Chief Technologist - Cyber

Softcat; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

School pick up flexibility

Job summary

Softcat is seeking a Chief Technologist to own the technology decisions for our Cyber Security proposition. You will set a clear vision, build trust with colleagues, customers and partners, and drive engagement across Softcat’s business lines.

You will collaborate with OCTO to ensure short-term effectiveness and long-term success while shaping cross-sell opportunities across workspace, networking, data, automation and AI.

Qualifications

• Extensive cyber security knowledge and leadership experience.
• Creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, advanced problem solving and drive.
• Energising collaborative team player and relationship builder.
• Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritise effectively.
• Outstanding public speaker with credibility in front of business and technical audiences.
• Commercially aware approach to customer engagement and proposition development.

Responsibilities

• Acting as an ambassador for Softcat's values (passion, fun, intelligence, responsibility, and community).
• Providing technology market insights and guidance for the Cyber Security TTC and leadership teams.
• Identifying common customer problems and opportunities for adoption of technology and services.
• Selecting products and services addressing those problems; engaging technical and business audiences.
• Uncovering opportunities and identifying clear outcomes and success criteria.

Skills

Extensive cyber security knowledge

Proposition leadership

Creative thinking

Collaborative team player

Public speaking

Commercial awareness

Job description

Join our OCTO (Office of the CTO) team.

The OCTO is responsible for delivering world-class technology market insights and guidance to our customers and internal stakeholders. We work with sales, services, vendors, customers, partners, analysts and Softcat's leadership teams to ensure that our propositions and capabilities remain relevant now and into the future.

Success. The Softcat Way.

As the UK's largest technology solutions provider and a FTSE 250 listed company, we have built a reputation for excellence. Our strategy is simple - we believe that highly engaged employees are the key to building customer trust and loyalty over the years. This trust and loyalty, combined with our market leading growth and performance, enables us to invest in our technology and services capabilities.

In this senior role, we are looking for a high impact, highly collaborative and highly experienced technology leader and Cyber expert to own the technology decisions for our Cyber Security proposition.

The ideal candidate will be a determined positive energising collaborator, who will set a clear and simple vision, will initiate and build trust amongst colleagues, customers and partners, is comfortable with passionate debate and making decisions, is confident presenting to business and technical audiences, and who has a get it done, get it done together, and get it done well attitude. Above all, you will obsess over customer and colleague engagement, to ensure every interaction proves that we care.

As a member of the Cyber Security Technology Tower Council (TTC), Product Council and Services Council, you will collaborate with colleagues to ensure that our proposition and execution is effective in the short-term, built for long-term success, and is change-ready.

In addition, you will be working with the Office of the CTO (OCTO) to identify cross sell opportunities across all Softcat business lines, including workspace, hybrid platforms, networking and connectivity, and data, automation and AI.

As Chief Technologist, you'll be responsible for:

• Acting as an ambassador for Softcat's values (passion, fun, intelligence, responsibility, and community)
• Providing technology market insights and guidance for the Cyber Security TTC, and the Softcat leadership teams
• Identifying common customer problems and opportunities that will gain mainstream technology and services adoption
• Selecting the products and services that address those problemsEngaging technical and business audiences alongside sales and services colleagues
• Uncovering opportunities and identifying clear outcomes and success criteria

We'd love you to have

• Extensive cyber security knowledge and experience, and an outstanding track record of proposition development and leadership
• Creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, advanced problem solving, humility and drive
• Energising collaborative team player and relationship builder
• Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability to co-ordinate and prioritise effectively
• Outstanding public speaker, with confidence and credibility in front of external and internal business and technical audiences
• Commercially aware approach to customer engagement and proposition development

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.