Technical Director

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Faculty Full time

About the role


Our Technical Directors play a vital role in shaping the overall technical strategy for their business unit alongside assembling and managing the highly skilled team to deliver innovative solutions for our customers.

In this case, we are looking for some to lead our Defence Business Unit. 


Please note that due to the nature of our current project requirements, applicants must either hold or be eligible to hold valid a certain level of clearance, preferably Developed Vetting (DV). Faculty will cover in full any costs associated with this process.

What you’ll be doing

As part of your day-to-day job, you can expect your key responsibilities to include:

Technical Delivery 

Providing oversight of highly complex technical work, supporting and steering delivery teams when needed

Identifying products, tools and processes to improve/enhance our ability to deliver quality

Advising on matters of solution architecture, advanced modelling and engineering by bringing your own extensive technical background of developing both infrastructure and modelling software in resource-constrained settings 

Leadership 

Building a team focused on best-in-class technical excellence and delivery by setting standards, defining ways of working and championing best practice 

Overseeing the professional development and learning for technologists in the team 

Co-owning the overall strategy for the Defence Unit incl. designing team structure, managing budgets, coordinating staffing and recruitment and managing performance

Business Development 

Identifying new technical markets to pursue/ technologies to build and equally, potential customer and partners opportunities within those markets

Working with Business Directors, and the commercial team to land and expand market opportunities

Delivering as the technical authority in meetings with senior client stakeholders



Who we’re looking for


To be successful in this role, you’ll have the unique ability to balance commercial, technical and strategic needs across multiple large-scale projects at a time, specifically in the Defence & National Security sectors.
We’ll need someone who is highly motivated to work within Defence and has a passion for delivering solutions to some of the world's most interesting problems through the delivery of safe, impactful and human-led AI.

In particular you’ll:

Be an established technology leader with a track record of leading both the strategy and the delivery of projects in the AI / Machine Learning space

Have the ability to communicate complex, technical information to internal and external stakeholders

Ideally have experience in the Defence/National Security sector in particular within resource-constrained settings e.g. denied environments, edge and on-device 

Come from a hands-on background with real-world deployment experience of machine learning or AI applications in production and architecting hardware/software systems

Show strong commercial aptitude, with the ability to maximise commercial, technical and strategic needs during end-to-end scoping of a project.

Align with Faculty’s ethical approach to working in the Defence and National Security sector. 



Beyond all of this, your attitude and behaviour are just as important as your skill and experience. We look for individuals who are empirical, support our values, foster our culture and want to deliver for our organisation.

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