SkyChina - Head of Technology

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Accountabilities

Airbus is setting up a subsidiary in China to develop and sell digital solutions for the Chinese aviation market. 

The SkyChina Head of Technology is responsible for the technology vision and execution for this entity. This will start by the creation of the local big data platform and will later expand to the development of the platform capabilities to support the development of digital solutions.

As a part of his/her role, the jobholder will be responsible of the following main activities:

• Define the company’s digital technology strategy 

• Support the definition of the digital products strategy

• Launch & manage the development of digital products

• Lead the technical team (10 to 25 people)

Note: as of today, the location of this subsidiary is not yet defined and the jobholder may be requested to move once it has been established. In the meantime, the jobholder may be allowed to work remotely from one of Airbus offices in China.

Main activities

* Define the company’s digital technology strategy

The jobholder will be responsible to assist the Head of Digital Solutions China to define the technology strategy of the company: understand the needs of the company, identify which products would allow the company to fulfill them (from the local market or from open source) and work with the technical team to assess its feasibility.

This covers:

• The creation of the local big data platform and the choice of data analytics tools

• The development of capabilities (machine learning, BI…) to support new services

* Support the definition of the digital products strategy

The jobholder will need to work with the business team to understand customer needs, assess both their feasibility and business value. The jobholder will then be responsible to prioritize these projects, decide to launch prototypes or early adopter programs to explore these possibilities.

In addition, the jobholder will be responsible to continuously monitor product and technology innovations to improve platform and product capabilities for China.

* Launch and manage the development of digital products

Once the development of a digital product has been decided, the jobholder will be responsible to launch and manage the development of this product. This includes:

• determining the appropriate technical solution for this product

• work with technology partners on the implementation

* Lead the technical team

Once this new entity will be created, the jobholder will be responsible to build and lead the technical team (10-25 people). This means

• finding the people within his/her network or via standard recruitment processes

• ensuring the coordination of the technical team & monitoring project progress

• supporting the team’s training and development & ensuring team motivation

Qualifications

Education

• Masters degree or above in computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics or other related majors

Functional experience

• More than 6 years experience related to data analysis and digital platform products technology

• More than 2 years of big data technical director work experience

Technical skills

• Big data platform project development and management

• Experience in algorithm development (machine learning, data prediction, etc.) is a plus

Communication skills

• Excellent oral & written communication

• English & Mandarin fluent written and spoken

Management skills

• Demonstrated Leadership skills

• Experience in hiring and managing a technical team

• Good cross-department and international coordination skills

Others

• Be product-oriented

• Have a good understanding of the big data Chinese market & tools

• Strong interest for aviation

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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