecom room fit-out interfaces, racks, UPS-fed ICT loads, environmental monitoring, and cable management.
• Manage external ICT links serving guard post, security checkpoint, perimeter/fence interfaces, parking/ancillary facilities, and inter-building communications, as applicable within the project scope.
• Handle integration touchpoints with security, ELV, and digital airport platforms.

Required Experience

Candidates for this position are required to have 5-10 years of relevant experience in ICT systems within an aviation or critical infrastructure environment.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting critical aviation infrastructure.