Clearance: SC minimum; DV strongly preferred
Location: Predominantly Remote with occasional travel to either South / Midlands offices/customer sites.

Our client’s Defence business is scaling its digital services footprint and requires a senior pre-sales technologist with genuine defence domain experience. You’ll partner with the BD lead, shape mission-aligned solutions, and drive services-led growth across secure IT, cyber, data and digital transformation programmes.

What You’ll Do

• Engage with Defence Digital, DE&S, MOD and StratCom, and industry primes where partnering on projects
• Run technical discovery, problem framing, and service design workshops
• Shape solutions across a range of services, including:
• Secure networks & hosting
• Digital workplace
• Data / AI / analytics
• Cyber security & resilience
• Managed services & ITSM/SIAM models
• Build pre-sales artefacts: architectures, roadmaps, service definitions, high-level designs
• Support bids and proposals with delivery and commercial teams
• Act as the technical authority during early capture
• Build credible technical trust quickly with defence stakeholders

Essential Experience

• Deep defence domain exposure (Defence Digital, DE&S, STRATCOM, etc.)
• SC clearance (DV desirable)
• Strong pre-sales capability: discovery, shaping, solution definition
• Broad secure IT understanding: networking, cloud, hosting, cyber, data, enterprise services
• Experience and networks within SIs/defence integrators (e.g. DXC, Leidos, Sopra, CGI, BAE, Atos etc.)

Nice to Have

• Military background + commercial experience
• Exposure to cyber operations / defensive cyber