Product Technical Lead Digital Trust

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83000 employees on five continents. With over 7500 people in the UK operating across defence space aerospace and digital security we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Location: Ebbw Vale Reading Crawley Bristol Templecombe and Cheadle (any Thales office)

Step into a role where your cyber expertise shapes nationallevel resilience and the future of secure critical systems!

What the role has to offer

• Enterprise-wide technical influence shaping consequence informed securebydesign and AIenabled security technologies and steering the evolution of Thales future cyber design capabilities

• Own the UK Digital Trust technical strategy ensuring consequence informed SbD principles are embedded from concept to decommissioning.

• Lead development of design patterns for Zero Trust Architecture including supporting and guiding on the adaption for products identification of variance and applicability segmentation continuous verification and policy-driven access.

• Define and evolve Data-Centric Security model product including the classification tagging encryption attribute-based access control strategies.

• Contribute to the global approach to DCS across the wider Thales enterprise.

• Drive inclusion of cryptographic architecture into solutions including

  • PQC-ready design patterns

  • Hybrid classical/PQC key exchange

  • Cryptographic agility frameworks

  • Secure key management and HSM integration

• Develop defensible design patterns for high-assurance systems ensuring alignment with NCSC NIST ETSI and sector specific standards.

• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams guiding implementation testing and assurance.

• Engage with senior stakeholders translating complex trust and crypto 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.

• Innovation leadership driving nextgeneration of security capabilities defining and using new technologies and architecture patterns such as ZTA DCS and SbD leveraging AI opportunities and shaping Thales longterm cyber resilience strategy.

Our Opportunity

You will lead the technical direction for our Digital Trust capability shaping how we design assure and deploy trust-enabling technologies across complex multi-domain environments. This includes Secure-by-Design (SbD) engineering Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) Data-Centric Security (DCS) and the integration of advanced cryptographic technologies such as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) into modern design patterns.

This is a role for someone who can operate at architecture engineering and governance levels simultaneously and individual who can define the blueprint assure the implementation and influence the organisation.

Building a Future we can all trust.

Are you looking for the opportunity to directly shape and deliver world-class solutions to our customers If so then Engineering & Technical Management may be just the ticket. Whether focusing on leading large teams or working as a technical expert roles in this area provide you with an opportunity to shape the world we live in today.

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

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held however if not currently held it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo achieve and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD a dual national from a non-ITAR country may be considered.

To be eligible for full SC you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 some circumstances a minimum of 3 years residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted with additional overseas checks.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance:

Thales we ensure equal opportunities pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance buying or selling annual leave cycle to work schemes employee discounts paid volunteering day stocks and shares annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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