Lead Innovation Architect

Job Description

As Lead Innovation Architect you will analyze digital startups and established technology players to identify disruptions, assess their impact on SGS, and shape strategic responses. By evaluating build–buy–partner scenarios, supporting M&A due diligence, and designing conceptual solution architectures for new business models and digital services, the role helps define where SGS should play and how it should transform. You will work across Digital Trust and emerging digital domains to guide the development of new service concepts, SaaS offerings, and trust platforms

Key responsibilities :

• Analyse digital startups and tech players to gauge disruption potential, strategic fit, and opportunities for SGS.
• Support M&A evaluations by assessing technology approaches, solution maturity, and integration feasibility.
• Recommend where SGS should build internally, partner, invest, acquire, or launch new venture initiatives.
• Explore how emerging digital business models (, SaaS, platforms, trust ecosystems) could reshape SGS’s offerings.
• Benchmark SGS’s current capabilities to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for new digital services.
• Design conceptual end-to-end solution architectures for new ventures and service concepts.
• Evaluate build / buy / partner options, including effort estimates and capability needs.
• Perform strategic assessments such as SWOT, scenario analysis, and disruption comparisons.
• Assess feasibility of replicating external solutions internally and define resource requirements.
• Collaborate across business, operations, innovation, and IT teams to validate assumptions and shape viable concepts.
• Provide clear, actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders on where SGS should innovate, invest, or pivot.

Qualifications

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