Senior Manager Virtual City CDU

About the Role: Senior Manager Virtual City CDU

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Manager Virtual City CDU to join its Central Development Unit (CDU) in Riyadh. This full-time role is dedicated to the technical oversight and quality control of digital assets within Qiddiya City's Unreal Engine environment. The position requires deep technical expertise and meticulous attention to detail to ensure compliance with established standards.

Role Context and Purpose

The Senior Manager operates within the Design Excellence vertical of the CDU, which functions as a center of excellence. The CDU sets standards and drives consistency across complex development projects by providing tools and processes for best practice delivery. Design Excellence ensures that projects embody "Qiddiya-ness" by establishing standardized measures of design quality across the program. The Virtual City team is responsible for the Qiddiya City Unreal Engine, facilitating real-time visualization, simulation, and collaboration by integrating GIS, BIM, and IMS data to guide development decision-making.

Core Responsibilities

• Champion QIC's "Safety First" value, including enacting ‘Stop Work’ authority and engaging in relevant health, safety, and wellbeing standards and behaviors.
• Model leadership behaviors consistent with Qiddiya Values.
• Motivate and inspire a high-performance culture through clear direction, continuous feedback, recognition, and fostering collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Ensure all digital models, integrating BIM, GIS, and engineering data, comply with technical standards and file structures.
• Maintain technical excellence and streamline workflows for digital asset management across the Qiddiya program.
• Oversee and maintain the quality and structure of digital models and assets in Unreal Engine.
• Develop, implement, and enforce technical standards for digital modeling, ensuring compliance across all digital assets.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of model updates from external consultants and designers.
• Establish and maintain robust file structures, workflows, and documentation to support technical compliance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to digital asset integration and modeling.
• Continuously assess and improve technical workflows to enhance the integrity of digital models.
• Implement and execute best practices for asset compliance and digital data management.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated deep technical expertise in digital asset management and Unreal Engine.
• Proven ability to ensure compliance with technical standards and maintain data integrity.

Key Values and Behaviors

• Safety: Prioritize wellbeing, address challenges directly, take responsibility for safety, correct unsafe practices, learn from mistakes, and hold others accountable with support.
• Integrity: Communicate truthfully, keep commitments, respect others' rights and opinions, and uphold high professional standards.
• Innovation: Encourage innovation with an open and nimble approach, maintain a curious mindset, seek continuous learning, think creatively, and enhance performance.
• Collaboration: Engage openly and honestly with stakeholders, communicate frequently and transparently, celebrate successes, and collaboratively resolve issues.
• Inclusion: Respect diverse cultures, listen to different perspectives, maintain an open mindset to diverse ideas, build diverse teams equitably, and treat everyone with respect.
• Quality: Ask direct and rational questions, speak relevantly for the audience, be a team player, share knowledge, and uphold uncompromising quality standards.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic team focused on design excellence and virtual city development.