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Phoenix Software Limited

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1990

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Phoenix Software Limited is a technology company that specializes in providing comprehensive IT solutions and managed services. They offer a wide range of services including managed IT, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data analytics, AI innovations, software licensing, and more. Phoenix Software is dedicated to empowering organizations to optimize their IT investments, enhance data security, foster collaboration, and implement sustainable IT practices to achieve their business objectives.

📋 Description

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders, providing strategic guidance across technology, digital, and organisational change initiatives • Lead the development of enterprise, digital, and technology strategies, aligning business objectives with architectural direction • Define and shape strategic roadmaps, ensuring clear prioritisation, sequencing, and delivery feasibility • Provide enterprise and security architecture leadership, setting direction, standards, and best practice across complex environments • Facilitate executive workshops and stakeholder engagements to support decision-making, alignment, and consensus building • Design and shape target operating models that enable organisational transformation and improved service outcomes • Support business case development and investment planning, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and value realisation • Establish and contribute to governance forums, providing oversight, challenge, and assurance on key decisions and programmes • Lead or support transformation planning and mobilisation, ensuring initiatives are set up for successful delivery • Conduct independent reviews and assurance activities to identify risk, provide insight, and improve delivery confidence • Provide thought leadership across strategy, architecture, and assurance disciplines within customer engagements and internally • Collaborate across Phoenix teams to support business development, bids, and the growth of the ESAA capability • Contribute to the development of ESAA methodologies, frameworks, and propositions • Build strong, trusted relationships across customer organisations and wider stakeholders • Help customers navigate complexity, reduce risk, and achieve successful, sustainable outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience influencing strategy, architecture, or transformation in complex environments • Strong understanding across areas such as enterprise strategy, technology, cyber security, and architecture • Ability to engage and build credibility with senior stakeholders and executive teams • Skilled at translating complex challenges into clear, practical direction • Experience providing governance, assurance, and constructive challenge • Strong analytical thinking and sound decision-making capability • Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills • Ability to lead through influence and build strong, collaborative relationships • Comfortable working in ambiguity and balancing strategic vision with delivery realities • Public sector experience desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• A culture built on trust and belonging: set out clearly in our Culture Blueprint, lived day-to-day, and reflected in our consistently strong colleague feedback. • Real investment in your development: structured learning pathways, funded industry certifications, mentoring, and the encouragement to stretch into new areas. • A workplace that takes wellbeing seriously: from mental health support and flexible working to active employee networks and a leadership team that listens. • A commitment to equity and inclusion: where we actively work to make Phoenix a brilliant place to build a career, whoever you are. • Work that matters: supporting the public sector organisations that keep the UK running, from government and healthcare to defence, public safety, education, housing, and the charities serving the most vulnerable in our communities. • Working with the best of the industry: alongside genuine experts, and with strategic partnerships across the world's leading technology providers, you'll be at the front of the conversations shaping how UK public services modernise.