Chief Digital Technology Officer - Ministry of Defence - SCS2

Operating as part of the Functional Senior Leadership Team to promote and embed the Digital Strategy Defence. As part of the Functional Leadership operating model this post is responsible for leading strategic change, including implementing and governing standards, for technology, AI and architecture across Defence.

Responsible for setting the architectural compliance that all digital projects across defence must comply with, using the CTO Council to bring the CTOs from Defence together to build relationships across Defence, International Partners, HMG and Suppliers and ensure understanding and strategic thinking across the group, prioritising core activities and agree the delivery aims from business initiatives and external influencers.

Lead innovation efforts to access and integrate emerging technologies, such as AI and Quantum, to support Defence Strategy at pace.

Collaborate across the Function, wider Defence, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and government to align innovation with business relevance and strategic goals.

Develop and oversee the compliance framework that ensures a continual evolution of modern capability that drives cohesion, integration, and interoperability, including exploitation of cloud.

Manage the relationships across Defence and with relevant, high-profile, external stakeholders (including industry, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Five Eyes (FVEY) community to strengthen relevance and access innovation.

Define the technology compliance expectations.

With Director Cyber Defence and Risk, ensure security technology fits with wider technology architecture.

Define the technology compliance expectations.

With Director Cyber Defence and Risk, ensure security technology fits with wider technology architecture.

Maintain and evolve a common enterprise technical architecture with supporting standards in explicit support of strategic outcomes.

Maintain a supporting implementation plan and propose / agree the funding and oversee delivery.

Manage the Architecture cadre, ensure its health and application to drive standards.

Own the vision and design of a common digital technology architecture to support Defence Strategy, working with leaders across the function.

Lead the Digital Foundry (which is a software factory) and change capability that promotes the ability to build software solutions at pace and which demonstrates modernity.

Support the Foundry to drive pace on exploitation and re-use of common technology.

Drive up maturity of digital platforms and their use pan Defence.