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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced Ticketing Expert to join team for a major rail project in the UAE. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, design review, and independent assurance for all aspects of Automated Fare Collection (AFC) and ticketing systems, ensuring compliance with project specifications, operational requirements, and international standards.

The role focuses on design review, system integration oversight, contractor monitoring, and operational readiness, ensuring the ticketing systems are secure, reliable, user-friendly, and fully integrated with other rail systems such as the OCC, signaling, and rolling stock.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide technical expertise and independent assurance for AFC and ticketing systems, including fare collection devices, smart cards, mobile ticketing, contactless payments, and back-office systems.

• Review and approve contractor design submissions, specifications, system architecture, and operational workflows to ensure compliance with project and operational requirements.

• Ensure ticketing system designs and implementation meet project, safety, regulatory, and operational requirements, and align with international standards.

• Evaluate contractor implementation, testing, and commissioning plans, ensuring reliability, security, and performance of the ticketing systems.

• Assess integration with OCC, signaling, telecommunication, revenue management, and operational systems.

• Participate in design review workshops, coordination meetings, and interface management sessions as the AFC and ticketing SME.

• Provide recommendations for risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and performance optimization for AFC systems.

• Support handover, operational readiness, and certification processes for ticketing systems.

• Prepare technical reports, dashboards, and recommendations for senior management and the Client regarding system compliance and performance.

• Mentor PMC team members on AFC and ticketing system design, integration, and best practices.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline.

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in railway AFC, ticketing systems.

• Proven expertise in automated fare collection, smart ticketing, contactless payments, and back-office revenue management systems.

• Strong knowledge of systems integration, cybersecurity, operational performance, and reliability standards for rail ticketing.

• Familiarity with international rail AFC standards

• Experience coordinating interfaces between AFC, OCC, signaling, telecom, and rolling stock systems.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Proficiency in design and review tools such as AutoCAD, system modeling, or specialized AFC software.

• Previous experience on UAE or GCC rail projects is highly desirable.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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