Consultant - Smart Cities

Jacobs; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Extended leave

Wellbeing initiatives

Social events

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Smart Cities Consultant to drive digital transformation across cities, regions and developments. You will analyze needs, design smart services, and guide delivery from concept to implementation, while engaging engineers, urban designers, and city stakeholders to create value and impact.

You will build your personal brand and client relationships, helping teams develop digital awareness and share knowledge.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering strategies and projects for cities, regions, developments, and communities to harness digital tech potential.
• Experience with national or local government bodies and/or property and infrastructure firms.
• Analytical and numerical skills are a strong advantage.
• Expertise in technologies like 4G/5G, IoT, big data/analytics and their business, social and economic impact.

Responsibilities

• Assess city, regional, development, and community needs and opportunities.
• Develop city/infrastructure digital strategies and identify value-creating services.
• Support planning, design, and implementation of smart city services and digital infrastructure.
• Apply user-centered design and advanced techniques to real-world problems.
• Present findings with clear outputs, visualizations, infographics, or dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineers, urban designers, planners, clients, and stakeholders.
• Build client and internal relationships and share knowledge to promote best practice.

Skills

City digital strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Big data analytics

IoT technologies

4G/5G knowledge

English communication

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Degree qualified

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

We are looking for a Smart Cities Consultant who can focus on details and see the big picture. You will be joining a team who is delivering digital transformation in cities, regions and developments, supporting Clients on major projects globally across multiple sectors. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing team in a rapidly growing market, realize real change and contribute to revolutionary change on a city scale.

As a Smart Cities Consultant, you will be tasked with working across the Smart City project lifecycle, from the analysis of qualities of place, to the identification and design of smart services, to planning for and driving their implementation. A successful candidate will be able to evidence an excellent capability in applying advanced techniques such as user-centric design on real-life problems as well as presenting outputs in visual forms, infographics and/or dashboards. You will need to collaboratively engage with engineers, urban designers, city stakeholders and industry professionals to develop solutions and agree outputs

You will be responsible for building your personal brand and developing relationships internally and with clients to help us share knowledge and deliver best practice, you will also be called upon to help colleagues develop their digital awareness, sharing their own knowledge to help others.

Key responsibilities

• Assess the qualities, needs, and opportunities of cities, regions, developments, and communities.
• Develop City/Infrastructure based digital strategies and identify services that can create value for stakeholders.
• Support the planning, design, and implementation of smart city services and digital infrastructure.
• Apply user centered design and advanced techniques to real world challenges.
• Present findings and recommendations through clear written outputs, visualisations, infographics, or dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineers, urban designers, planners, clients, city stakeholders, and industry professionals.
• Build client and internal relationships, share knowledge, and contribute to good practice and digital awareness.

Here's what you'll need

• Degree qualified
• Experience delivering strategies and projects for cities, regions, developments, and communities to help harness the potential of digital technologies.
• Experience of working with national or local government bodies and/or with property and infrastructure companies
• Analytical and Numerical skills are a strong advantage
• Expertise in both relevant technologies (such as 4G/5G communications, IoT, big data/analytics) and their business, social and economic impact
• Excellent communication, including both oral and written English
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience and knowledge of digital master planning and related themes such as sustainability and climate change
• Experience working with planners, urban designers, and other built environment design disciplines
• Experience of networking and ability to build client relationships

AtJacobs we value people. Having the right balance of belonging, career and lifestyle enables us to consistently deliver and exceed clients’ expectations.

Working alongside industry leaders, you will have the opportunity to develop your career working on key projects in an environment which encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. To support your professional growth, Jacobs flexible working arrangements, extended leave options and a host of social, health and wellbeing events and initiatives will underpin our commitment to you.

At Jacobs it’s all about what you do, not where you are, which counts!

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.