Job description
Role Overview
Smart City IT Lead Consultant at JLL, based on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. You will lead the review and enhancement of citywide enterprise architecture, prioritizing capability design before individual applications or systems, and act as a critical interface between strategic technology vision and delivery reality.
Company Overview
JLL is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. The organization empowers its people to shape the future of real estate by combining world-class services, advisory, and technology for clients, committed to hiring talented people and enabling them to build meaningful careers.
Role Purpose
To lead enterprise and citywide architecture design and assessment across multi-stakeholder, multi-vendor environments, ensuring alignment of strategic technology vision with delivery reality across enterprise IT, smart city platforms, and programme stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Design & Assessment
- Lead the design and assessment of enterprise and citywide architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF-aligned), focusing on capability modeling, operating models, integration patterns, and long-term scalability before system selection
- Define and evaluate integration architectures across IT systems, data platforms, digital twins, command and control environments, and line-of-business applications, including point-to-point and centralized integration patterns
- Map and optimize business processes to technology capability stacks
Governance & Strategy
- Establish architectural governance principles and review mechanisms across CIO, smart city, and delivery functions
- Facilitate technical decision-making grounded in business value and risk mitigation
Stakeholder Management
- Act as senior stakeholder interface, translating between enterprise IT, smart city strategy teams, construction delivery leadership, and master systems integrators
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or IT strategy roles within large-scale city/government programmes or complex corporate environments
- Proven track record designing and implementing enterprise architecture frameworks in multi-stakeholder, multi-vendor environments
- Deep expertise in capability-based planning, enterprise integration patterns, and architectural governance
- Strong knowledge of smart city technology domains including IoT platforms, data architectures, digital twins, and urban operating systems
- Experience with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to work at the intersection of business strategy and technical delivery
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline
Skills & Competencies
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior technical and business leaders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with ability to navigate complex technical and organizational landscapes
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of architecture documentation, technical reports, and executive presentations
Additional Information
- Professional certifications such as TOGAF, Enterprise Architecture, or equivalent credentials are highly desirable
- JLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities