Digital Twin Tech Architect & Real-Time Lead

Globant; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Globant seeks an experienced Technical Director to bridge traditional architectural workflows, real-time visualization, and enterprise data management. You will drive the development of large-scale Digital Twin environments and lead cross-team collaborations across BIM, real-time engines, and data engineering.

The ideal candidate brings BIM mastery, hands-on Unreal Engine or Unity expertise, and a proven ability to scale massive datasets while optimizing performance.

Qualifications

• Deep technical understanding of BIM software, workflows, and data structures (Revit, IFC, Navisworks).
• Hands-on experience developing real-time interactive applications using Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Understanding of data lake concepts, enterprise data pipelines, ingestion, and querying datasets.
• Experience optimizing large-scale 3D scenes and ensuring runtime performance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with cross-team stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate architectural models and spatial data into real-time Digital Twin platforms.
• Lead real-time visualization implementations with Unreal/Unity; set optimization standards.
• Oversee spatial data architecture, pipelines, and BIM metadata integration.
• Manage large multi-layer datasets, balance LOD and memory for performance.
• Advise on pipelines, bottlenecks, and best production practices.
• Implement security and data-access controls across Digital Twin ecosystems.

Skills

Architecture & BIM

Real-Time Engines

Data Management & Architecture

Large-Scale Performance Management

Communication & Technical Leadership

Education

BIM software expertise (Revit, IFC, Navisworks)

Data lakes / pipelines

UE4/UE5 or Unity experience

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

Globant seeks an experienced Technical Director to bridge traditional architectural workflows, real-time visualization, and enterprise data management. You will drive the development of large-scale Digital Twin environments and lead cross-team collaborations across BIM, real-time engines, and data engineering.

The ideal candidate brings BIM mastery, hands-on Unreal Engine or Unity expertise, and a proven ability to scale massive datasets while optimizing performance.