Strategy Manager / Senior Manager Ernst & Young AE

Your key responsibilities

• As a Smart City Solution Architect, you will collaborate with strategy teams to identify and prioritize use cases, translating business objectives into actionable technology solutions.
• You will lead the design of end-to-end architectures across application, data, integration, IoT, and infrastructure layers, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Your role includes engaging with client stakeholders to assess existing systems, conducting vendor assessments, and preparing solution blueprints and technical deliverables.
• You will also support pilot deployments, stay current on emerging technologies, contribute to proposals and presentations, and mentor junior consultants to build internal capabilities.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields from a top-ranking university.
• At least 6-8 years of experience in IT or digital solution architecture, with at least 3-5 years in smart cities, districts, urban innovation, or related domains.
• Demonstrated experience designing solutions across multiple smart city domains (e.g. mobility, utilities, security, environment, energy)
• Strong knowledge of smart city and IoT platforms, AI/ML, digital twin, cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP), data integration, analytics, and urban ICT infrastructure
• Familiarity with smart city frameworks (e.g. ISO 37120/37122/37123, ITU-T standards) and urban technology ecosystems
• Strong track record in architecting complex, multi-vendor urban technology ecosystems or public infrastructure platforms
• Proficiency in the English and Arabic language, including the ability to listen, understand, read and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, in a professional environment.
• Effective organization, time management and problem-solving skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines.
• Willingness and ability to travel within the MENA region, when necessary (approximately 25-50% of time).

Ideally, you ll also have:

• Masters degree from a top tier engineering school.
• Certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/AWS Architect, or Smart Cities Practitioner
• Prior strategy consulting or in-house strategy experience with a particular focus on client advisory or strategic planning within a professional services or similar environment.
• Excellent presentation, stakeholder management, problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Full fluency in Arabic, both written and spoken.

What we look for

We are interested in highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.