Senior OT Compliance Lead — Assurance for Safer Roadside Tech

National Highways; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Lead Operational Technology Compliance Manager to provide specialist compliance leadership across its OT environment within the Digital Services Directorate. You will deliver independent assurance, partner with OTSE and supplier teams, and drive evidence-based improvements in governance and lifecycle compliance.

The role focuses on shaping how compliance is understood and demonstrated, ensuring safer, more reliable road services nationwide, and embedding assurance

Qualifications

• Experience operating in a quality-controlled environment (e.g., ISO 9001).
• Ability to provide independent assurance across OT lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of operational technology infrastructure and safety requirements.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Leading National Highways' Process for Roadside Technology Product Acceptance, championing its benefits and maintaining a clear, evidence-based view of compliance across the OT lifecycle. Overseeing supplier compliance submissions, supporting evidence, risks, findings and improvement actions, with clear escalation and reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Providing independent assurance and constructive challenge, ensuring products, projects and deployment decisions comply with applicable OT standards, requirements and that governance processes and are supported by sufficient, appropriate and traceable evidence. You'll achieve this by working closely with Quality and Test, the OTSE Team, the wider Digital Services Team, Commercial and Procurement and Operations.
• Embedding assurance early in delivery, working collaboratively with the OTSE Team, Quality and Test, projects, suppliers and wider stakeholders to identify and address risks early and support successful delivery of National Highways' strategic initiatives. Maintain a clear understanding of which standards and requirements apply at each stage of the OT lifecycle
• Assessing the impact of new or amended requirements on programmes, projects and existing OT assets, working with OTSE to ensure requirements are understood and appropriately incorporated across the OTSL, DMRB and MCHW requirements framework.
• Driving continuous improvement, building resilience in OT assurance, using findings, operational data, analytics and emerging AI tools to identify trends and systemic improvements, while building shared knowledge, effective cross-team support and a cohesive OT Test and Assurance service. Extending this across Digital Services and the wider delivery community and by playing a key role in evolving the Quality and Test Team's future approach to assurance

Job description

National Highways is seeking a Lead Operational Technology Compliance Manager to provide specialist compliance leadership across its OT environment within the Digital Services Directorate. You will deliver independent assurance, partner with OTSE and supplier teams, and drive evidence-based improvements in governance and lifecycle compliance.

The role focuses on shaping how compliance is understood and demonstrated, ensuring safer, more reliable road services nationwide, and embedding assurance