Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Chief Technology Officer

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Requisition ID: 121566

Location: Gloucester, Guildford, London, Manchester – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG14

Referral Bonus: £5,000

Role Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to guide the NS & G BU, its teams and communities, and influence its senior customer stakeholders in how best to intercept and take advantage of technology evolution in terms of its impact on the market.

The role holder requires a depth of knowledge across multiple technology domains and understands the impact of these on NS & G performance, business strategy and delivery efficiency. The holder will understand and factor how technological change will impact future demand and the requirements this drives in terms of changes to the capability of the organisation.

The role is accountable for the adoption and exploitation of technology in customer solutions as a key differentiator for the business.

The role requires a good understanding of technology in the industry and market sector, including competitor strategy, activity and latest leading edge industrial and academic developments.

The role must understand customer requirements within NS & G and works with the customer at the most senior level to influence their thinking and explain technology options and their implications and through this shapes our opportunity advantage.

At this level the role provides advice and guidance to the NS & G Leadership Team and exerts influence to ensure appropriate technologies are adopted.

Chartered Engineer status preferable but not mandatory.

Minimum of SC clearance.

Role Accountabilities:

1. Apply leadership to ensure technology strategies, structures, processes, resources and research is in place to deliver current and future business strategies across all technology domains.
2. Engage with technology leaders across Digital Intelligence, BAE Systems and in relevant external research organisations.
3. Accountable for the NS & G Technology and Services Strategy (as related to delivering business strategy) including the identification of opportunities for repeatable services or products which will serve to differentiate BAE Systems in the NS & G Market.
4. Lead the successful development of business cases to enable the development of Products and Services to support NS & G business objectives.
5. Accountable for the portfolio of NS & G Products and Services and their development.
6. Accountable for the development of NS & G Products and Services to meet the needs of Digital Intelligence.
7. Collaborate at business senior management team level such that technology impact is fully considered, understood and accounted for by the business management team through incorporation in business strategies.
8. Influence business leaders including the business senior management team, Engineers and Account Directors.
9. Maintain knowledge of home market technology base and identify key technologies for introduction into the business.
10. Provide oversight and thought leadership (through design reviews, technical reviews and solution reviews) to the engineering activities undertaken in NS & G.
11. Foster a culture of Technology innovation among account teams in developing solutions to our customers\’ challenges.
12. Work with customers to build relationships and confidence in the business, develop and influence development of customer technology requirements and influence their adoption of company proposed solutions.
13. Identify suitable external contacts, build, develop and maintain an external profile within the field and influence or guide technology development to suit the strategic aims and objectives of the business.
14. Research and acquire solutions from outside the business, represent NS & G and technology in drafting new standards and regulations.
15. Sign off engineering concepts and solutions which are considered to embody sufficient technology differentiation with acceptable or sufficiently mitigated technical risk and which are considered legally compliant.
16. Be an inspirational thought-leader in the respective Engineering domain and enthuse the community toward its aims and aspirations.
17. Build productive working relationships with other areas of the business in order to maximise the visibility of NS & G to the wider organisation.
18. Develop and commission thought leadership outputs (blogs, white papers, conference presentations). Maintain and develop professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
19. Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal and professional standards.
20. Play an active role in business development activities, providing compelling collateral for bids and sales pitches and driving the engineering and technology direction for large bid responses.
21. Drive technology collaboration across Digital Intelligence as part of the senior Technology Community.

Relevant Experience:

• Engineering leadership of teams sizes of 30+ staff members.
• Engineering Leadership of different types of programme and project, including but not limited to: Delivery Partner, Build Partner, SIAM and Assurance, with a value of £10M+.
• Engineering Leadership of different types of bid/procurement work, including but not limited to: DOS, CCS Frameworks, GCloud, with a value of £10M+.
• Engineering Leadership in client and supply side roles with clients similar to the NS & G clients which include: HO, FCDO, UKHSA, DfE, NR, NH, Met Office and MoJ.
• Requires a depth of knowledge across multiple technology domains and fully understands the impact of these on product performance, business strategy and future business performance.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

PLEASE NOTE: You\’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development. We know there may be individual circumstances that impact this, so please discuss this with your line manager or HR Business Partner (HRBP). If you don\’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.

Should you be invited for interview, you will be giving consent for the Recruitment team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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