Senior Digital Transformation Consultant

Senior Digital Transformation Consultant

Full time - Office based

Starting ASAP

Reporting to Head of Digital Transformation

About Us

Cityscape Digital is a leading architectural visualisation studio located on Bermondsey Street in London Bridge. We produce some of the highest quality visuals, interactive, VR and film in the industry, working with the world’s top architects and property developers. We are famed for our inclusive environment and respect for artistry from any creative background, and are always looking for a good fit for our culture.

Company benefits

️ Centrally located office in London Bridge, moments away from mainline and tube stations

Company-funded after-work social events (rooftop film club, pizza workshop, London Zoo lates, etc.)

Private health insurance after successful probation

Free yoga sessions with More Yoga

Cycle to work scheme, with secure cycle storage and showers

Travel card loans after successful probation

Hybrid work environment

️ Pension scheme

☮️ Access to Headspace wellbeing app

Happy Hour on Fridays

️ 20 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing to 23 after 5 years service

Role and responsibilities

• Consultancy Acumen - 20%
• PL & PM - 30%
• Technical/Creative - 30%
• Product Dev - 10%
• Leadership - 10%

As a Senior DT Consultant, your roles and responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Consultancy acumen, Live Facilitation and Client Management
• Facilitate live meetings, development workshops and demos;
• Demonstrate ability to present and perform in front of an audience, keep pace with the discussion to maximise value/insights and hold yourself in the room in front of senior stakeholders;
• Demonstrate and develop consultancy mindset:
• Ability to develop strong client relationships and create opportunities to sell own time to clients on an advisory/consultancy basis;
• Always be an active contributor in the room - identify value points and advise in (whether explicitly requested or not)
• Develop relationships with clients, architects and external parties/future digital collaborators;
• Deploy best practice communication; Our approach is (in order): face-to-face, then phone, then e-mail;
• Support BD activities (MaxQ and Cityscape);

• Production Leadership and Project Management
• Undertake the Production Lead role on Digital Transformation (DT) projects (including ones interfacing with our sister company MaxQ), including:
• Overall responsibility and control of the delivery of the project against the deal agreed with the client and the associated creative proposal; Propose and agree with Project Lead and Art Director how the delivery of the project will be approached;
• Producing and managing the project programme and task allocation based on key milestones and deliverables. Be able to report to Project Lead on state of the project at any time;
• Managing the resourcing and time spend on the project and keep the project performance on track (against agreed day rates); Liaise with Resource Manager to ensure suitable resource is assigned to the appropriate tasks;
• Coordinating the flow of information from external stakeholders (models, drawings and supporting documentation);
• Escalating and resolving with Project Lead any changes impacting project scope (the original deal) and/or project performance;
• Identifying issues and propose solutions, utilising wider department and cross-department expertise where necessary;
• Undertake the Project Manager role on DT projects (including ones interfacing with our sister company MaxQ), including:
• Proactively liaise with external consultants, arranging calls, meetings and reviews to ensure clarity of interpretation of all information exchanged;
• Setting up and coordinating review meetings with clients and senior stakeholders. Capturing and agreeing feedback in a structured manner and actioning against it with the production team and the project programme;
• Handling the project quotations, trackers, appointment documentation, invoicing and internal project performance reporting;

• Industry knowledge, Technical and Creative
• Deploy industry knowledge from past experience in delivering buildings/masterplans as part of the design team; Advise on/research architectural matters as required to support products/services developed and deployed on projects;
• Interrogate, manipulate and export design team information from AEC authoring applications, including Revit, Rhino, Sketchup & 3DS Max:
• Modify Revit models to support project functionality requirements (e.g. model splits) and pipeline processes (e.g. metadata ingestion), utilising edits to phasing, design options, worksets, view settings, view filters, linked models etc, as required;
• Modify Revit/Rhino/Sketchup models received from design team members to extract information to support project objectives (e.g. splitting models and extracting components for workshopping purposes)
• Use AEC authoring applications (Revit/Rhino/Sketchup) to produce content to support projects (e.g. interior and landscape design mockups and optioneering)
• Undertake production tasks for UE 5-based scenes for Live workshopping (including VR) or Applications deployment (in-person presentations, online and on-prem), including good working knowledge of UE scene structures, assets, textures, blueprints and sequences;
• Proactively expanding own technical knowledge in a self-driven manner; Researching methodologies, software and tools and actively seeking to improve skillset (as relevant to the evolving project challenges);
• Actively QA and validate information and be able to address accuracy-based queries on projects (including with regards to external information as well as information produced with our own ecosystem of tools)
• A solid creative base is required although it is noted that the role is more technically focused;
• Seek and initiate artistic critique of own work and take feedback on board;
• Display confidence in own artistic judgement and seek to continuously improve it;

• Productisation, Product Development and Process
• Work closely with Senior Technical Artist on:
• Solution scoping and liaison with UE developer team to ideate and create tools and functionality to support projects;
• Maximising productisation opportunities on all projects;
• Maximising opportunities to grow our library assets when undertaking the Production Lead role on projects; approach all artistic output with a ‘library-first’ attitude;
• Setting up and deploying data pipelines and workflows with regards to converting, positioning, cleaning, organising and coordinating data flow into the project scenes. This includes: 3D models, drawings, images and materials produced by architects, engineers, landscape designers and others as necessary;
• Recording and standardisation of processes across projects & incorporating lessons learned
• Conducting testing, deployment and client support on projects (online and on-prem as relevant)

• Leadership
• Support and mentor more junior employees and/or ones less experienced in the respective areas of production and meeting facilitation
• Senior mindset - adopt and exhibit and independent, proactive, mentoring mindset and method of operation, requiring reduced oversight and line management compared to general production staff;

Essential skills

• Minimum 3-5 years of AEC experience in project delivery covering commercial real estate and residential through RIBA stages 1-5
• Good working knowledge of Revit in practice. Ability to demonstrate working knowledge across various projects and work stages essential;
• Good working knowledge of other 3D modelling packages highly advantageous (Rhino, 3DS Max)
• Knowledge of Grasshopper, Dynamo advantageous
• Good general understanding of RIBA stages, planning/development process and legislative frameworks (offices, residential, building regulations etc)
• Excellent verbal and written communication and senior stakeholder management skills essential
• Knowledge and experience of Unreal Engine 5 advantageous
• Working knowledge of Blueprints highly advantageous

Your PDF CV should be included, applicants without a CV will not be reviewed.

Your PDF portfolio and CV should be sent to recruitment@cityscapedigital.co.uk with the email subject “Senior Digital Transformation Consultant 2024”. We're also open to receiving additional links showcasing your best work, however applications without a PDF portfolio will not be reviewed.