IVL is setting up a Center of Innovation (The name may change) and is looking for a Senior Manager, who is passionate about emerging Technologies, Science and Maths and apply this knowledge to solve business problems through continuous innovation.

The ideal candidate would have experience with Ai, ML, Data Engineering, Cloud technologies, Blockchain, Robotics and UX. The person would be mentoring and coaching Campus recruits to build next generation engineers, who would be delivering futuristic technology solutions, productionalizing the PoCs to reality.

This position will be reporting into MDs office and has high visibility across the organization and the client world.

Job Responsibilities

• Conducting Design Thinking led innovation workshops
• Guiding clients to continually maintain a healthy pipeline of innovative ideas
• Delivering working prototypes for selected ideas
• Maintaining optimum user experience in the solutions
• Recruitment and Career Management of a highly capable team
• Building Campus connects with top universities and bringing in the top talent
• Meeting the Financial Targets set for the Center
• Formulates effective new ideas and innovative strategies for product development, Solutions for Client's business problems, marketing, branding, or business opportunities.
• Recognizes promising ideas and finds ways to introduce them into the company’s future plans and discards ideas that are ineffective,
• White papers, Innovation Articles to be submitted for publications
• Conducting meetups and participating in Technical Events to demonstrate emerging technology trends and showcasing the work done under Center of Innovation
• Develop innovation culture across project teams, using the team and evangelizing the emerging tech and it's application to real world

Requirements

• Experience and understanding of a service environment
• Proactive and able to work according to strategic direction.
• Significant experience in management, prioritisation, balancing competing demands and delivering in line with objectives and quality 
• Technical acumen, solid communication skills and the ability to analyse and relay trends in the market to teams across their organization.
• Creative and visionary, with the ability to see opportunities and the business acumen to shepherd ideas from the visionary stage through to production
• Hands on programming experience with Python, Java, C++, IoT, AWS,
• Knowledge of Blockchain and practical applicability of the technology
• 5+ years of experience with Data Engineering and how data can be used for business decisions and predictive solutions
• 2+ years experience with Deep Learning
• 1+ Years of experience with AWS
• 2+ Years of experience with UX
• Exposure to Drone Tech will be nice to have
• 2+ years of experience with NLP
• 2+ Years of experience with Image processing and image recognition technologies
• Knowledge of Robotics and how Ai-ML can be integrated with Robotics

This position will require the individual to be patient and have a research mind set. The role will require the individual to be very pro-active with developing technology solutions and proof of concepts, which can be taken to the prospects and the clients.