Product Technical Lead – Exercise and Training

🕒 August 28

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Thales

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1893

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Defense • Logistics • Consulting

Thales is a global technology leader specializing in advanced aerospace, defense, and security solutions. The company develops innovative systems that integrate cutting-edge AI technologies to provide trusted services and products across various industries, including secure data communication and smart transportation. Thales is committed to sustainability and corporate responsibility, ensuring digital ethics and diversity within its workforce while pushing the boundaries of technology for a safer and more connected world.

📋 Description

• Own the Exercise and Training technical strategy, defining the product and services SCT offer to UK customers • Lead architecture design of OT Range capabilities, including identity, segmentation, continuous verification, and policy-driven access • Define and evolve Exercise and Training products, including classification, tagging, encryption, and attribute-based access control strategies • Drive inclusion of Thales wider solutions into Exercise and Training capabilities, including Thales security products and solutions • Develop defensible design patterns for OT Exercising and assurance capabilities within the Ebbw Vale facility • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding implementation, testing, and assurance of Exercise and Training offers • Engage with senior stakeholders, translating complex exercise and training concepts into clear, actionable decisions • Shape internal standards, patterns, and governance, ensuring consistency across programmes • Represent the organisation externally, contributing to working groups, standards bodies, and partner ecosystems • Drive next-generation exercise and training capabilities using new technologies and architecture patterns, including AI opportunities • Shape Thales’ long-term OT cyber, Exercise and Training strategy • Lead the technical direction for Exercise and Training capability, shaping how Thales designs, assures, delivers, and deploys cyber-resilience exercises and OT training capabilities • Define technologies for Thales UK’s Cyber Exercise product offering • Work with technical leads in Ebbw Vale to define product needs and architectures for OT Training supporting MOD customers • Operate simultaneously at architecture engineering and governance levels by defining blueprints, assuring implementation, and influencing the organisation

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or a related technical field • Proven experience acting as a Technical Authority, Design Authority, or equivalent senior engineering role • Deep expertise in modern security engineering practices • Strong understanding of ICS/SCADA environments, industrial operations and processes, PLC/DCS/SIS environments, industrial networking, remote access in OT, OT incident response, and industrial safety considerations • Knowledge of the Purdue model, OT resilience principles, high-availability operations, and critical infrastructure environments • OT threat landscape awareness • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, adversary behaviours, industrial ransomware threats, OT detection and monitoring concepts, and incident response coordination • Risk communication and cyber awareness delivery • OT security governance and assurance understanding • Exercise facilitation and scenario management • Adult learning and instructional design principles • Development of technical training material • Executive briefing and communication skills • Workshop and stakeholder facilitation • Ability to simplify complex technical topics for varied audiences • Programme leadership • Cross-functional stakeholder engagement • Organisational change management • Strategic planning and roadmap development • Strong written and verbal communication • Ability to influence operational and executive stakeholders • Ability to design and review high-assurance architectures for regulated, mission-critical environments • Proven ability to lead complex technical decisions, challenge suppliers, and provide defensible recommendations • Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and maintain a strong external network • Security Clearance (SC) required; successful applicant must undergo, achieve, and maintain it • Generally, residence in the UK for the last 5 years is needed for full SC; in some circumstances, 3 years over the last 5 years may be accepted with additional overseas checks • Postgraduate degree (MSc/MEng) in Cyber Security, Systems Engineering, Industrial Automation, or a related field (desirable) • Experience in regulated environments such as defence, healthcare, policing, utilities, manufacturing, or critical infrastructure (desirable) • Professional certifications such as GICSP, GRID, ISA/IEC 62443, CISSP, or CISM (desirable) • Commitment to continuous learning and professional development

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-related bonus • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00 • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata) • 24 hours volunteering paid for • Private healthcare • Pension scheme • Life cover • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers • Gym membership discounts • Private medical insurance • Buying or selling annual leave • Cycle to work schemes • Employee discounts • Paid volunteering day • Stocks and shares • Annual bonus