Location This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a CPS office is located. Whilst it's an expectation of the role to travel to CPS locations as per business needs, CPS is disability confident employer and all reasonable adjustments will be considered in line with Equality Act of 2010. About the job Job summary The Lead Technical Architect operates at a strategic level within the Digital and Information Directorate (DID), reporting to the Principal Technical and Enterprise Architect. The role is pivotal in shaping the technical direction of digital services across multiple teams and projects. Its primary purpose is to ensure that systems are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with organisational and government standards. Key responsibilities include guiding technical design, making critical architectural decisions, and assuring solution quality through reviews and adherence to architecture principles. The role promotes reuse, interoperability, and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and services to deliver better value. Beyond technical oversight, the Lead Technical Architect plays a leadership role in mentoring other architects and technical staff, fostering continuous learning and professional development. They will be a leader in the architecture community, embedding best practices and driving innovation and architectural alignment across delivery teams. Strategically, the position requires maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, government digital strategies, and socio-political trends to ensure architectural decisions remain forward-looking. The architect will engage senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and inform planning and investment decisions. The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role . There's no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities. Job description Your roles and responsibilities: You define and own technical architecture for complex digital services, ensuring alignment with organisational and government standards (e.g., GDS framework). You provide strategic technical leadership, influencing design decisions and guiding delivery teams across multiple projects. You assure solution quality through architecture reviews, governance, and adherence to enterprise principles such as scalability, security, and interoperability. You promote reuse and shared platforms, identifying opportunities for cross-government collaboration and cost-effective solutions. You mentor and develop technical staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the architecture community. You engage senior stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value and influencing investment decisions. You stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, ensuring architectural decisions remain innovative and future-proof. You lead on risk management and compliance, including security standards and technical assurance processes. You champion best practices, embedding agile and DevOps principles into architecture and delivery approaches. A copy of the full job description is attached. Person specification To be eligible to apply, you need to: Have substantial experience in technical architecture, including designing and assuring complex digital services that meet organisational and relevant sector standards, preferably HMG standards. Demonstrate strategic thinking, with the ability to see the bigger picture, align technical decisions to long-term organisational goals, and anticipate emerging technologies and trends. Show leadership capability, including mentoring technical staff, fostering professional development, and leading architecture communities to embed best practices. Possess strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence senior leaders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. Be adept at promoting reuse and interoperability, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration to deliver value. Have a proven ability to assure solution quality, through governance, reviews, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles such as scalability, security, and sustainability. Understand agile and DevSecOps practices, working with these principles in architecture and delivery approaches. Hold or be eligible for SC clearance, as this is mandatory for the role. You also need to demonstrate the following technical skills: Cyber Security Architecture Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Networking Integration & Middleware
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
Location This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a CPS office is located. Whilst it's an expectation of the role to travel to CPS locations as per business needs, CPS is disability confident employer and all reasonable adjustments will be considered in line with Equality Act of 2010. About the job Job summary The Lead Technical Architect operates at a strategic level within the Digital and Information Directorate (DID), reporting to the Principal Technical and Enterprise Architect. The role is pivotal in shaping the technical direction of digital services across multiple teams and projects. Its primary purpose is to ensure that systems are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with organisational and government standards. Key responsibilities include guiding technical design, making critical architectural decisions, and assuring solution quality through reviews and adherence to architecture principles. The role promotes reuse, interoperability, and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and services to deliver better value. Beyond technical oversight, the Lead Technical Architect plays a leadership role in mentoring other architects and technical staff, fostering continuous learning and professional development. They will be a leader in the architecture community, embedding best practices and driving innovation and architectural alignment across delivery teams. Strategically, the position requires maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, government digital strategies, and socio-political trends to ensure architectural decisions remain forward-looking. The architect will engage senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and inform planning and investment decisions. The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role . There's no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities. Job description Your roles and responsibilities: You define and own technical architecture for complex digital services, ensuring alignment with organisational and government standards (e.g., GDS framework). You provide strategic technical leadership, influencing design decisions and guiding delivery teams across multiple projects. You assure solution quality through architecture reviews, governance, and adherence to enterprise principles such as scalability, security, and interoperability. You promote reuse and shared platforms, identifying opportunities for