Senior Specialist - Digital Infrastructure

Job Summary

Senior Specialist – Digital Infrastructure

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Telecommunications

Function:
Telecom Administration Management

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

Minimum 8 years

Salary: 30,000–42,000 SAR (estimated)

Gender: Any. Nationality:
Saudi National

Senior Specialist – Digital Infrastructure in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Telecommunications hiring opportunity with Parsons Corporation for a Saudi National professional experienced in fiber networks, telecom infrastructure, smart city platforms, data centers, ICT, ELV, and resilient network architecture. This role supports the planning, technical review, coordination, and delivery of city-wide digital infrastructure systems that enable scalable connectivity, operational readiness, cybersecurity alignment, and long-term digital transformation across a major development program.

• Support planning, design review, technical coordination, and delivery of large-scale digital infrastructure programs covering fiber networks, mobile infrastructure, data centers, telecom rooms, MMR facilities, POP sites, smart city systems, ICT platforms, and ELV networks.
• Review fiber backbone, distribution, and access network designs, including route planning, ducts, sub-ducts, splicing strategy, ODFs, fiber counts, diversity, redundancy, and spare capacity.
• Provide technical input on network architecture involving IP/MPLS, DWDM, ROADM, GPON, XGS-PON, Ethernet, LAN, WAN, wireless networks, edge computing, cloud connectivity, and operator interconnectivity.
• Review Outside Plant and Inside Plant designs, including duct banks, manholes, cable routes, risers, containment systems, telecom rooms, building entry points, and structured cabling layouts.
• Support planning and coordination for MMR, POP, MDC, and data center connectivity, including racks, cross-connects, demarcation points, resilience criteria, operator access, and expansion needs.
• Coordinate with Mobile Network Operators, Tower Companies, Fiber Providers, Data Center Operators, consultants, EPC contractors, utilities, technology vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Review technical drawings, shop drawings, RFIs, technical reports, method statements, specifications, vendor proposals, and submittals related to digital infrastructure systems.
• Support mobile network planning activities covering tower locations, small cells, DAS, RF coverage, EMF compliance, backhaul connectivity, and fixed network integration.
• Contribute to capacity planning and demand forecasting for bandwidth growth, smart city applications, user demand, data center requirements, redundancy, and future scalability.
• Maintain interface registers, design comment trackers, technical issue logs, risk registers, compliance matrices, action trackers, and decision records.
• Coordinate technical interfaces between ICT, civil works, roads, utilities, power, security, smart systems, MEP, architecture, telecom, and construction teams.
• Review compliance with applicable standards and requirements including CST, SBC, MOMRAH, TIA, BICSI, ISO 27001, Uptime standards, LEED, cybersecurity, resilience, and operational expectations.
• Support operational readiness requirements covering O&M access, maintainability, spare capacity, monitoring, NOC interfaces, SOC interfaces, asset data, as-built documentation, and digital twin readiness.
• Prepare technical inputs for reports, dashboards, presentations, governance meetings, stakeholder workshops, and progress discussions.
• Identify design gaps, technical risks, interface clashes, capacity constraints, operational limitations, and constructability concerns, then recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Support testing, commissioning, handover, and closeout activities for telecom, ICT, fiber, ELV, data center connectivity, and smart city infrastructure.
• Assist knowledge transfer between planning, design, engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance teams to keep technical decisions properly documented.
• Promote resilient, scalable, secure, and maintainable digital infrastructure solutions across project delivery activities.

• Bachelor's degree in ICT, Telecommunications,…