Senior Specialist: Digital Infrastructure📣 Job Ad

About Parsons and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Specialist: Digital Infrastructure to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position supports the planning, design, and delivery of critical digital infrastructure projects within the city.

Role Purpose

The Senior Specialist will contribute to the development and implementation of city-wide fixed fiber, mobile, data center, MMR/POP, telecom room, smart city, ICT/ELV, and network infrastructure. This role involves providing technical support, reviewing designs, and coordinating with various stakeholders across project phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Review fiber backbone, distribution, and access designs, including routes, ducts, sub-ducts, splicing, ODFs, fiber counts, diversity, and spare capacity.
• Provide network architecture inputs covering IP/MPLS, DWDM/ROADM, GPON/XGS-PON, Ethernet, LAN/WAN, wireless, edge, cloud, and operator interconnectivity.
• Examine OSP/ISP designs, including duct banks, manholes, cable routes, containment, risers, telecom rooms, structured cabling, and building entry points.
• Support MMR, POP, MDC, and data center connectivity planning, including racks, cross-connects, demarcation, resilience, and operator access.
• Coordinate with MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, DC operators, consultants, EPC contractors, and utilities regarding network rollout, access, and operational interfaces.
• Review drawings, reports, shop drawings, RFIs, submittals, method statements, specifications, and vendor proposals for digital infrastructure and networks.
• Support mobile network planning, including tower siting, small cells, DAS, RF coverage, backhaul, EMF compliance, and fixed-network integration.
• Support capacity planning and demand modeling for bandwidth, user growth, smart city use cases, DC demand, redundancy, and future expansion.
• Maintain interface registers, issue logs, risk trackers, compliance matrices, design comment trackers, and action logs.
• Coordinate interfaces between ICT, civil, roads, power, utilities, security, smart systems, MEP, architecture, and construction teams.
• Review compliance with CST, SBC, MOMRAH, TIA, BICSI, ISO 27001, Uptime, LEED, cybersecurity, resilience, and O&M requirements.
• Provide operational readiness inputs covering O&M access, maintainability, spares, monitoring, NOC/SOC interfaces, asset data, as-builts, and digital twin readiness.
• Prepare technical inputs for reports, dashboards, presentations, governance forums, workshops, and stakeholder meetings.
• Identify design gaps, risks, clashes, capacity shortfalls, and operational constraints, and propose mitigation actions for escalation.
• Support knowledge transfer between planning, design, engineering, construction, and operations teams, ensuring decisions are documented and traceable.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience in digital infrastructure planning, design, and delivery.

Company Culture and Values

Parsons is guided by a leadership vision that values people, embraces agility, and fosters growth. The company cultivates an innovative culture and maintains a policy of equal employment representation across all job levels, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.

Location and Employment Type

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.