Technology Consultant, Advanced Communication Technologies - Plexal (City) Ltd
Software Engineer
The Role's Purpose What You'll Do Your Skills Your Experience
About the role
The Role's Purpose
What You'll Do
S hape insights about the future of advanced communications and related emerging technology sectors.
Design and deliver research and consulting activity for clients, including scoping questions, applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies, interpreting results and presenting findings through impactful reports and presentations.
Create high-impact deliverables that help clients make decisions on advanced communications and emerging technology strategy .
Monitor technology trends, market needs and wider drivers across telecommunications, RF systems, satellite communications, free-space optics, secure communications, spectrum and network resilience.
Assess technology propositions, interrogate vendor claims and evaluate robustness, risks, opportunities and trade-offs with appropriate technical rigour .
Help clients engage effectively with the emerging technology ecosystem, including startups, scaleups, researchers, corporate partners and public-sector stakeholders.
Support the design and delivery of innovation programmes, challenge-led activity, pilots and practical technology evaluation.
Manage inputs across several workstreams, maintaining high standards of delivery, documentation and stakeholder communication.
Proactively manage regular interaction, communication and collaboration with external stakeholders.
Support business development by contributing to public-sector bids and bespoke client proposals.
Your Skills
Highly organised with a good understanding of innovation, collaboration and project management practices, tools and methodologies.
Research and analysis skills, including analytical reasoning, methodological thinking and the ability to frame ambiguous problems.
Good understanding of advanced communications across consumer, enterprise, government or defence applications.
Ability to interrogate vendor claims and assess technology robustness, risks and trade-offs.
Ability to translate technical concepts, risks and opportunities for audiences ranging from senior leaders to technical specialists.
A structured, concise communicator able to produce high-quality reports, recommendations and presentations for senior external audiences.
Ability to work proactively, planning and organising own work with reference to relevant strategies, policies, processes and protocols.
Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
Your Experience
Experience in at least one of the following (multiple preferable): an innovation function, consultancy, technology startup or scaleup, research organisation, telecommunications business, defence technology organisation or accelerator.