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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