CTO Defence

About The Role

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

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

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