Chief Technologist

Chief Technologist (Networking)

Location: UK - Mobile England Job-ID: 210317 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team

The Chief Technologist provides real world experience and insight to support and promote the relevance of Computacenter to our customers and partners within the marketplace. The ideal candidate will have had a successful career and be a credible and highly engaged member of our UK sales teams.

The role is pivotal in bridging the gap between industry problems and technology solutions, and as such will form a key part of our Office of the CTO (OCTO) function within the UK Business. With the successful person being integral to shaping the direction of our offerings and strategies through country and service line constructs.

What you'll do

1. Primary Technologist for the Solution Area across the UK business, responsible for customer evangelism of the respective solution area.
2. Builds and maintains ongoing relationships with customer peers within key customers.
3. Engages with customers at the earliest stage of the opportunity cycle to position Computacenter perspective and capabilities - establishing trust and early mindshare with key technical decision makers.
4. Defines and shapes the UK strategic point of view for a Solution Area.
5. Supports UK Solution Area sales teams and Solution Area Directors in formalisation of relevant GTM strategies and campaigns.
6. Develops a programme of Thought Leadership for Solution Area, engaging and aligning with peers to drive wider alignment.
7. Engages and collaborates with internal departments and colleagues to share OCTO and UK Business strategy.
8. Supports the development process executed with the Service Lines with continual coaching, feedback and review of assets to ensure they align to the strategic direction and desired outcomes.
9. Engages and builds relationships with key Technology partners, understanding propositions and GTM and driving alignment and common goals.
10. Solution Area technology strategy and roadmap.
11. Technology radar.
12. Thought Leadership - Blogs/papers.
13. Customer specific deliverables (as required).
14. Technology and Services Vendor and market analysis (as required).
15. Partner support plans - strategic and incubation.

What you'll need

1. Experience of building relationships at the highest levels with enterprise customers, becoming a trusted advisor on a technology basis.
2. Knowledge of, and experience in, large-scale transformational programmes.
3. Demonstrable experience in having previously identified and led cross working party initiatives through discovery, selection, implementation, and continuous review to assure customer satisfaction.
4. Commercially astute with experience of deal/solution governance processes.
5. Ability to communicate well, including presenting to an external audience, both business and technical.
6. Good people management, including the ability to lead large virtual teams across own and 3rd party organisations.
7. Proven ability to produce documentation for a business and technical audience.
8. Good problem determination and analysis skills.
9. Strong team player with energy and dynamism.
10. Personal flexibility & willingness to travel.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 20,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers' infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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