Head of Advanced Technologies in Basingstoke

Location: Basingstoke, travel may be required.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. Are you passionate about shaping and growing the future of Quantum, AI and Network Strategy for our business? Do you have a track record in Quantum, AI and Network Strategy with an ability to communicate emerging technologies and market trends, inspiring change and shaping the future direction of offerings?

Your role will involve:

• This is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and driving Fujitsu Defence and National Security (DNS) market strategy for Quantum, AI and Network capabilities across the Defence business.
• Reporting directly to the DNS Chief Digital Officer (CDO), this role acts as the thought leader and strategic owner for these domains—setting vision, market positioning, and direction for growth.
• This is a market-facing role, engaging extensively with customers, industry partners, and prospective clients to understand demand signals, influence key stakeholders, and position Fujitsu's Defence offerings ahead of market trends.
• Owning the strategy for Quantum, AI, and Networks offerings across DNS —defining future direction, market positioning, competitive differentiation, and long-term growth priorities.
• Acting as the senior market-facing leader, engaging customers and partners to understand DNS digital ambitions, shape demand, and translate insights into actionable strategic direction for DNS.
• Developing and maintaining a coherent multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment between capability development, customer requirements and transformation goals, and Fujitsu's wider technology vision.
• Partnering with other DNS capability leaders (e.g., Head of AI) who will develop offerings and execute against your strategy.
• Representing Fujitsu as a thought leader at Defence and National Security innovation forums—promoting DNS' expertise in emerging technologies.
• Monitoring market, technology and policy trends in Quantum, AI and networking (including secure-by-design, trusted AI, and post-quantum security) and ensuring DNS offerings remain ahead of customer needs.
• Building senior customer relationships and supporting pre-sales, pursuit strategies and bid activity with strategic messaging and shaping.
• Championing innovation, fostering an environment where emerging technologies can be safely trialled, scaled, and embedded into customer solutions.
• Architecting a partner ecosystem that brings together defence primes, deep‑tech innovators, academia, and government bodies—shaping long‑term alliances that accelerate national capability in Quantum, AI and Networks, expand influence across the Defence technology landscape, and position DNS at the centre of a future‑focused innovation.

Your skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience shaping strategic technology direction at enterprise or sector level within Defence or highly regulated environments.
• Track record of market-facing leadership—engaging with senior MOD stakeholders, primes, suppliers, and cross-industry partners.
• Deep understanding of trends and opportunities in Quantum technologies, Artificial Intelligence, advanced networking, and secure digital architectures.
• Experience translating customer demand and technology trends into coherent strategy, roadmaps, and investment cases.
• Strong ability to influence at senior levels, articulate complex technical concepts clearly, and shape customer thinking.
• Proven leadership in environments with federated delivery teams, ensuring alignment without directly owning all execution.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, think long-term, and make strategic trade-offs for the organisation.

Culture & Ways of Working

• Works collaboratively across DNS, Defence Growth teams, and Fujitsu's global technology community to ensure UK Defence is fully leveraging global innovation.
• Acts as a cultural role model for strategic thinking, customer obsession, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Actively creates end-to-end team working and the one-team approach.
• You’ll be working across disparate teams in across the globe and you will naturally help out when others in the team require support.
• Works flexibly across Business, Customer and Home locations with the aim of driving results.

This role will require you to be eligible to undergo a high level of security clearance.

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in AI, Quantum this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

• 26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work – employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews. Fujitsu has been recognized as a Disability Confident Leader by the Department of Work and Pensions. This is in recognition of our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and employing people with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer a guaranteed interview to all candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for a role and are experienced at making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. Please let me know if you would like further information.

Achieve together

We are Fujitsu. A Japanese company with a strong set of values and a history of respecting fairness and equality, whilst promoting diversity and inclusion. We constantly push ourselves to do more and strive to bring together a diverse mix of perspectives and talents in an inclusive environment, where we encourage our people to bring their full self to work. We call this Be Completely You.

We are inclusive. As a responsible business, it is important to us that we reflect the diversity of our society and customers. Not only are we a Disability Confident company, a Times Top 50 employer for Women and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBT+.

We want you to thrive. If working for a progressive organization, with a continuing commitment to diversity and inclusion is important, you should apply.