Senior Rail Telecom Design Lead

Larsen & Toubro; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro seeks a Design/Engineering Manager in Dubai to lead all design and engineering activities across rail telecom systems, ensuring robust, cost-effective, standards-compliant designs aligned with project schedules.

You will oversee multidisciplinary teams, integrate design with procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning, and ensure secure, scalable telecom architectures across fibre, IP/MPLS, PIDS, CCTV, PAS, and data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems)
• Master’s degree; professional membership in international railway bodies preferred
• Minimum 15–18 years in railway telecom design/engineering for large projects
• Minimum 5 years in a senior telecom design/engineering management role

Responsibilities

• Organize and staff design and engineering functions with the Project Manager
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across telecom, PSD and other rail systems
• Allocate responsibilities to discipline leads and ensure coordination
• Establish engineering organization, roles, responsibilities and resources
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to design engineers
• Manage consultants, subcontractors and suppliers in telecommunications and rail systems
• Define and manage end-to-end telecom architecture
• Develop network topology, redundancy, resilience, and disaster recovery provisions
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity and System Assurance teams
• Ensure interoperability between subsystems and rail systems

Skills

Rail systems design

Telecom integration

Technical bid evaluation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Fiber Optic Networks

IP/MPLS Networks

CCTV Systems

PAS/PIDS

Data Centers

Security Architecture

Onboard Telecom

Job description

Larsen & Toubro seeks a Design/Engineering Manager in Dubai to lead all design and engineering activities across rail telecom systems, ensuring robust, cost-effective, standards-compliant designs aligned with project schedules.

You will oversee multidisciplinary teams, integrate design with procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning, and ensure secure, scalable telecom architectures across fibre, IP/MPLS, PIDS, CCTV, PAS, and data centers.