Principal Transport Modelling & Solutions (m/f/d)

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PTV MENA Region DMCC

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Fulltime

PTV Group. Empowering mobility as part of Umovity.

At PTV, we work together to make a real difference — every single day.

You can share your ideas, take on responsibility, and work with passionate colleagues to develop pioneering solutions that make tomorrow’s mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Our culture is built on trust, creativity, and teamwork — because we believe that the best ideas emerge when people feel empowered to share and grow.

Technology and expertise are the foundations of our success — but it’s our team spirit and the way we value one another that truly set us apart.

PTV Professional Services MENA delivers complex transport modelling, mobility planning and decision-support projects across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East region.

We are seeking a Principal Transport Modelling & Mobility Solutions (m/f/d) to provide technical leadership across our regional portfolio. The successful candidate (m/f/d) will lead the translation of client policy, planning and operational requirements into robust modelling methodologies, integrated mobility solutions and decision-ready insights leveraging current and upcoming PTV software technologies.

The primary responsibility of the role is to direct the technical development, estimation and delivery of transport modelling projects, ensuring the highest standards of quality, timely execution and client satisfaction, while maintaining strict budget control and overall project profitability.

This is not a conventional Principal Modeller (m/f/d) position focused solely on model development and review. The role requires the ability to bridge transport modelling with data engineering, automation, GIS, APIs and emerging AI-enabled capabilities, creating scalable, repeatable and integrated decision-making workflows aligned with PTV's strategic vision.

As part of the global PTV Professional Services team, the Principal Transport Modelling & Solutions (m/f/d) will work closely with regional clients, PTV product and engineering teams, international PTV offices, partners and specialist consultants to shape the future of mobility solutions across the region.

What you move with us

1. Technical leadership and solution design

• Lead the technical design of complex strategic, multimodal and operational transport modelling assignments.
• Translate client planning, policy and operational questions into appropriate modelling methods, scenarios, KPIs and analytical requirements.
• Define how transport models, data, GIS, automation and reporting components should operate as an integrated solution.
• Ensure that proposed solutions are proportionate, technically defensible and aligned with the decision being supported.
• Direct the technical development, estimation and delivery of transport modelling projects

1. Modelling governance and assurance

• Define modelling methodologies, assumptions, calibration and validation requirements, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Lead technical reviews and confirm that models, forecasts and analytical outputs are fit for their intended purpose.
• Review critical model changes, scenarios, forecasts and technical conclusions.
• Maintain appropriate separation between model development, technical review and final approval.

1. Decision support and interpretation

• Interpret modelling results, behavioural responses and network impacts.
• Translate technical analysis into clear implications, options and recommendations.
• Ensure that project outputs directly address the client’s strategic, regulatory or operational decision.
• Present complex methods and findings to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

1. Integrated and technology-enabled delivery

• Shape workflows connecting different PTV products, GIS, databases, and other relevant systems.
• Support the development of repeatable scenario-generation, analysis, review and reporting processes.
• Define functional requirements for automation, APIs and model-integration activities.
• Work with product, engineering and data specialists to apply emerging platform and AI-enabled capabilities to client requirements.
• Identify opportunities to convert recurring consulting activities into scalable and reusable workflows.

1. Project and team leadership

• Provide technical direction to senior and early-career team members.
• Support technical work planning, effort estimation, resource definition and risk management.
• Coordinate specialist support from other PTV teams, partners and subconsultants.

Mentor team members and support their progression across modelling, automation, data and client-facing competencies.

1. Client and business support

• Lead technical discussions and solution-definition workshops with clients and partners.
• Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, methodologies, technical clarifications and effort estimates.

What you bring to the team

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in transport planning, civil or transportation engineering, mathematics, data science, geography or a related discipline. A relevant postgraduate degree is advantageous.
• Typically 12 or more years of relevant professional experience, including leadership of complex transport modelling or mobility-planning assignments.
• Strong experience in strategic and multimodal transport modelling, including demand forecasting, assignment, calibration, validation and scenario testing.
• Advanced knowledge of PTV Visum platform at development level is required.
• Experience reviewing and assuring the work of other transport modellers.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical analysis into client-facing conclusions and recommendations.
• Experience developing methodologies, technical scopes, proposals and resource estimates.
• Strong written, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience mentoring and providing technical direction to multidisciplinary teams.

Equivalent capability and relevant project leadership experience may be considered where the candidate does not precisely match the indicative number of years.

Technical Capabilities and Desirable Skills

The successful candidate should demonstrate strong capability across several of the following areas:

• Strategic and multimodal transport model architecture.
• Calibration, validation and realism testing of strategic transport demand models.
• Transport policy, infrastructure and service-planning assessment.
• Scenario design, forecasting and sensitivity analysis.
• GIS and spatial-data integration.
• Data management and analytical workflows.
• Automation and model integration.
• Python, SQL, REST APIs or comparable technologies at a level sufficient to define and review solutions.
• Statistical, predictive and machine-learning concepts relevant to transport applications.
• Data Science

Similarly, experience in one or more of the following would be beneficial:

• Major transport modelling or planning programs in the UAE, Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC.
• Public transport planning and network development.
• Freight and logistics modelling.
• Activity-based or tour-based demand models.
• PTV Vissim, PTV Vistro, PTV Hub or PTV Flows.
• Traffic operations, congestion management or roadworks assessment.
• Real-time data, predictive analytics or digital-twin applications.
• Model automation, cloud execution or API-enabled workflows.
• Regulatory, statutory or audit-ready transport submissions.
• Product implementation, customer migration or software-enabled consultancy.
• Work within a specialist transport consultancy, transport authority or mobility-software organisation.

Personal attributes

We are looking for someone who:

• Combines strong technical judgment with a clear understanding of client decisions.
• Can move comfortably between strategic solution design and detailed technical review.
• Challenges assumptions and conclusions constructively.
• Communicates complex issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Balances quality, proportionality and delivery practicality.
• Is comfortable working within a small, agile and multidisciplinary team.
• Shares knowledge and actively develops colleagues.
• Can collaborate effectively across regional, global, product and engineering teams.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness without compromising technical integrity.

What’s waiting for you

• A unique opportunity to combine transport consultancy with business development.
• Extensive training in PTV software, mobility solutions and commercial skills.
• Flexible working hours.
• Attractive remuneration package and benefits.
• Excellent opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• The opportunity to work with some of the most innovative transport organisations.

What else you should know

• Company: PTV MENA REGION FZCO
• Contract type: Permanent contract with a 40-hour working week
• Location: UAE, Dubai

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Steffen Göckel

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Senior HR Business Partner

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+49 721 9651-7137