Principal Consultant - Smart Cities

Your impact

We are looking for a Principal Consultant for Smart Cities 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.

You will be tasked with leading projects, often alongside wider infrastructure teams, to help deliver a diverse range of outcomes for our clients across the Smart City project lifecycle – from strategy and vision setting, to business case and operating model considerations.

You will help us share knowledge and build new working winning opportunities, you will also be called upon to help colleagues develop their digital awareness.

The selected candidate must have an excellent team-player attitude, with the ability to consistently demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, mutual respect and accountability to others. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other. To thrive in this role, you’ll be self-motivated, inquisitive, and willing to challenge established practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead smart cities and digital transformation projects across cities, regions, and developments, working alongside wider infrastructure teams to deliver client outcomes.
• Advise clients across the smart city project lifecycle, from strategy and vision setting through to business case development and operating model design.
• Oversee project activities and technical delivery, applying agile methodologies and managing stakeholder expectations, project risks, and delivery requirements.
• Develop solutions that apply technologies such as IoT, 4G/5G communications, and data analytics, considering their business, social, and economic impacts.
• Integrate digital priorities into masterplanning, infrastructure, and building design stages, alongside related themes such as sustainability and climate change.
• Collaborate with planners, urban designers, and other built environment professionals to develop coordinated, place-based solutions.
• Understanding urban digital twins, GIS, spatial data, and how they support planning and operations.
• Ability to shape connected data environments, integrate information across city systems, and consider open standards and vendor interoperability.
• Ability to consider security, privacy, data ownership, and responsible data use in connected infrastructure.
• Lead communication with client stakeholders, build trusted relationships, and represent the project team with professionalism and accountability.
• Contribute to business development through proposal writing, development of commercial propositions, and identification of new client opportunities.
• Share knowledge, support colleagues in developing their digital awareness, and challenge established practices to improve outcomes.
• Developing propositions, contributing to bids, and working with public and private partners.