Head of Product Security; RATS

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Leonardo has an exciting opportunity to contribute at a senior governance level, to the design and certification of an expanding portfolio of world class Mission Critical and Flight Safety involved Airborne Systems. As part of the Engineering Governance organisation, working across the Radar and Advanced Targeting (RATS) product portfolio, you will be responsible for determining a basis of certification appropriate to the security threat.

Ideally, you will have practical experience of UK MOD Secure-by-Design, ISO
27001/27004/27005, NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST SP800-30/SP800-53. Knowledge of UK/NATO Information Assurance/Accreditation frameworks would be helpful as well as familiarity with the application of cyber resilience controls within embedded systems.

Working across the Sector product lines within the RATS Line of Business (LoB), you will support and advise the Chief Engineer (CE) Design Integrity (DI) to develop security and engineering management plans, resourced and executed by each of the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) under the oversight of an assigned Product Cyber Resilience Manager (PCRM). You will support the PCRMs guiding the engineering teams within the IPTs through the product lifecycle, managing the basis of certification and/or acceptance on behalf of the System Design Authority, to achieve successful delivery of the products.

You will also provide subject matter advice into the product maturity reviews, following the principles of Secure by Design.

A significant intrinsic factor of the role is the requirement for continuous improvement of the cyber resilience of Leonardo products. Leonardo will support you to develop yourself and the process capability of the business. Many Leonardo products exist at the ‘bleeding edge’ applying innovative technologies such as AI/ML, Autonomy, high‑assurance multicore processing, Electro‑Optics, and Model Based Systems Engineering. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and learn from these innovations.

The RATS products cover sensor and defensive applications such as Laser Directed Energy Weapons (LDEW), Infrared Countermeasure (IRCM), Integrated Sensing Radar, Surveillance Radar plus other Non‑Kinetic Effects products.

You’ll be involved in major UK and Global programmes such as Eurofighter Typhoon and Global Combat Air Program, together with many other Crewed and Un‑Crewed Airborne Platforms around the globe.

The RATS HoPS is responsible for the strategic elements of Product Security. They are accountable to the CE DI for performance of Product Security management within RATS, and accountable to the Leonardo Electronics UK Head of Product Security Capability for metrics and compliance reporting.

The HoPS has delegated authority from the RATS CE DI and is responsible for the following elements on their behalf:

• Manage Product Security processes, templates and guidance and oversee implementation.
• Use of KPIs to improve compliance, effectiveness and efficiency of the Product Security Management.
• Support sufficient and appropriate competency of PCRM or Product Security Management Specialist (PSMS) to meet RATS current and future needs.
• Advocate Product Security within DI and the wider RATS community.
• Production and reporting of RATS Product Security metrics as requested and directed by the Head of Product Security Capability.
• Attendance and support to the Product Security Special Interest Groups (SIG) and sub‑groups covering Governance and Technical topics.
• Assist the CE DI in performing their Governance responsibilities by supporting Design Maturity Reviews and the design certification process.
• Assist the CE DI in the management of current and future resourcing demands to meet RATS needs.
• Oversee the management of Product Security events or incidents within RATS.

The HoPS also supports the CE DI as a delegated signatory for product security, by undertaking the oversight of ensuring the correct design assurance, is applied to Leonardo products. The HoPS acts as a security assessor or security specialist. The HoPS will be required to have the relevant levels…