Product Technical Lead – Exercise and Training

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy for Exercise and Training, outlining the products and services that SCT provides to customers in the UK.

• Lead the architectural design of Operational Technology (OT) Range capabilities, focusing on identity, segmentation, continuous verification, and policy-driven access.

• Define and enhance Exercise and Training products, which include classification, tagging, encryption, and strategies for attribute-based access control.

• Promote the integration of Thales security products and solutions within Exercise and Training capabilities.

• Create defensible design patterns for OT Exercising and assurance capabilities based at the Ebbw Vale facility.

• Offer technical leadership to engineering teams, steering the implementation, testing, and assurance of Exercise and Training offerings.

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to convert complex exercise and training concepts into clear, actionable decisions.

• Establish internal standards, patterns, and governance across various programmes.

• Represent the organization in external working groups, standards bodies, and partner ecosystems.

• Propel next-generation exercise and training capabilities leveraging new technologies and architectural patterns, including opportunities in AI.

• Direct the technical strategy for the Exercise and Training capability.

• Specify technologies for Thales UK’s Cyber Exercise product offerings.

• Work alongside technical leads in Ebbw Vale to determine product requirements and architectures for OT Training catering to MOD customers.

• Operate concurrently at the architecture, engineering, and governance levels by defining blueprints, ensuring implementation, and influencing the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.

• Demonstrated experience in a Technical Authority, Design Authority, or a similar senior engineering position.

• Profound expertise in contemporary security engineering practices.

• Strong comprehension of ICS/SCADA environments, industrial operations and processes, PLC/DCS/SIS environments, industrial networking, remote access in OT, OT incident response, and considerations for industrial safety.

• Familiarity with the Purdue model, principles of OT resilience, high-availability operations, and critical infrastructure environments.

• Awareness of the OT threat landscape.

• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, adversary behaviors, industrial ransomware threats, OT detection and monitoring concepts, and incident response coordination.

• Competence in risk communication and delivery of cyber awareness.

• Understanding of OT security governance and assurance.

• Experience in exercise facilitation and scenario management.

• Familiarity with adult learning and instructional design principles.

• Development of technical training materials.

• Proficient in executive briefing and communication skills.

• Capable of facilitating workshops and engaging stakeholders.

• Ability to simplify complex technical subjects for diverse audiences.

• Experience in programme leadership.

• Engagement with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Knowledge of organizational change management.

• Strategic planning and roadmap development skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capability to influence both operational and executive stakeholders.

• Proficiency in designing and reviewing high-assurance architectures for regulated, mission-critical environments.

• Proven track record of leading complex technical decisions, challenging suppliers, and offering defensible recommendations.

• Established ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and maintain a robust external network.

• A strong commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.

• SC Clearance is required; the successful candidate must undergo, achieve, and maintain this clearance.

• Generally, eligibility for full SC clearance necessitates UK residence for the past 5 years; in certain cases, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, subject to additional overseas checks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-related bonus.

• Half-day every Friday, typically concluding around 13:00.

• 28 days of annual leave (in addition to bank holidays) with the option to purchase up to 40 hours per year (pro rata).

• 24 hours of paid volunteering.

• Private healthcare.

• Pension scheme.

• Life cover.

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to a mental wellbeing app.

• Employee discount shopping schemes with major brands and retailers.

• Discounts on gym memberships.

• Private medical insurance.

• Options for buying or selling annual leave.

• Cycle-to-work schemes.

• Paid volunteering day.

• Stocks and shares options.

• Annual bonus.