1 to 25 of 58 Strategic Thinking Jobs in the Thames Valley

Head of Strategic Digital Research Infrastructure

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
role: We're looking for a strategic and influential Director of Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) to shape Jisc's role within the UK's digital research infrastructure landscape. This is a senior leadership role responsible for defining Jisc's strategic direction for digital research infrastructure, ensuring our capabilities … programmes, research organisations, and technology partners, you will help position Jisc as a trusted partner, enabler, and integrator. The role is externally focused and strategic in nature, bringing together expertise from across Jisc to develop a coherent vision for digital research infrastructure. You will work closely with colleagues across ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Thames Valley ICB
Location
Windsor, SL4 3DP, United Kingdom
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00
summary From 1 April 2026, Frimley ICB will merge with BOB ICB to form Thames Valley ICB, which will operate under a strengthened strategic commissioning model with a greater focus on long term population health planning, outcomes focused commissioning, and systemwide leadership. To deliver this effectively, teams will require … range of viable options and recommendations. Experience of making decisions on difficult or contentious technical issues where multiple courses of action are possible. Demonstrates strategic thinking in anticipating technical risks, capacity issues or platform limitations and resolving problems before they impact service delivery. Planning Skills Essential Demonstrated capability ...

Lead IT Integration Engineer

Location
Aylesbury, England, United Kingdom
improvement of the systems, APIs and data flows that underpin critical council services. This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands‐on technical expertise, strategic leadership and product ownership in a role that delivers real impact across the organisation. About us Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that … ongoing development of our enterprise integration platform, helping shape the future of our digital and data landscape. This is a varied role that combines strategic thinking with practical delivery. One day you might be designing and developing complex integrations or reviewing technical solutions and the next you could ...

Senior Security Architect

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
develop and maintain Thames Water’s security architecture strategy, roadmaps, principles, standards, and reusable security patterns. You will provide security architecture leadership across strategic transformation and innovation programmes, ensuring secure-by-design practices are embedded throughout the technology delivery lifecycle. Reporting to the Head of Security Architecture, you will … ensure new and existing technology capabilities are designed and delivered with appropriate, proportionate, and effective security controls. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence architectural decisions, manage security risks, and strengthen cyber resilience across a regulated Critical National Infrastructure environment. What ...

Senior Field Marketing Manager

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
field marketing plan from strategy through execution, using Account-Based Experience (ABX) as a core framework to engage strategic enterprise accounts, create pipeline, accelerate opportunities and expand Qlik’s footprint. You won’t just run campaigns. You’ll act as a strategic marketing partner to UK Sales leadership … priorities into integrated programmes that create meaningful customer engagement and measurable revenue outcomes. If you’re an experienced B2B field marketer ready for greater strategic ownership, executive visibility and direct commercial impact, this is that opportunity. What makes this role interesting? This is not a traditional field marketing role ...

SAP Solutions Architect

Location
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
model and transformation objectives. This is not a hands-on configuration role or technical role. Rather, it requires broad SAP ecosystem knowledge, strong architectural thinking, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to challenge and guide subject matter experts toward an integrated solution. Key Responsibilities Solution Leadership Define … overall business solution architecture across SAP programmes Ensure solutions align with client business objectives, transformation goals, and strategic roadmaps Develop and communicate clear target-state business capabilities and solution architectures Translate business strategy into practical SAP-enabled solution designs Cross-Functional Solution Governance Coordinate solution designs across multiple ...

Principal AI Consultant

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
building consensus around future direction. Develop AI business cases, value frameworks and ROI models, helping clients prioritise investments and track realised benefits. Challenge conventional thinking and bring insight from market trends, emerging technologies and leading practices to help clients stay ahead of the AI curve. Build trusted relationships with … Boards, C-suite leaders and senior management teams. Strong commercial acumen, including proposition development, account growth, opportunity shaping and business development. A balance of strategic thinking and hands-on pragmatism, able to move comfortably between executive discussions and practical delivery challenges. Strong knowledge of the Microsoft ...

Senior Integration and Platform Developer

Hiring Organisation
Thames Valley ICB
Location
Oxford, OX4 2PG, United Kingdom
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00
present complex technical detail to a range of stakeholders and manage competing priorities. An understanding of the NHS landscape ICBs, NHS England, and how strategic commissioning and direct care functions relate. The post holder will provide senior technical leadership in the design, development and delivery of cloud-based data … Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Able to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options. Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust ...

Head of Projects

Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
senior leadership and teams across the business to turn technical requirements into successfully delivered programmes. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will combine strategic thinking with a hands-on approach to project delivery. This is a full-time, hybrid role, with a minimum of four days ...

Lead Business Analyst

Location
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
shaping and delivering business and technology change across our organisation. Sitting at the heart of Product, Technology and the wider business, you'll combine strategic thinking, analytical rigour and leadership to ensure we deliver solutions that create meaningful value for our customers and colleagues. This is an exciting ...

Product Manager

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
products remain competitive and customer-focused, and work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver market-leading solutions that support the organisation's strategic objectives. Key Responsibilities Define and execute the roadmap for your products. Own the full product lifecycle, from concept and business case development through launch, growth … activity to inform product strategy and roadmap decisions. Create and maintain high-quality product documentation, sales enablement materials, and proposition collateral. Present product performance, strategic recommendations, and roadmap updates to senior stakeholders and governance forums. Build strong relationships with external partners to identify and develop joint revenue opportunities. Influence ...

