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Job Description:
Role Purpose
Translate the city-wide Digital Infrastructure Masterplan into phased implementation and planning packages.
Key Responsibilities
- Define planning horizons (short-, mid-, long-term) for fiber, mobile, data centers, and smart systems.
- Chair planning review boards; enforce compliance with standards and masterplan objectives.
- Align capacity, resilience, and cybersecurity planning with overall project
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity modelling for fixed, mobile, and data center infrastructure.
- Develop fiber routing and tower siting strategies; validate district connectivity plans.
- Coordinate data center and edge computing, siting and phasing plans.
- Review and approve Networks for DC, MMRs/POPs, duct banks, and right-of-way allocations.
- Integrate planning with SEC power, NWC water, district cooling, and other utilities.
- Provide planning baselines for design and construction teams; monitor adherence.
- Manage change requests, planning deviations, and phasing adjustments.
- Support constructability reviews, sequencing, and co-build opportunities with other disciplines.
- Track delivery progress against planning baselines; report variances.
- Ensure planning compliance with standards for critical facilities
- Integrate sustainability targets (LEED, PUE, renewable energy) into planning milestones.
- Coordinate planning approvals with CST, SEC, NWC, MOMRAH, SDAIA, and other authorities.
- Engage with MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, and DC operators for alignment of capacity and rollout plans.
- Represent planning scenarios in client/owner steering committees and governance forums.
- Ensure O&M requirements are embedded into planning (access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy).
- Support Operational Readiness by aligning phasing with training, spares, and operations setup.
- Provide planning input for commissioning, IST schedules, and phased handovers.
- Build and lead planning teams for fiber, mobile, and data centers.
- Mentor planners; establish best practices, planning methodologies, and knowledge-sharing culture.
- Foster collaboration with designers, construction managers, and external consultants.
Qualifications & Experience
- Master’s degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management; PMP/PRINCE2/Chartered status preferred.
- 20+ years’ experience in ICT, telecoms, fiber deployment, smart city, data center, utilities, and critical infrastructure planning, preferably on city-wide, giga-project, mixed-use, campus, or large infrastructure programs.
- Proven digital infrastructure planning leadership, covering masterplans, phased implementation plans, short/mid/long-term planning horizons, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, and district connectivity planning.
- Strong multidisciplinary coordination experience, including integration with design, construction, utilities, SEC, NWC, district cooling, authorities, MNOs, tower companies, fiber operators, DC operators, consultants, and contractors.
- Strong planning governance and delivery-control capability, including planning review boards, baseline management, change control, phasing adjustments, progress tracking, risk management.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management
- PMP, PRINCE2, or Chartered status
- 20+ years experience in ICT, telecoms, fiber deployment, smart city, data center, utilities, and critical infrastructure planning
- Proven leadership in digital infrastructure masterplanning and phased implementation (fiber/mobile/data center/smart systems)
- Experience in demand forecasting and capacity modelling for fixed, mobile, and data center infrastructure
- Strong multidisciplinary coordination with utilities, authorities, operators, consultants, and contractors
- Planning governance and delivery-control capability including review boards, baseline management, change control, and risk management
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
