
Innovation & Technology Advisor
Do you have a broad experience in advising tailormade software development companies or business units in the technical strategy and approach for building the BU's solution portfolio? Is your core technical expertise based on research? Do you love to coach technical roles within the organisation with the goal to empower them to lead projects themselves at a technical level and participate in (pre)sales for the BU?
Then you're the Innovation & Technology Advisor we're looking for!

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The main focus of you as our new Innovation & Technology Advisor will be technology-oriented:
- Advise the business unit managers on technology strategy to build the BU’s solutions, taking into account customer expectations and the overall (company) strategy.
- Research new technologies to innovate and work closely together with the CIO on technology strategies at ACA level and investigate how those technologies fit with the strategy of the BU.
- Actively contribute to initiatives (at ACA or BU level) to get more colleagues enabled for a Tech Lead role within a project.
- Support the tech leads of the teams in introducing technical opportunities and implement them where relevant from the customer’s point of view.
- Coach the tech leads of the teams in implementing best practices for secure software development (e.g. vulnerability checking within the build system).
- Support teams with their technical challenges.
- Support bid teams during presales.
From a technical-commercial point of view, as the Innovation and Technology Advisor you will:
- Assess and answer RFPs for new opportunities and enable colleagues to do the same.
- Be inventive in finding solutions for technical-commercial challenges.
- Coach colleagues towards a variety of technical alternatives in order to close commercial deals in collaboration with sales .
- Spot opportunities for new business from a technology point of view.
- Represent ACA Group in front of clients, e.g. actively contributing in Customer Steering Committees, being present at conferences or other customer facing initiatives.
Do you have what it takes?
Hard skills
- You have a broad technical expertise in the domain of open source tailormade software development and infrastructure/hosting related technologies
- You've got excellent presentation skills.
- You're a real trendwatcher and staying up to date with the latest technological evolutions is one of your passions.
- You're eager to spot new business opportunities from a technological point of view.
- Software development is your second nature.
Soft skills
- You are a motivational leader and coach, you create an open communication environment, and make yourself accessible to colleagues for spontaneous exchanges of ideas on technical matters.
- You've got strong communication and negotiation skills, aiming at finding a common ground, even if opinions of all stakeholders are diverging.
- Your mind is set on innovation.
- You're very customer and result oriented: you master the ability to close an agreement with respect for the customer’s functional needs, within the customer’s timing and budget constraints.
Our application process
From candidate to colleague: this framework will give you a general idea of the different steps in our interview process.
What's working at ACA like?
- We’ve got your backWe provide an elaborated health and insurance plan to cover your needs. It’s our priority to keep our employees as happy as possible. We do this by providing a good work-life balance, providing the right tools, and so on.
- Our unique company cultureYou’ll be part of a passionate and hardworking team that is proud of their realizations. ACA is a place with teamwork, openness, knowledge sharing and peer recognition as key values.
What we've been up to lately
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- A flexible and reliable cloud solution for Liantis
For our client Liantis, we migrated their on-premise Atlassian tools to AWS cloud. Using Kubernetes, we were able to guarantee automatic scaling with over 99.9% availability!
- Applying Data Mesh principles to an IoT data architecture
This blog post shows how a data mesh approach avoids an unmaintainable monolithic data platform by explaining what data mesh is, its principles and applying it to an IoT data case as an example.
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