Chief Technologist

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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Job Title: Chief Technologist (Cyber & Intelligence)

Salary: £98 – £120k

Location: Cheltenham UK

Clearance: Enhanced DV clearance is preferable (or at the very least held DV in the past)

Key Responsbilities:

• Accountable for understanding and shaping our clients’ technical direction, projecting thought leadership, prioritising time with clients to gain mission intimacy and to increase technical ‘presence’.
• Responsible for setting the C&I technical strategy and engaging workforce and clients in that strategy, in-line with the overall organisational strategy. Provides technical direction for (and technical leadership of) the Engineering workforce in the C&I business.
• Accountable for the technical quality of the artefacts releases. This includes:
  • Accountability for technical coherence across the portfolio.
  • Ensuring appropriate quality standards have been set and are applied.
  • Relevant performance metrics are identified and implemented as a key part of continuous improvement.
  • Lessons identified are captured in changes to the above also as a key part of continuous improvement.
• Responsible for actively supporting Business Development, Capture and Proposal development (and provision of direction to the Senior Cyber Technologists). Includes responsibility for bid solution assurance.
• Responsible for fostering C&I focused innovation, stimulating new propositions and working with Capture to pull this through into new work. Includes driving new ways of working, new types of relationships with clients etc.
• Working closely with Lead US ExPat, responsible for identifying the technical capabilities and ways of working from partners overseas that are applicable to clients’ needs, now and in the future.
• Responsible for identifying technical capability gaps and obsolescence, sending demand signals to internal capacity functions and informing the Annual Operating Plan and Long Range Strategic Plan. This includes responsibility for identifying appropriate partners to add, reshape and retire to the supplier ecosystem.
• Undertake any other reasonable tasks as requested.

General Operational Duties:

• Attend C&I Leadership Team (LT) meetings as required.
• Share collective responsibility for the development and delivery of C&I strategy.
• Support the NSS Technical Director in developing and growing a professional and engaged team, effectively representing the technical direction of the C&I business to the NSS Technical Director to ensure alignment.
• Remain compliant with all applicable policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience Required:

• At least 10 years’ experience in the technology industry.
• At least three years’ experience working in the National Security Sector with deep domain insight
• Software Development – extensive experience in developing software
• Delivering complex engineering programmes – understanding of what delivery entails
• SME in 1-2 areas e.g. defence, cyber, data science
• Experience in being able to build teams, build relationships

To be considered please apply directly with an up to date version of your CV.