Chief Technology Officer

3 days ago

Woking Surrey, United Kingdom Roke Manor Research Limited Full time


Chief Technology Officer

Reporting to the Business Unit Director as part of the Leadership Team, the Chief Technology Officer is a senior technical leader in the Futures Business Unit and requires a tech-savvy, entrepreneurial mindset to achieve its goals.

Roke’s Futures business unit uses our expertise gathered across many industries to provide rapid, innovative, and secure solutions to our customers' most complex challenges. We operate across the whole lifecycle providing advice, research and development, engineering, design and in-service support for our products and services. We have solutions around Intelligent Sensing, Situational Awareness and Autonomy. We have a strong reputation of selling innovative solutions and services to Rolls Royce for Aerospace inspection and into FTSE 100 companies in Utilities, Mining, and Telecom sectors.

The Chief Technology Officer is accountable for the Futures technology strategy and its implementation, driving the science and technology activities to deliver IP-led growth. This role will lead technical strategies to strengthen Futures as a business and package capabilities into products/services to increase Roke’s market share and build competitive advantage.

This role is responsible for evangelising the technical strength of Roke’s Futures capability to align engineering people, processes and technology to win new business and deliver leading edge capability to meet our business plan.


Key Responsibilities


  • Own definition and implementation of the Futures Technology Strategy.
  • Be the focal point of thought leadership, driving horizon scanning, innovation and ideation into new and existing markets supporting to grow the Roke brand.
  • Drive the ideation to product process for Futures dovetailing requirements, priorities and development into the wider Roke Innovation system by creating strategies to increase IP-led revenue and return on investment.
  • Working with the wider business, the Innovation Director and CTO Forum, to enhance existing products, solutions & IP to keep Futures and Roke at the forefront of the technology curve.
  • Take a leading role in shaping Futures value propositions in terms of solution development, technology strategy and use of partners to win new business.
  • Support business winning alongside Sales Management by speaking at industry events and establishing a Roke presence on relevant advisory boards.
  • Establish a set of technology portfolios which direct the Futures go to market approach supported by clear product & capability roadmaps.
  • Own and develop key technology focused relationships with customers, suppliers, academia and industry.
  • Manage the effectiveness and efficiency of science, technology and engineering processes including adoption of new systems or practices, to ensure Futures stays relevant with market conditions and delivers strategic value for its clients.


Managing People
You will:


  • Be a visible and accessible leader, championing both the business and an inclusive and diverse workforce.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to optimise team effectiveness and performance.
  • Coach and mentor staff across the business, providing feedback through regular 1:1 meetings and team meetings to discuss goals set in line with company strategy.

As a senior technical subject matter expert, the Chief Technology Officer will collaborate across Roke to ensure that strategic planning, product investment and use of technology is coordinated in line with the needs of the Futures Business Unit and the wider business.

Roke's other business units operate across Defence and National Security to defend their people, assets and information, and defeat their adversaries. Roke Futures leverages the expertise and experience from these markets in the Enterprise sectors we serve.

What if you could draw on the innovative skills and expertise of more than 800 tech engineers and consultants with experience across a multitude of industries and disciplines? Think what you could achieve.


Knowledge, Skills & Experience requirements:


  • Very strong problem solver, with an innate desire to further the security and prosperity of the UK.
  • Experience in providing thought leadership and influencing customers on how best to achieve their own goals and strategy.
  • Proven experience of developing business and technical strategies, solution development and delivery.
  • Technically curious, with extensive experience of delivering bespoke technical capability, solutions and services, in a consulting, engineering or products/services business.
  • Strong track record in understanding and applying best practice engineering methods, especially in software, and applying them to deliver effective and efficient project and product delivery.
  • Knowledge of secure Cloud design, deployment, migration and optimisation.
  • Knowledge of networking and commodity consumer devices, and their associated architectures and components.
  • Desirable, but not essential knowledge of radio technologies, data science and Machine Learning.
  • Desirable, but not essential knowledge of the UK National Security market and experience in partnering with or selling through other entities into major programmes.

Where you’ll work

ROMSEY - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.

WOKING - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5 minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

Security
Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.

The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

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