Public Sector Cyber Uplift Services Lead

Government Cyber Profession; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Government Cyber Unit is seeking an Associate Service Owner to shape and oversee the delivery of Cyber Uplift products at scale across the public sector. You'll lead agile teams, manage governance and assurance, build stakeholder relationships and drive measurable security improvements aligned to the Government Cyber Action Plan.

You'll work with security architects, policy teams and delivery partners to translate strategic priorities into practical roadmaps and funding proposals, ensuring

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning roadmap and delivery of a digital or cyber service.
• Ability to translate priorities into practical delivery plans.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Use of service data and operational insight to prioritise work.
• Ability to manage governance and funding processes.

Responsibilities

• define and own the service delivery of Cyber Uplift products that operate at scale for the whole public sector. Work closely with the Head of Cyber Products to ensure that products are coherent and deliver value, in alignment with cyber services’ strategic objectives
• prioritise areas of development that balance user needs, business requirements, performance and policy to drive continuous iterative improvement at different phases of the service life cycle
• lead the team’s agile working practices to develop a scalable and repeatable remediations catalogue to address cyber challenges faced by departments, generating management insights through internal teams and third-party suppliers/vendors
• identify measurable security benefits that represent good value for money alongside competing priorities, developing business cases to provide sustainable funding
• design and implement a long-term strategy and tactical approach for strategic decision-making, working with multidisciplinary teams and security architects to solve problems and share best practice
• build strong stakeholder relationships with departments, technical experts, business partnering and strategy teams to identify and overcome operational constraints, acting as the escalation point
• be a proactive and constructive Cyber Services leadership team member, developing new ideas to meet the Government Cyber Unit strategic vision and objectives
• adopt a user-centric and collaborative approach to manage a small team and define solutions to cyber challenges, evaluate outcomes, lessons learned, and provide insights for scaling or adoption within the wider organisation
• manage the governance and assurance processes to ensure that standards are met, continuously improved and effectively aligned to agreed business benefits and wider government needs

Skills

Roadmap ownership

Stakeholder management

Agile leadership

Cyber delivery

Risk management

Communication

Strategy development

Vendor management

Job description

The Government Cyber Unit is seeking an Associate Service Owner to shape and oversee the delivery of Cyber Uplift products at scale across the public sector. You'll lead agile teams, manage governance and assurance, build stakeholder relationships and drive measurable security improvements aligned to the Government Cyber Action Plan.

You'll work with security architects, policy teams and delivery partners to translate strategic priorities into practical roadmaps and funding proposals, ensuring