cross-government collaboration and cost-effective solutions. You mentor and develop technical staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the architecture community. You engage senior stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business value and influencing investment decisions. You stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, ensuring architectural decisions remain innovative and future-proof. You lead on risk management and compliance, including security standards and technical assurance processes. You champion best practices, embedding agile and DevOps principles into architecture and delivery approaches. A copy of the full job description is attached. Person specification To be eligible to apply, you need to: Have substantial experience in technical architecture, including designing and assuring complex digital services that meet organisational and relevant sector standards, preferably HMG standards. Demonstrate strategic thinking, with the ability to see the bigger picture, align technical decisions to long-term organisational goals, and anticipate emerging technologies and trends. Show leadership capability, including mentoring technical staff, fostering professional development, and leading architecture communities to embed best practices. Possess strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence senior leaders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. Be adept at promoting reuse and interoperability, identifying opportunities for shared platforms and cross-organisation and cross-government collaboration to deliver value. Have a proven ability to assure solution quality, through governance, reviews, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles such as scalability, security, and sustainability. Understand agile and DevSecOps practices, working with these principles in architecture and delivery approaches. Hold or be eligible for SC clearance, as this is mandatory for the role. You also need to demonstrate the following technical skills: Cyber Security Architecture Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Networking Integration & Middleware
We are looking to hire a new role and bring someone in as our Head of Product Security, a key leadership role within our Information Security team. In this role you will shape how Our Future Health builds secure, trusted products at national scale. You'll lead the security engineering and architecture functions, ensuring they provide clear and pragmatic guidance to product, engineering, and wider technical teams. Your work centres on embedding secure by design thinking, strengthening how the organisation understands and manages risk, and helping teams see security as an enabler that supports delivery rather than slowing it down. You'll also contribute hands on technical input to complex architectural decisions where your expertise adds real value. Alongside this strategic impact, you'll manage and develop a growing team, ensuring smooth day to day operations and a culture of continuous improvement. The role needs empathetic people leadership, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to influence across a fast moving, agile environment. With an engineering background and solid security architecture experience, you'll bring the technical credibility and collaborative approach needed to guide teams, shape priorities, and drive the future direction of product security. At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention,detectionand treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We're looking for people to join us on our journey. If you're looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we're keen to speak with you. What you'll be doing Acting as deputy to the Director of Information Security, supporting security strategy and leadership alongside the Head of Cyber Defence. Leading the security consultancy and technical security functions, covering core services such as IAM, vulnerability management, threat modelling, and secure base image maintenance. Serving as the primary contact for security consultancy, delegating work across the team as needed. Overseeing security architecture and engineering for our cloud native (Azure) production and corporate platforms. Driving continuous improvement, prioritising enhancements and maturing operational documentation. Line managing a multidisciplinary security team, including security engineers, application security specialists, and a security architect. Coaching and mentoring team members across all security disciplines. Advising product, engineering, and data squads on embedding security into their work and processes. Communicating security risks, threats, and requirements to both technical and non technical colleagues. Promoting security standardisation and consistency across platforms. Collaborating with technical and data architects on broader architectural decisions. Supporting organisational compliance by ensuring colleagues and contractors understand and meet their security responsibilities. What you won't be doing Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions. Working in a place where you can't see the impact your expertise makes. To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience: Proven ability to manage and develop high performing security teams while fostering a collaborative, people centred environment. Demonstrable experience partnering with product teams to integrate security requirements into roadmaps, balancing security with usability and overall user experience. Previous experience working with DevSecOps or similar delivery models, embedding security in a way that supports rapid, iterative development. Experience designing secure cloud native architectures at both conceptual and detailed technical levels. Familiarity with Microsoft security technologies such as Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview. An understanding of modern software engineering practices including source control, testing, code review, design documentation, and effective debugging. Advanced knowledge of security risk management and threat modelling. Solid understanding of core security controls, including cloud security, IAM, network security, and vulnerability management. Knowledge of modern cloud platforms, particularly Azure. Awareness of ISO 27001 and other widely used security standards. Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally including Terraform. Experience working in Agile environments. The ability to communicate clearly between technical and non technical teams. Comfortable operating in a fast paced, small team environment. Relevant professional certifications. Salary from £110,000 per annum. Generous Pension Scheme - We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays - Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you. Enhanced Parental Leave - Supporting you during life's biggest moments. Cycle to Work Scheme - Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice. Home & Tech Savings - Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus - Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board! Wellbeing Support - Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family. A Great Place to Work - We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together. At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
