CTO Defence

About

The Role We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

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 Strat Com), 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 SpecificationA strategic thinker, professionally curious with a desire to learn and growA 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  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…