Head of Technology & Innovation

Role Summary

Drive technology foresight innovation and incubation activities that strengthen future competitiveness and enable differentiated capabilities and offerings. The role converts emerging technology developments into pragmatic business opportunities working across the enterprise and external ecosystem to move promising ideas from insight to scalable adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Foresight & Strategic Direction

• Establish and continuously refresh technology roadmaps aligned to business strategy growth priorities and client needs.
• Monitor emerging technologies AI engineering cloud data automation and digital transformation trends; translate implications into clear strategic choices.
• Provide executive leadership with concise technology assessments opportunity theses and recommendations on build buy partner or incubate decisions.
• Identify technology discontinuities competitive threats and adjacent opportunities that can materially influence future market positioning.

Innovation Portfolio & Incubation

• Design and lead an innovation pipeline that captures ideas prioritizes investments validates concepts and advances viable initiatives through defined stage gates.
• Incubate new capabilities accelerators platforms and technology-led offerings from concept through pilot proof of value and transition to business ownership.
• Set success criteria resourcing needs risk controls and commercialization pathways for innovation initiatives.
• Create a disciplined innovation operating model that balances exploration with measurable business impact and speed to market.

Capability & Offering Development

• Partner with business delivery sales and solutioning leaders to convert validated concepts into differentiated capabilities and client-ready offerings.
• Define reusable assets reference architectures methods and talent requirements needed to scale new capabilities.
• Support portfolio decisions by identifying where technology investments create a distinctive right to win.
• Champion adoption of new offerings internally and ensure feedback from clients and delivery teams informs their evolution.

Ecosystem & Thought Leadership

• Build purposeful relationships with startups academia hyperscalers technology providers and specialist partners to broaden innovation capacity.
• Lead technology scouting joint exploration and co-innovation activities with priority ecosystem partners.
• Represent in relevant technology forums and strengthen its credibility as a forward-looking AI engineering and digital partner.
• Foster a culture of curiosity experimentation knowledge sharing and responsible innovation across the organization

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in technology innovation engineering AI digital transformation or a closely related field.
• Strong understanding of emerging technologies and the ability to assess their technical commercial and operational relevance.
• Demonstrated experience incubating new capabilities offerings products or technology initiatives through to business adoption.
• Ability to translate technology trends into compelling business cases investment priorities and actionable roadmaps.
• Established ecosystem engagement across startups academia hyperscalers and technology providers.
• Strong executive communication influence stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strategic technology leader who combines external foresight with practical delivery discipline.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity testing hypotheses and making informed investment trade-offs.
• Commercially minded collaborative and able to connect technical possibilities with client and business value.
• Credible advisor to senior leaders and an energizing sponsor of innovation teams.

Qualifications :

B.E/BTech M.E/MTech MBA

Additional Information :

15- 20 years of experience

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time