Chief Technology Officer/Technology Leader - Dubai

Our client has an opportunity for a Chief Technology Officer/Technology Leader who will play a key role in setting and delivering the technical and innovation goals of our business as we evolve and grow to meet the challenges of the burgeoning Energy Transition - whilst providing stewardship and maintaining certainty for our established clients, their activities and market sectors.

Your Tasks

• Reporting to the Managing Director and part of the Executive Committee, the position is to be (ideally) located in Dubai, due to its central location and the large client concentration;
• The CTO/Technology Leader will work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for technology innovation, development and management;
• Define the company’s overall technology strategy to support business objectives;
• Oversee data security, management and governance;
• Manage strategic technology partner relationships;
• Identify and assess potential targets for acquisition;
• Strengthen and expand the company portfolio of process technologies/solutions targeting the energy industry and the transition to clean energy;
• Lead new development and improvement efforts across organization technologies/solutions;
• Be the repository of the company’s core process design knowledge, return of experience and spearhead innovation and dissemination;
• Protect company technical knowledge and expertise via patents, secrecy and/or controlled access to critical information;
• Lead Pilot and Demonstration units’ initiatives;
• Technical Leader for Consulting projects (feasibility studies, pre-FEED) involving new technologies and complex process schemes;
• Support Proposals Managers and Sales teams in taking ‘new technology’ offerings to the market with the objective of creating and occupying a ‘niche’;
• Ensure close collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between market needs and technology strategies;
• Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technological developments;
• Provide advice and direction on ‘Technology Risk’ on complex or novel processes;
• Continuously improve Company design tools, systems (including Software Simulations) Procedures and Design Guidelines to best meet the needs of the business;
• Provide technology training and mentoring to technical staff;
• Adapt the product portfolio to the market changes and opportunities;
• Increase competitiveness and/or differentiation of products/technologies through innovation & improvement;
• Monitor industry innovations and improvements in the old and new Energy landscape and assess their impact on technologies/solutions;
• Establish dialogue with key client technologists to identify process improvements and new business opportunities as identified by their own operations;
• Participate in project model reviews focusing on optimizing process designs when requested;
• Participate in troubleshooting underperforming systems to identify improvement solutions;
• Be responsible for the collection and analyses of equipment performance data leading to product optimization;
• Provide leadership and support of Health, Safety & Environment culture and values.

• Science or Engineering Degree with minimum of 20 years conventional and/or renewable energy industry or related industry experience;
• Strong skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams;
• Creative and Innovation driven;
• Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude;
• Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals;
• Strong communication with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.

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