Vertical Lead, Policy & National Security

The role

You will own technical outcomes for the Policy and National Security vertical. You will set technical approaches to win business, own solution architecture and delivery, and lead the technical team.

What you will do

• Own the technical approach across the vertical's capture efforts.
• Partner with the Head of Vertical to ensure products meet user needs.
• Build and maintain relationships with UK and allied national security technology partners.
• Advise commercial leadership on product-market fit and solution architectures.
• Turn vertical needs into product features and requests.
• Own technical architecture and delivery from scoping through deployment.
• Direct Implementation Delivery Managers on large and strategic accounts.
• Staff accounts based on complexity.
• Work with EPD and core engineering to build solution designs.
• Own the vertical's customer support obligations.

Required qualifications

• Led complex technical programs for government.
• Architect who has also run delivery.
• Experienced handling sensitive and classified data.
• Experienced delivering software inside accredited, controlled environments.

Nice to have

• 12+ years of technical experience spanning enterprise/solution architecture, deployment, and product development, including leading technical teams and complex, customer-facing deployments end-to-end.
• Deep public sector experience, ideally in defence, intelligence, or national security.
• Solution architecture depth across cloud (AWS or Azure), data engineering (Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks), complex system integrations (REST APIs, SSO/SAML), and containerized deployments (Kubernetes
• A track record partnering with commercial teams on pre-sales, capture, and expansion.
• People-leadership experience: hiring, growing, and holding the bar for a team of technical delivery staff.
• Existing SC (or higher, e.g. DV) is a strong plus.

Before you apply

• Must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
• Must be able to work on-site with customers as the mission requires.
• Hold, or are eligible and willing to obtain, UK Security Check (SC) clearance.

About the company

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Its AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy.