Senior Manager - Virtual City - CDU-018

Role Specific Requirements

The Senior Manager – Digital Asset Compliance is a key member of Design Excellence vertical of the Central Development Unit (CDU) . CDU acts as a center of excellence, setting standards and driving consistency across complex development projects by providing tools and processes for best practice delivery.

• Design Excellence ensures projects embody “Qiddiya-ness” by creating standardized measures of design quality across the program.

Our Virtual City team is the custodian of the Qiddiya City Unreal Engine, providing real-time visualization, simulation, and collaboration by linking our GIS, BIM and IMS data to strategically guide Development decision-making.

The role of Senior Manager is dedicated to the technical oversight and quality control of our virtual City’s digital assets built in Unreal Engine. A role that requires deep technical expertise and attention to detail.

Core responsibilities

• Champions QIC's "Safety First" value, specifically confident in enacting ‘Stop Work’ authority, engage in relevant health/safety/wellbeing standards and behaviors.
• Role models leadership behaviors, in line with the Qiddiya Values, at all times.
• Motivates and inspires a high-performance culture through clear direction, providing continuous feedback, recognizing and rewarding exceptional performance and fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation and accountability.
• Ensures that all digital models – integrating BIM, GIS and engineering data – comply with technical standards and file structures.
• Maintains technical excellence and streamlines workflows for digital asset management across the Qiddiya program.
• Oversees and maintains the quality and structure of digital models and assets in unreal Engine.
• Develops, implements, and enforces technical standards for digital modeling, ensuring compliance across all digital assets.
• Monitors and evaluates the quality of models updates from external consultants and designers.
• Establishes and maintains robust file structure, workflows, and documentation to support technical compliance.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to digital assets integration and modeling.
• Continuously assesses and improves technical workflow to enhance the integrity of the digital models.
• Implements and executes best practices for assets compliance and digital data management.
• Values & Behaviors
• Safety
• Prioritize wellbeing
• Address challenges directly
• Take responsibility for safety
• Correct unsafe practices
• Learn from mistakes to continuously improve
• Hold each other accountable with support and care
• Integrity
• Communicate truthfully and straightforwardly
• Keep commitments and fulfill promises
• Respect others' rights, dignity, and opinions
• Uphold high professional standards
• Innovation
• Encourage innovation with an open, nimble approach
• Maintain a curious mindset
• Eager to learn and improve
• Think creatively beyond conventions
• Continuously seek ways to enhance performance
• Collaboration
• Open, honest engagement with all stakeholders
• Frequent, respectful, transparent communication
• Celebrate successes
• Collaboratively resolve issues
• Inclusion
• Respect diverse cultures
• Listen to different perspectives
• Maintain an open mindset to diverse ideas and information
• Build and engage diverse teams equitably and fairly
• Treat everyone with respect and equality
• Quality
• Ask direct, rational questions
• Speak relevantly for the audience
• Be a team player, share knowledge
• Uncompromising quality standards

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Game development, Digital Media, or related field, master’s degree would be an advantage.
• Professional Certifications (if required)
• Professional registration in the respective discipline (or similar – i.e. Chartered Engineer) would be an advantage
• Experience
• · Minimum 7 years of proven work experience in developing real time 3D applications in unreal engine and/or other virtual production pipelines.
• · Experience with quality control protocols and technical troubleshooting in digital assets management ensuring high standards of digital model integrity.
• · Strong background in BIM, GIS, and the management of complex digital assets structures.
• · Demonstrated ability to set up and maintain technical workflows, file structures, and compliance documentation.
• · Proficiency in Unreal Engine with extensive experience in digital modeling in architectural visualization field.
• · Previous KSA/Middle East experience preferred
• · Supports team through periods of business change.
• · Leverage exceptional written and verbal skills in English – articulate ideas, strategies, and project performance to a range of audiences and to influence at senior levels.
• · Leverage in-depth knowledge of enterprise-level digital design solutions and applications.