Group Chief Digital and Information Officer

The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT
Swindon, United Kingdom
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Franchise
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 70K

Job location

Swindon, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Systems Engineering
Python
Software Requirements Analysis
Verification and Validation (Software)

Job description

Team Leadership

  • Lead a team of 2-3 robotics and airborne platform specialists, ensuring clear priorities, effective resourcing and a collaborative working culture
  • Understand where robotics can deliver value for the sector and how SMEs can best access those opportunities, informing internal planning and capability development.
  • Translate sector insight into clear guidance for SMEs on adoption pathways, development barriers and opportunities for collaboration.

Subject Leadership

  • Act as a subject matter expert for robotics and autonomy, providing applied insight grounded in working knowledge of tools, platforms and test environments.
  • Ensure robotics and automation capabilities are appropriately resourced with objectives aligned to customer demand and real-world development needs.
  • Maintain oversight of key capabilities, including mobile robotics platforms, airborne robotics/UAVs, and the CarMaker-based simulation environment.

Project Delivery

  • Serve as technical lead for selected robotics projects, ensuring technical requirements are well defined, achievable and aligned to project objectives.
  • Work closely with project managers to ensure technical outputs are delivered on time and to a high quality.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with robotics companies, government bodies, trade associations and academic partners.
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Requirements

  • Strong background in robotics, autonomy, mechatronics or equivalent fields, with experience relevant to real-world or commercial deployment.

  • Working knowledge of key robotics tools and frameworks, including ROS2, Python and robotics simulation (CarMaker preferred; Gazebo or IsaacSIM beneficial).

  • Demonstrated senior technical capability, including leading technical work packages or engineering streams.

  • Systems engineering mindset: requirements definition, verification and validation.

  • Experience supporting or coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams.

  • Background experience with robotics hardware, testing or integration sufficient to understand operational considerations within the team.

  • Experience with airborne robotics (UAVs).

  • Knowledge of the UK robotics ecosystem.

  • Experience working directly with customers or external partners, ideally including SMEs, providing guidance, technical interpretation or development support.

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Robotics Adoption Programme skills development

Benefits & conditions

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