Director of Emerging Technologies

Director of Emerging Technologies
Blue chip salary and benefits
East Anglia

UK's leading research and strategy company are looking for an experienced strategy and planning leader to frame an exciting technology research strategy over 3-5 years in emerging fields in ICT domain. The successful candidate will be responsible to investigate, formulate, plan, communicate, coordinate, implement and continuously keep the strategy fresh and exciting! the technologies being explored are

*Cloud - Data Center - IaaS
*Big Data - Infrastructure, AI, Data Organization and Management, Analytics,
*Mobile - Mobile Data, IOT, Robotics

Responsibilities:
*Analyse emerging technology opportunities
*Create a well defined strategy around them for recommending future investment in research
*Propose new technology charters for research
*Align long term vision with both long term and short term technology strategy
*Convince management to adopt the vision and accelerate execution
*Explore and maintain long term strategic partnership.

Requirements:
*Previous experience in strategy, technology research (15+ years)
*5+ years experience in cloud and data center infrastructure
*Preferable 5+ work experience in or providing solutions for vertical industries, e.g. Finance, Government, Transportation, Energy etc
*Ability to initiate, lead new ideas and initiatives in collaboration.
*Strong networking skills
*Excellent Communication skills - Presentation, oral and writing skills

key words - Director, Research, Strategy, Cloud, Data Centre, Big Data, Mobility, IoT, Robotics, East Anglia, Cambridge,