We are looking to hire a new role and bring someone in as our Head of Product Security, a key leadership role within our Information Security team. In this role you will shape how Our Future Health builds secure, trusted products at national scale. You'll lead the security engineering and architecture functions, ensuring they provide clear and pragmatic guidance to product, engineering, and wider technical teams. Your work centres on embedding secure by design thinking, strengthening how the organisation understands and manages risk, and helping teams see security as an enabler that supports delivery rather than slowing it down. You'll also contribute hands on technical input to complex architectural decisions where your expertise adds real value. Alongside this strategic impact, you'll manage and develop a growing team, ensuring smooth day to day operations and a culture of continuous improvement. The role needs empathetic people leadership, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to influence across a fast moving, agile environment. With an engineering background and solid security architecture experience, you'll bring the technical credibility and collaborative approach needed to guide teams, shape priorities, and drive the future direction of product security. At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention,detectionand treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We're looking for people to join us on our journey. If you're looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we're keen to speak with you. What you'll be doing Acting as deputy to the Director of Information Security, supporting security strategy and leadership alongside the Head of Cyber Defence. Leading the security consultancy and technical security functions, covering core services such as IAM, vulnerability management, threat modelling, and secure base image maintenance. Serving as the primary contact for security consultancy, delegating work across the team as needed. Overseeing security architecture and engineering for our cloud native (Azure) production and corporate platforms. Driving continuous improvement, prioritising enhancements and maturing operational documentation. Line managing a multidisciplinary security team, including security engineers, application security specialists, and a security architect. Coaching and mentoring team members across all security disciplines. Advising product, engineering, and data squads on embedding security into their work and processes. Communicating security risks, threats, and requirements to both technical and non technical colleagues. Promoting security standardisation and consistency across platforms. Collaborating with technical and data architects on broader architectural decisions. Supporting organisational compliance by ensuring colleagues and contractors understand and meet their security responsibilities. What you won't be doing Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions. Working in a place where you can't see the impact your expertise makes. To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience: Proven ability to manage and develop high performing security teams while fostering a collaborative, people centred environment. Demonstrable experience partnering with product teams to integrate security requirements into roadmaps, balancing security with usability and overall user experience. Previous experience working with DevSecOps or similar delivery models, embedding security in a way that supports rapid, iterative development. Experience designing secure cloud native architectures at both conceptual and detailed technical levels. Familiarity with Microsoft security technologies such as Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview. An understanding of modern software engineering practices including source control, testing, code review, design documentation, and effective debugging. Advanced knowledge of security risk management and threat modelling. Solid understanding of core security controls, including cloud security, IAM, network security, and vulnerability management. Knowledge of modern cloud platforms, particularly Azure. Awareness of ISO 27001 and other widely used security standards. Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally including Terraform. Experience working in Agile environments. The ability to communicate clearly between technical and non technical teams. Comfortable operating in a fast paced, small team environment. Relevant professional certifications. Salary from £110,000 per annum. Generous Pension Scheme - We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays - Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you. Enhanced Parental Leave - Supporting you during life's biggest moments. Cycle to Work Scheme - Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice. Home & Tech Savings - Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus - Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board! Wellbeing Support - Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family. A Great Place to Work - We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together. At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at
The Independent Football Regulator The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve. The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection. The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football. About the role This role provides strategic leadership and operational ownership of cyber security across the IFR, a small but high profile organisation. You will be responsible for developing, embedding and maturing a robust, proportionate cyber security and broader organisational security framework that protects the organisation's people, data, systems and services. Responsibilities will include: Developing, embedding, maturing and leading the organisation's cyber security strategy, governance, resilience and assurance activity. Overseeing all aspects of cyber security operations, including incident response, threat monitoring, vulnerability management and security operations Owning the wider organisational security framework, including physical security, information governance, data protection and resilience planning. Setting clear security management expectations and embedding a strong, resilient and effective security awareness culture across a small but high profile organisation. Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and government security standards, including Government Functional Standard GovS 007: Security. Providing authoritative advice to the CEO, COO, CDDO, ExCo and Board on emerging threats, risks and mitigations. Implementing a formal cyber exercising and incident response programme; driving security and operational resilience. Embedding secure by design principles across digital services, data platforms and operational processes. Ensuring the cyber security framework aligns with the regulator's digital and data roadmap. Establishing ambitious and effective cyber maturity credentials; leading on assurance, penetration testing, risk assessments and audit readiness. Implementing audit recommendations and ensuring timely remediation of identified risks. Overseeing identity and access management, cloud security and supplier assurance. Essential Requirements: Significant experience of operating effectively in cyber security leadership roles. Extensive knowledge of cyber risk management, governance and assurance frameworks including: NCSC guidance, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and NIST frameworks. Strong understanding of data protection, privacy and information governance. Proven experience managing security operations, incident response and threat intelligence. Ability to oversee supplier risk and ensure robust third party assurance. Experience driving measurable security improvements. Experience leading cyber incidents, including response co-ordination and exercising. Excellent communication skills, including briefing senior leadership and boards. Eligibility for appropriate government security clearance. Desirable Skills: Experience working with or within regulators, sports bodies or government organisations. Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP or equivalent. Understanding of AI related security risks and model assurance. Knowledge of DevSecOps and secure software development practices. Experience maturing a security function. Familiarity with physical security, operational resilience and business continuity. If successful you will join a Non Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant. If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension. The terms and conditions of employment include: Pension 12% An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%. Flexible Benefit 8% Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax) Reward we will have a performance based reward programme. 31.5 days annual leave Flexible and hybrid working, 40% in office attendance Occupational sick pay 9 months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave. A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees Cycle-to-work scheme and much more! The Interview The interview process will assess experience through competency questions and potentially a presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, length of time, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview. Prior to the interview you will be sent the competency questions in advance. The questions will be based on the essential criteria listed on slide 7. Your interview will take place remotely via Teams. Further Information A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. The IFR has a location neutral pay scale. For more information on this, please see the 'Candidate Information Pack' attached Reasonable Adjustments We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. To request an adjustment, please email Accessibility If you are experiencing accessibility difficulties with any of the attachments, please contact us. Contact details can be found in the 'contact point for applicants' section of the job advert. Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Diversity and Inclusion The IFR is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. Contact point for applicants Email:
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
The Independent Football Regulator The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve. The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection. The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football. About the role This role provides strategic leadership and operational ownership of cyber security across the IFR, a small but high profile organisation. You will be responsible for developing, embedding and maturing a robust, proportionate cyber security and broader organisational security framework that protects the organisation's people, data, systems and services. Responsibilities will include: Developing, embedding, maturing and leading the organisation's cyber security strategy, governance, resilience and assurance activity. Overseeing all aspects of cyber security operations, including incident response, threat monitoring, vulnerability management and security operations Owning the wider organisational security framework, including physical security, information governance, data protection and resilience planning. Setting clear security management expectations and embedding a strong, resilient and effective security awareness culture across a small but high profile organisation. Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and government security standards, including Government Functional Standard GovS 007: Security. Providing authoritative advice to the CEO, COO, CDDO, ExCo and Board on emerging threats, risks and mitigations. Implementing a formal cyber exercising and incident response programme; driving security and operational resilience. Embedding secure by design principles across digital services, data platforms and operational processes. Ensuring the cyber security framework aligns with the regulator's digital and data roadmap. Establishing ambitious and effective cyber maturity credentials; leading on assurance, penetration testing, risk assessments and audit readiness. Implementing audit recommendations and ensuring timely remediation of identified risks. Overseeing identity and access management, cloud security and supplier assurance. Essential Requirements: Significant experience of operating effectively in cyber security leadership roles. Extensive knowledge of cyber risk management, governance and assurance frameworks including: NCSC guidance, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and NIST frameworks. Strong understanding of data protection, privacy and information governance. Proven experience managing security operations, incident response and threat intelligence. Ability to oversee supplier risk and ensure robust third party assurance. Experience driving measurable security improvements. Experience leading cyber incidents, including response co-ordination and exercising. Excellent communication skills, including briefing senior leadership and boards. Eligibility for appropriate government security clearance. Desirable Skills: Experience working with or within regulators, sports bodies or government organisations. Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP or equivalent. Understanding of AI related security risks and model assurance. Knowledge of DevSecOps and secure software development practices. Experience maturing a security function. Familiarity with physical security, operational resilience and business continuity. If successful you will join a Non Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant. If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension. The terms and conditions of employment include: Pension 12% An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%. Flexible Benefit 8% Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax) Reward we will have a performance based reward programme. 31.5 days annual leave Flexible and hybrid working, 40% in office attendance Occupational sick pay 9 months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave. A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees Cycle-to-work scheme and much more! The Interview The interview process will assess experience through competency questions and potentially a presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, length of time, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview. Prior to the interview you will be sent the competency questions in advance. The questions will be based on the essential criteria listed on slide 7. Your interview will take place remotely via Teams. Further Information A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. The IFR has a location neutral pay scale. For more information on this, please see the 'Candidate Information Pack' attached Reasonable Adjustments We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. To request an adjustment, please email Accessibility If you are experiencing accessibility difficulties with any of the attachments, please contact us. Contact details can be found in the 'contact point for applicants' section of the job advert. Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Diversity and Inclusion The IFR is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. Contact point for applicants Email:
Head of Platform Engineering - Peterborough Head of Platform Engineering with an excellent background in engineering, .NET / C#, DevOps, (including DevSecOps) and cloud is required by a leading company in Peterborough. It is a technical leadership role focused on DevOps and end-to-end technology estate. With a team of 10+, you will be turning architectural concepts into implementation reality, so very much a delivery role, being part of the senior leadership team. Experience required Been in a lead, manager or head of role .NET / C# and Microsoft stack experience Microservices and medallion architecture knowledge DevSecOps / DevOps capabilities Security compliance critical due to data-heavy operations Cloud hybrid journey experience Data platform appreciation You shall have Cross-platform responsibility (software and data), while having an open leadership style required you must embody the company values of integrity, innovation & respect. This person will have a very strong technical gravitas to hold their own with stakeholders and senior people in the business. Duties include: Own and define engineering standards, platform strategy, DevSecOps maturity, and production resilience across the organisation. Design and implement the operating model that enables rapid experimentation while ensuring robust, secure, and reliable operational systems. Influence and guide architectural direction, organisational structure, and long-term capability development. Strengthen governance around code quality, engineering practices, and technical discipline across teams. Drive automation, CI/CD maturity, and release processes to increase deployment confidence and reduce manual effort. Improve system resilience and reduce operational fragility through structural, strategic improvements rather than reactive firefighting. Lead the evolution of cloud foundations, observability, security, and recovery capabilities to support a modern, scalable technology estate. They are looking to pay a starting salary of £75,000 - £90,000 + Hybrid working of 2 days in the Peterborough office To apply press apply now or send your CV to Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.
Apr 01, 2026
Full time
Head of Platform Engineering - Peterborough Head of Platform Engineering with an excellent background in engineering, .NET / C#, DevOps, (including DevSecOps) and cloud is required by a leading company in Peterborough. It is a technical leadership role focused on DevOps and end-to-end technology estate. With a team of 10+, you will be turning architectural concepts into implementation reality, so very much a delivery role, being part of the senior leadership team. Experience required Been in a lead, manager or head of role .NET / C# and Microsoft stack experience Microservices and medallion architecture knowledge DevSecOps / DevOps capabilities Security compliance critical due to data-heavy operations Cloud hybrid journey experience Data platform appreciation You shall have Cross-platform responsibility (software and data), while having an open leadership style required you must embody the company values of integrity, innovation & respect. This person will have a very strong technical gravitas to hold their own with stakeholders and senior people in the business. Duties include: Own and define engineering standards, platform strategy, DevSecOps maturity, and production resilience across the organisation. Design and implement the operating model that enables rapid experimentation while ensuring robust, secure, and reliable operational systems. Influence and guide architectural direction, organisational structure, and long-term capability development. Strengthen governance around code quality, engineering practices, and technical discipline across teams. Drive automation, CI/CD maturity, and release processes to increase deployment confidence and reduce manual effort. Improve system resilience and reduce operational fragility through structural, strategic improvements rather than reactive firefighting. Lead the evolution of cloud foundations, observability, security, and recovery capabilities to support a modern, scalable technology estate. They are looking to pay a starting salary of £75,000 - £90,000 + Hybrid working of 2 days in the Peterborough office To apply press apply now or send your CV to Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.
Head of Platform Engineering - Peterborough Head of Platform Engineering with an excellent background in engineering, .NET / C#, DevOps, (including DevSecOps) and cloud is required by a leading company in Peterborough. It is a technical leadership role focused on DevOps and end-to-end technology estate. With a team of 10+, you will be turning architectural concepts into implementation reality, so v click apply for full job details
Mar 31, 2026
Full time
Head of Platform Engineering - Peterborough Head of Platform Engineering with an excellent background in engineering, .NET / C#, DevOps, (including DevSecOps) and cloud is required by a leading company in Peterborough. It is a technical leadership role focused on DevOps and end-to-end technology estate. With a team of 10+, you will be turning architectural concepts into implementation reality, so v click apply for full job details
