Strategic Tech Lead — Policy & National Security

Altana Technologies, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Altana is seeking a Vertical Technology Lead for Policy & National Security in London. You will own the technical outcomes end-to-end, guiding architecture, delivery, and partnerships to deliver mission-critical outcomes in secured environments.

You will lead a team across capture, design, and deployment, ensuring technical credibility with government partners while maintaining Altana’s high standards for security and compliance. Hybrid work in the UK is offered.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical experience spanning enterprise/solution architecture, deployment, and product development.
• Experience leading technical teams and complex, customer-facing deployments end-to-end.
• Deep public sector experience, ideally in defence, intelligence, or national security.
• Architectural depth across cloud (AWS or Azure), data engineering (Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks), REST APIs, SSO/SAML, and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience partnering with commercial teams on pre-sales, capture, and expansion — turning customer outcomes into technical product specs and credible delivery paths.
• People-leadership experience: hiring, growing, and maintaining a skilled technical delivery team.
• UK-based, with right to work in the United Kingdom, and able to work on-site with customers as the mission requires.
• Hold, or be eligible and willing to obtain, UK Security Check (SC) clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical approach across the vertical's capture efforts; provide volumes, proposal content and material to win.
• Partner with the Head of Vertical to ensure offerings deliver on decision-makers needs and add technical credibility.
• Build and maintain relationships with technology partners across the UK and allied security ecosystem.
• Advise commercial leadership on product-market fit and whether proposed architectures close capability gaps.
• Turn vertical needs into clear, cross-cutting product features and requests that matter to customers and pipeline.
• Own the architecture and delivery for the vertical's accounts from scoping through deployment in secure environments.
• Direct Implementation Delivery Managers on large and strategic accounts and staff accounts by complexity.
• Collaborate with EPD and core engineering on solution designs and drive last-mile development where needed.
• Ensure deployments meet security, risk, and compliance obligations and maintain contractual delivery standards.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Cloud platforms

Pre-sales collaboration

Team leadership

Secure environments

Tools

AWS

Azure

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

REST APIs

SAML / SSO

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Altana is seeking a Vertical Technology Lead for Policy & National Security in London. You will own the technical outcomes end-to-end, guiding architecture, delivery, and partnerships to deliver mission-critical outcomes in secured environments.

You will lead a team across capture, design, and deployment, ensuring technical credibility with government partners while maintaining Altana’s high standards for security and compliance. Hybrid work in the UK is offered.