Hiring
Digital Science Associate
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to lead the delivery of your projects to production, scanning the horizon to identify emerging Digital Technology trends, new products, and solutions potentially relevant to solve key challenges from roadmaps, and assessing potential vendors. Proactively identify impactful opportunities and autonomously complete activities.
Salary
: INR 15,00,000 - 30,00,000 / year
Responsibilities
- Be a bridge between business and digital organizations, combining in-depth understanding of both areas.
- Develop others by mentoring Digital Science Associates, and proactively sharing expertise and interests with others.
- Develop and nurture external relationships for long term collaboration
- Demonstrate recognizing value/benefit of technology in adjacent business areas.
- Lead the identification of digital technologies that can address specific business challenges. Active research work to prove (or disprove) viability or potential value of a technology (i.e. solving a key business problem).
- Summarize the learning gained from implementing projects, and communicate to others in the team.
- Support identification opportunities for new intellectual property, and engage in the processes needed to protect these for the benefit of the company. Apply IAM & Commercial rigour to projects.
- Develop as an expert in two or more technology areas including Quantum, trust tech and sensing. Acts as a knowledge transfer agent to the wider community with demonstrable thought leadership pieces of work: Papers/etc.
- Collaborate with government labs, academic institutions and research firms, consortia for joint projects.
Eligibility
- A degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (or equivalent), preferably with a background in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Experience which demonstrates how you have applied your knowledge of emerging technology in a practical context; this could be in a development role or guiding the way technology is built (e.g. a software company) or helping with adoption (e.g. an enterprise digital role).
- Experience in a digital space, ideally energy sector, developing applications of novel digital technologies - research, scanning and testing of new technologies. Demonstrable work product in terms of papers, test results, etc.
- Be a self-starter who is comfortable defining an approach to deliver project goals and changing the approach as new information becomes available.
- Sound understanding of emerging digital technology ecosystems. Curiosity and an ability to creatively link diverse topics. Growing technological expertise in innovative digital areas such as computing/quantum, sensing, trust tech.
- Ability to provide leadership on specific elements of a project and lead a sub team(s).
- Ability to manage contracting and intellectual asset management issues which impact individual projects.
- Understanding of management risk associated with new technologies
- Ability to build productive working relationships and foster creativity, innovation and integrity within teams
- Provide technical clarity and business direction to senior management and be able to flex communication style to best suit the audience.
(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Scout's clients)
Skills: project,leadership,research
