Chief Innovation Officer/Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Engineering Vertical

Job Description Summary

The Role of Chief Innovation Officer & Deputy Chief Technology Officer entails driving overall growth of the Engineering Department through innovation and in line with perceived future business needs of the Organisation.

Competencies & Responsibilities

1. Adopt a hybrid approach by working with external 3rd party development partners while continuing to build, develop and motivate the in-house R&D team

2. Convert Business Goals and Vision into technology roadmap, requirements and eventually solutions

3. Responsible for Innovations - Discover 3rd party offerings as well as implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage

4. Overall responsibility of continually evolving existing solutions

5. Build quality assurance and data protection processes

6. Build domain verticals that ensure growth of Engineering sub-groups

Professional Qualities :

Technical Skills :

1. Deep knowledge of technological trends to shape and build a strategy for the future roadmap

2. Ability to conduct technological analyses and research

3. Understanding of front-end and back-end technology stacks for digital applications

4. Grasp of Transaction processing, Enterprise platforms, BI tools, Data Science including Big Data processing, Predictive Analytics, Machine learning & Image Processing

5. Understanding of Embedded technologies for solution / product development