CTO Defence

SCC; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large company benefits

2 volunteering days/year

Hybrid working

Job summary

SCC is seeking a Defence CTO to lead pre-sales across secure IT, cyber, data and digital transformation in defence programmes. The role is remote with regular travel to customer sites and SCC offices, mainly in the South and Midlands.

You will partner with Defence leadership to shape mission-aligned solutions, run discovery workshops, and drive services-led growth while navigating in a complex defence ecosystem. Hybrid working is available with extensive travel.

Qualifications

• Senior pre-sales technologist with defence domain experience.
• Strong understanding of secure IT, cloud, data and cyber.
• Experience with Defence Digital and national security contractors.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, problem framing and service design workshops.
• Shape mission-aligned solutions with SCC capabilities.
• Own solution direction with SMEs, vendors and partners.
• Build pre-sales artefacts and support bids.
• Act as technical authority during early capture.

Skills

Defence domain exposure

DV clearance

Pre-sales capability

Secure IT networking

Defence integrators

Strategic thinker

Job description

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Defence CTO

Location: Remote, with regular travel to Customer Sites and SCC offices, mainly in the South and Midlands

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: £110k - £130k depending on experience, plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday

Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role purpose:

SCC is scaling its digital services footprint in Defence and requires a senior pre-sales technologist with defence domain experience. You’ll partner with the Head of Defence & National Security, Account Directors, Account Managers/BD Executives to lead, shape mission-aligned solutions, and drive services-led growth across secure IT, cyber, data and digital transformation programmes.

Key responsibilities:

• Senior Stakeholder ownership and management - engage with Defence Digital, Front Line Commands, DE&S/National Armaments Director Group, Military Strategic HQ, Cyber and Special Operations Command (formally StratCom), and industry primes when partnering on opportunities
• Provide thought leadership to prospects, customers and work to understand their business challenges, translation of these into business solutions with SCCs capabilities at their heart.
• Run technical discovery, problem framing, and service design workshops
• Own the solution direction, engagement of appropriate Subject Matter Experts from the Specialist Sales, Pre Sales, Operations together with SCC Vendors and Partners.
• Shape SCC services & solutions across a range of technology areas, including:
  • Secure networks & hosting
  • Digital workplace
  • Data / AI / analytics
  • Cyber security & resilience
  • Managed services & ITSM/SIAM models
• Build pre-sales artefacts: architectures, roadmaps, service definitions, high-level designs
• Support bids and proposal writing with other SMEs across SCC
• Act as the technical authority during early capture
• Build credible technical trust quickly with defence stakeholders

Skills and experience:

Essential:

• Deep defence domain exposure (Defence Digital, FLCs, DE&S/National Armaments Director Group, CSOC, etc.)
• SC clearance (DV desirable)
• Strong pre-sales capability: discovery, shaping, solution definition
• Broad secure IT understanding: networking, cloud, hosting, cyber, data, enterprise services
• Experience and networks within SIs/defence integrators (e.g. DXC, Leidos, Sopra, CGI, BAE, Atos etc.)
• A strategic thinker, professionally curious with a desire to learn and grow

Nice to Have

• Military background + commercial experience
• Exposure to cyber operations / defensive cyber

Person Specification

• A strategic thinker, professionally curious with a desire to learn and grow
• A good listener, articulate, numerate and polished presenter of business and technology solutions to a varied and senior audience
• Willing to challenge, the SCC business and the customer.
• In depth knowledge of SCCs end to end propositions, our partners and vendors
• Self-motivated with a track record of success in Defence
• Commercially astute, must understand Cost to serve, P&L and customer commercial benefit realisation.
• Ability to represent the team externally and internally as one of our best thought leaders
• Service orientated, always thinking about the ongoing service that a client will experience pre, during and post purchase of a service.
• Expertise and leadership of virtual teams to deliver the desired end result
• Demonstrable experience of managing across a number of services and customers
• Ability to adapt and prioritise workloads
• Be open minded, positive, creative, and collaborative

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

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