Pre Sales Technical Manager Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom + 1 more Sales Posted 12 hours ago

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies. - Provide feedback to product teams based on customer interactions. - Represent the company at industry events, webinars, and strategic meetings. + **Budget Management** - Assign team members efficiently across opportunities and regions. - Monitor expenditures to stay within budget limits, including team budgets for travel … functional teams. - Excellent presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills. + Market Awareness - Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies. + Strategic Thinking - Ability to develop and implement strategies that align with business goals. - Analytical and critical thinking skills for solution validation and proposal ...

Principal Software Engineer

Location
Thame, England, United Kingdom
Represent PEXA externally within the technology community and industry forums. About You You're a highly experienced technologist who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and business acumen. You thrive on solving complex problems at scale, influencing engineering direction, and helping others grow. You'll bring: Significant ...

Agentic AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Thames Valley ICB
Location
Oxford, OX4 2PG, United Kingdom
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00
ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to make autonomous decisions on complex technical or operational issues, often within tight and changing timescales. Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust ...

Deep Learning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Thames Valley ICB
Location
Oxford, OX4 2PG, United Kingdom
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00
ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to make autonomous decisions on complex technical or operational issues, often within tight and changing timescales. Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust ...

Digital Portfolio Lead (24 Month Fixed- Term Contract)

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team. A large-scale Digital Transformation is underway, and we are recruiting a Digital Portfolio Lead to oversee the full portfolio, ensuring overall health, performance … alignment with strategic priorities while operating alongside executive stakeholders. This senior role is responsible for shaping, governing, and driving execution across multiple business domains, ensuring investments deliver measurable outcomes and support the evolution of operating models, customer experience, and organisational capability. The role requires strong portfolio expertise, commercial acumen ...

Operations Lead - UK

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
regulatory compliance, financial performance, and alignment with regional and global strategies. Reporting directly to the EMEA Regional Operations Director, this position requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage multi‐site operations, high‐performing teams, and complex mission‐critical environments. The role combines business ownership, technical … primary escalation point for major operational incidents and critical business risks. Represent the company with regulators, customers, industry bodies, and key strategic partners. Operational Oversight Ensure operational excellence across all UK data center facilities, delivering maximum uptime, resilience, and service quality. Define, monitor, and report on KPIs related ...

Principal Software Engineer

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
SaaS organisation that is investing heavily in its engineering capability and modern cloud platform. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering team where you’ll have genuine influence over technical direction rather than simply delivering features. Reporting into the CTO, the Principal Software Engineer will … business stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges whilst ensuring the platform remains scalable, secure and fit for future growth. If you enjoy balancing strategic thinking with hands‐on engineering, influencing technical decisions and helping teams deliver high-quality software, this Principal Software Engineer opportunity offers the chance ...

Manager, Corporate Sales UK

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
hunter talent to fill team vacancies Execute comprehensive 30/60/90 day onboarding Ensure new hires ramp to productivity within 90 days Strategic Execution: Execute regional sales strategy and initiatives Collaborate with Marketing, Channel, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success Represent team in leadership meetings Drive continuous improvement … example with integrity Creates culture of accountability and excellence Coaching Excellence: Develops talent through effective coaching Provides constructive feedback Balances support with challenge Strategic Thinking: Translates strategy into execution Data-driven decision making Proactive problem-solving Collaboration: Cross-functional partnership Represents team effectively to leadership Shares best practices ...

Senior Product Manager

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
equivalent experience. Proven ability to own a full product end to end — backlog, strategy, and commercial performance — across teams with minimal oversight. Strong strategic thinking, with the judgment to set multi-quarter strategy and resolve complex issues involving many variable factors. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including ...

Manager, Business Development Representatives – Northern Europe

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Outreach, ChatGPT, Lavender, ZoomInfo & LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Experience coaching teams that operate across languages and cultures; multilingual ability is a plus. High emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and ability to influence cross-functionally. Strong analytical skills with a data-first approach to decision-making. A background in cybersecurity ...

IT Asset Manager

Location
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
have ServiceNow Platform Management: Prior direct responsibility for managing and developing the ServiceNow platform, with emphasis on ITSM and CMDB modules. Conceptual & Strategic Thinking: Ability to think on medium-to-long-term horizons, connect big-picture concepts, and translate abstract ideas into practical execution. Agile Mindset: Demonstration ...

Design & Engineering Lead (Electrical - Data Centres) - London

Hiring Organisation
Eaton
Location
Slough, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time
Segment, in this role you will be responsible for managing the design, development, and implementation of innovative data centre solutions. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in data centre design and a passion for driving innovation. This role requires influential technical leader ...

ICT Network Lead - Bicester & Otterbourne

Hiring Organisation
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Bicester, OX26 6HR, United Kingdom
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00
available when it matters most. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled infrastructure professional who enjoys combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic thinking and service improvement. Main duties of the job About the Role As ICT Network Lead, you will be responsible for the operational … support, maintenance and strategic development of the Trust's network infrastructure across a complex multi-site environment. You will provide specialist expertise across both on-premises and cloud networking technologies, ensuring the availability, performance and security of business-critical systems. You will work closely with all aspects ...

IT Security Operations Lead

Location
Aylesbury, England, United Kingdom
capabilities, ensuring we can effectively identify, investigate and respond to security threats across the organisation. This is a key role that combines technical expertise, strategic thinking and operational leadership to help keep our systems, services and communities secure. About us Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that … SIEM, SOAR and EDR platforms, while collaborating with stakeholders across the organisation to strengthen our overall security posture. Whether you're influencing strategic decisions, leading improvement initiatives or responding to emerging security challenges, your expertise will help safeguard essential services and support our ambitious digital future. Key Responsibilities Lead ...