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






