Chief Technology Officer

• Identify and evaluate emerging opportunities in ML/AI, edge computing, and adjacent technologies
• Conceptualize, prototype, and validate innovative solutions—moving fast from question to proof of concept
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, standards bodies, and competitive innovation
• Build and architect real solution prototypes, not just advise on them—coding, validating, and documenting as needed
• Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to turn validated ideas into production-ready features
• Contribute directly to solution delivery through prototyping, testing, and technical demonstrations
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying and fixing technical and architectural bottlenecks
• Engage customers, partners, and prospects to co-develop solutions and understand unmet needs
• Translate complex technical ideas into compelling narratives for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and business executives
• Build reference and lighthouse accounts by delivering early access to breakthrough capabilities
• Help commercialize innovations—market realization is essential for innovation success
• Work effectively in a matrix with product management, engineering, marketing, and field teams
• Participate in standards bodies and open-source communities to shape industry direction
• Influence product roadmaps and feature prioritization based on customer insights
• Champion a culture of critical thinking, experimentation, and calculated risk-taking
• Author and present on emerging technologies, innovation frameworks, and breakthrough solutions
• Evangelize our leadership in AI-powered networking and edge intelligence to customers and prospects
• Build visibility for Extreme's innovation strategy and technical differentiation in the marketplace

Innovation Lead – Office of the CTO

• Set Verily’s security strategy and roadmap, supporting external products and internal corporate systems.
• Recruit top talent and build and lead an excellent team of highly technical security professionals.
• Drive scaling and adoption of AI-driven security tools and automation patterns with engineering to enhance operational security, product security and data privacy.
• Collaborate with Verily Leadership, building strong and trusting relationships with Engineering, Product, Clinical, Regulatory and Quality, IT, Legal, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Take on an external-facing role with key customers, security organizations, and colleagues across the industry.

Chief Information Security Officer

• Lead the technology risk and governance strategy by driving risk initiatives in support of the Enterprise Technology and Transformation strategy to protect our brand, enable business-focused capabilities, and lead with innovation.
• Ownership and liaison for SOX controls with Finance, Internal Audit and External Auditor including responsibility for the annual testing of related IT SOX controls and deficiency remediation.
• Scale and optimize the first-line of defense to proactively identify and mitigate technology risk across the firm.
• Work in tandem with the Enterprise Risk and Compliance team to contribute to the enterprise risk appetite and taxonomy, and design and operate the controls that implement them within technology.
• Operationalize the enterprise risk framework within technology and establish the technology-specific governance needed to run the first line, in coordination with information security.
• Establish and track KPIs and KRIs related to technology risk and compliance across all technology teams; create consistency in measuring and reporting.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the enterprise to integrate risk management into strategic planning, product development, and operational rigor.
• Lead risk assessments and partner with Internal Audit to ensure compliance and identify areas for improvement.
• Drive a culture of risk awareness and continuous improvement, ensuring compliance to industry standards.
• Create risk awareness programs designed to improve the risk fluency of our technology organization.
• Own first-line management of technology risk arising from third parties, external platforms, cloud providers, and critical dependencies—including concentration and continuity exposure—partnering with Procurement / Third-Party Risk Management and the second-line dependency function.
• Own identification, remediation planning, tracking to closure, and timely escalation of technology risks, control issues, and audit action plans across the organization.
• Design, implement, and operate the technology control environment, including control self-assessment and the production of audit- and oversight-ready evidence.
• Embed first-line risk management and controls for AI including model and use-case inventory, secure deployment, monitoring, and control operation.
• Strengthen operational resilience and continuity for critical technology services, including availability and recovery expectations.
• Map regulatory and compliance obligations affecting technology into the control environment, ensuring traceability between obligations, controls, and evidence.

Head of Technology Risk, Governance, and Controls

• Discover, prototype, and develop transformative ML/AI and edge computing solutions that position Extreme Networks at the forefront of intelligent networking
• Explore emerging technologies and build proofs of concept
• Drive adoption and help define product roadmaps
• Help commercialize innovations—ensuring that innovation without market realization remains just research
• Identify and evaluate emerging opportunities in ML/AI, edge computing, and adjacent technologies
• Conceptualize, prototype, and validate innovative solutions—moving fast from question to proof of concept
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, standards bodies, and competitive innovation
• Build and architect real solution prototypes, not just advise on them—coding, validating, and documenting as needed
• Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to turn validated ideas into production-ready features
• Contribute directly to solution delivery through prototyping, testing, and technical demonstrations
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying and fixing technical and architectural bottlenecks
• Engage customers, partners, and prospects to co-develop solutions and understand unmet needs
• Translate complex technical ideas into compelling narratives for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and business executives
• Build reference and lighthouse accounts by delivering early access to breakthrough capabilities
• Work effectively in a matrix with product management, engineering, marketing, and field teams
• Participate in standards bodies and open-source communities to shape industry direction
• Influence product roadmaps and feature prioritization based on customer insights
• Champion a culture of critical thinking, experimentation, and calculated risk-taking
• Author and present on emerging technologies, innovation frameworks, and breakthrough solutions
• Evangelize our leadership in AI-powered networking and edge intelligence to customers and prospects
• Build visibility for Extreme's innovation strategy and technical differentiation in the marketplace

Innovation Lead

• Advise enterprise customers on how to adopt and operationalise AI in ways that create measurable business impact
• Lead executive workshops and discovery engagements focused on AI strategy, intelligent automation, developer productivity, modernisation and digital transformation
• Help organisations identify high-value AI opportunities across customer experience, operations, software delivery and internal platforms
• Shape transformation roadmaps that combine AI, cloud, data and modern engineering practices into practical execution strategies
• Guide customers through the organisational, operational and technology changes required to become AI-enabled businesses
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and senior business stakeholders
• Facilitate strategic conversations around innovation, modernisation, operating models and emerging technology adoption
• Translate complex business and technology challenges into actionable transformation programmes and investment priorities
• Help clients define measurable business outcomes, success metrics and value frameworks for strategic initiatives
• Shape complex solution strategies spanning AI-enabled products, intelligent platforms, cloud modernisation and digital experiences
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design and delivery teams to define differentiated, scalable and commercially viable solutions
• Drive experience-led modernisation approaches that improve agility, resilience, speed to market and customer outcomes
• Ensure solution strategies align to modern engineering principles, platform thinking and scalable delivery models
• Support the growth of strategic customer accounts through trusted advisory and value-led engagement
• Shape strategic pursuits, proposals and large-scale opportunities across AI, modernisation and digital transformation
• Develop compelling business cases and outcome narratives that clearly articulate ROI, operational impact and strategic value
• Partner with Client Principals and delivery leaders to identify expansion opportunities and long-term growth strategies
• Stay close to developments across AI, cloud, developer tooling, platform engineering and enterprise technology trends
• Contribute to Nearform’s market propositions, strategic partnerships and thought leadership across AI and modern engineering
• Help shape new offerings and go-to-market strategies based on evolving enterprise customer needs
• Represent Nearform externally through workshops, events, industry conversations and strategic customer engagements

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