SF Partners
The National Lottery Community Fund - Director of Technology and Digital Salary: £95,000 - £100,000 + excellent benefits Location: UK (Hybrid) SF Technology are proud to be partnering with The National Lottery Community Fund on the search for a Director of Technology and Digital. Every year, The National Lottery Community Fund distributes hundreds of millions of pounds to projects that enriches communities across the UK. Behind that sits a complex technology and digital eco-system that now requires a leader capable of delivering innovation and inspiration to a team of over 70 technology and digital colleagues. This isn't a corporate 'keep the lights on' Directorship. It's an opportunity to shape how an entire organisation uses technology, digital services, automation and AI to improve experiences for colleagues, partners and the communities it serves. Reporting to the Chief Finance & Operating Officer and sitting on the Senior Management Team, you'll lead Technology & Digital across two established teams covering infrastructure, security, operations, digital platforms, service delivery, user experience/solution design and digital transformation. The Opportunity Technology and digital services are recognised as critical enablers of the Fund's strategy - It Starts with Community The foundations are in place - established teams, structures and strategies - but there is significant opportunity to implement leading edge platforms, simplify processes, increase automation and embed digital thinking across the organisation. Your focus will centre around three strategic priorities: - Oversight of the technology estate to maximise operational effectiveness across infrastructure, platforms, governance and service delivery. Alongside this, security over information assets and data remains paramount. - Developing and delivering an ambitious but responsible AI and automation strategy that enables innovation, creates measurable value across the organisation. - Leading cultural transformation by supporting over 850 colleagues embrace new operating processes, improve adoption and unlock better ways of working. This is a newly created and key role for the Fund at a point where a strategic leader is required to drive with pace and poise to ensure technology and digital functions are dynamic, forward thinking, connected and a highly engaged strategic partner. Success won't simply be measured by delivering technical projects. It will be measured by nurturing relationships across the fund ensuring technology and digital become genuine strategic enablers of solutions and outcomes for colleagues, grant applicants and communities throughout the UK. Key Responsibilities - Set the strategic direction for Technology and Digital, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities and driving delivery of the Fund's Digital Transformation Strategy and Technology Strategy, acting as a visible leader of cultural and organisational change. - Accountable for ensuring end-to-end grant making processes are modernised and designed with customer and colleague experience in mind. Digital services should always be accessible, inclusive, scalable and meet the needs of communities, applicants and colleagues. - Ensure a secure, modern, resilient and scalable technology infrastructure and operations, and maintaining robust IT governance and service management whilst demonstrating value for money in the investment of public funds at all times. - Lead the responsible adoption of data-driven analytics, and the responsible and well governed use of AI solutions which both identify efficiency and improve grant applicant/holder experiences to curate a data-first culture where data is clean and reliable and drives informed decision making. - Provide expert advice, insight and challenge to the Chief Finance and Operations Officer, Executive Committee, Board and relevant Committees on technology and digital capability, performance, risk (including cyber). - Shape and oversee prioritisation and investment across Technology and Digital, balancing innovation, operational stability and value for money, while building high-performing teams, digital capability, and a 'One Fund' approach to technology and digital solutions across the organisation. - Observing the Fund's vision and values, you will be a role model leader, focussed on developing and maintaining highly engaged and high performing teams with a customer centric mindset which add strategic value and ensures the Fund's technology and digital landscape support the Fund's climate commitments and net-zero plans. Personal profile We're looking for an experienced technology leader who combines strategic thinking with the ability to inspire You'll bring: - Significant experience leading technology and digital functions at scale within a complex organisation, with a clear track record of aligning capability to organisational priorities - Proven ability to operate at senior leadership level, contributing to organisational strategy and influencing decision making across Executive and Board-level stakeholders - Experience of leading large multi-disciplinary teams across multiple sites throughout the UK multiple specialist functions through senior leaders, establishing clear accountability, driving performance and enabling high-performing teams. - Proven track record delivering major digital transformation programmes, including modernisation of technology estates, platforms and digital services. - Experience leading organisational and cultural change in a technology context, including embedding new ways of working across a complex organisation. - Strong understanding of technology infrastructure, digital service design, data, analytics and emerging technologies including AI. - Experience establishing AI governance frameworks and leading the responsible adoption of emerging technologies at organisational scale. - Significant experience of delivering proven cyber security risk management solutions, and of establishing governance and control frameworks for technology and digital. - Experience of balancing competing priorities across innovation, operational stability, resilience and value for money. - Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to provide advice, insight and challenge to senior leaders, Boards and Committees. - Commercial and financial management of technology investment, including contract and supplier management. - Proven experience of high compliance with of public sector (or equivalent) standards, governance, and regulatory frameworks. Why join? If you have a strong sense of social purpose and responsibility and recognise the importance of developing everyone to their full potential. You will inherit experienced leadership, significant executive sponsorship and the opportunity to shape the technology strategy that supports thousands of community organisations across the country. Few technology leadership roles offer this level of strategic influence alongside such a clear social purpose. If you're looking for an opportunity where your leadership can genuinely improve lives across the UK, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply using the link below or contact Jack Stockport on (url removed). Director of Digital & Technology The National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund - Director of Technology and Digital Salary: £95,000 - £100,000 + excellent benefits Location: UK (Hybrid) SF Technology are proud to be partnering with The National Lottery Community Fund on the search for a Director of Technology and Digital. Every year, The National Lottery Community Fund distributes hundreds of millions of pounds to projects that enriches communities across the UK. Behind that sits a complex technology and digital eco-system that now requires a leader capable of delivering innovation and inspiration to a team of over 70 technology and digital colleagues. This isn't a corporate 'keep the lights on' Directorship. It's an opportunity to shape how an entire organisation uses technology, digital services, automation and AI to improve experiences for colleagues, partners and the communities it serves. Reporting to the Chief Finance & Operating Officer and sitting on the Senior Management Team, you'll lead Technology & Digital across two established teams covering infrastructure, security, operations, digital platforms, service delivery, user experience/solution design and digital transformation. The Opportunity Technology and digital services are recognised as critical enablers of the Fund's strategy - It Starts with Community The foundations are in place - established teams, structures and strategies - but there is significant opportunity to implement leading edge platforms, simplify processes, increase automation and embed digital thinking across the organisation. Your focus will centre around three strategic priorities: - Oversight of the technology estate to maximise operational effectiveness across infrastructure, platforms, governance and service delivery. Alongside this, security over information assets and data remains paramount. - Developing and delivering an ambitious but responsible AI and automation strategy that enables innovation, creates measurable value across the organisation. - Leading cultural transformation by supporting over 850 colleagues embrace new operating processes, improve adoption and unlock better ways of working. This is a newly created and key role for the Fund at a point where a strategic leader is required to drive with pace and poise to ensure technology and digital functions are dynamic, forward thinking, connected and a highly engaged strategic partner. Success won't simply be measured by delivering technical projects. It will be measured by nurturing relationships across the fund ensuring technology and digital become genuine strategic enablers of solutions and outcomes for colleagues, grant applicants and communities throughout the UK. Key Responsibilities - Set the strategic direction for Technology and Digital, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities and driving delivery of the Fund's Digital Transformation Strategy and Technology Strategy, acting as a visible leader of cultural and organisational change. - Accountable for ensuring end-to-end grant making processes are modernised and designed with customer and colleague experience in mind. Digital services should always be accessible, inclusive, scalable and meet the needs of communities, applicants and colleagues. - Ensure a secure, modern, resilient and scalable technology infrastructure and operations, and maintaining robust IT governance and service management whilst demonstrating value for money in the investment of public funds at all times. - Lead the responsible adoption of data-driven analytics, and the responsible and well governed use of AI solutions which both identify efficiency and improve grant applicant/holder experiences to curate a data-first culture where data is clean and reliable and drives informed decision making. - Provide expert advice, insight and challenge to the Chief Finance and Operations Officer, Executive Committee, Board and relevant Committees on technology and digital capability, performance, risk (including cyber). - Shape and oversee prioritisation and investment across Technology and Digital, balancing innovation, operational stability and value for money, while building high-performing teams, digital capability, and a 'One Fund' approach to technology and digital solutions across the organisation. - Observing the Fund's vision and values, you will be a role model leader, focussed on developing and maintaining highly engaged and high performing teams with a customer centric mindset which add strategic value and ensures the Fund's technology and digital landscape support the Fund's climate commitments and net-zero plans. Personal profile We're looking for an experienced technology leader who combines strategic thinking with the ability to inspire You'll bring: - Significant experience leading technology and digital functions at scale within a complex organisation, with a clear track record of aligning capability to organisational priorities - Proven ability to operate at senior leadership level, contributing to organisational strategy and influencing decision making across Executive and Board-level stakeholders - Experience of leading large multi-disciplinary teams across multiple sites throughout the UK multiple specialist functions through senior leaders, establishing clear accountability, driving performance and enabling high-performing teams. - Proven track record delivering major digital transformation programmes, including modernisation of technology estates, platforms and digital services. - Experience leading organisational and cultural change in a technology context, including embedding new ways of working across a complex organisation. - Strong understanding of technology infrastructure, digital service design, data, analytics and emerging technologies including AI. - Experience establishing AI governance frameworks and leading the responsible adoption of emerging technologies at organisational scale. - Significant experience of delivering proven cyber security risk management solutions, and of establishing governance and control frameworks for technology and digital. - Experience of balancing competing priorities across innovation, operational stability, resilience and value for money. - Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to provide advice, insight and challenge to senior leaders, Boards and Committees. - Commercial and financial management of technology investment, including contract and supplier management. - Proven experience of high compliance with of public sector (or equivalent) standards, governance, and regulatory frameworks. Why join? If you have a strong sense of social purpose and responsibility and recognise the importance of developing everyone to their full potential. You will inherit experienced leadership, significant executive sponsorship and the opportunity to shape the technology strategy that supports thousands of community organisations across the country. Few technology leadership roles offer this level of strategic influence alongside such a clear social purpose. If you're looking for an opportunity where your leadership can genuinely improve lives across the UK, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply using the link below or contact Jack Stockport on (url removed). Director of Digital & Technology The National Lottery Community Fund
Spencer Rose Ltd
Cyber Security Technical Manager Location: London/Bristol/Edinburgh/Hybrid - 3 days on site Salary: c.£125K +benefits We are seeking an accomplished Cyber Security Technical Manager to provide technical leadership across the Cyber Security function and lead a number of specialist security teams. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) , the successful candidate will be responsible for the continued development and maturity of security engineering, secure software development and security assurance capabilities. The role will ensure that security services evolve in line with organisational priorities, emerging technologies and the changing threat landscape. This is a senior leadership position requiring a highly credible cyber security professional who can provide expert technical guidance, influence strategic decision-making and support the delivery of secure technology solutions across a complex and dynamic environment. The Cyber Security Technical Manager will work closely with senior technology and business stakeholders, providing security consultancy across programmes and projects, supporting secure solution design, defining security requirements and providing technical assurance to enable informed, risk-based decisions. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership across the Cyber Security function, ensuring the effective delivery and continuous improvement of security engineering, application security, security testing and technical assurance services. Lead, develop and mentor specialist cyber security teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and professional excellence. Act as a trusted advisor to technology and business stakeholders on matters relating to cyber security risk, governance and control effectiveness. Provide senior security consultancy to programmes and projects, ensuring security considerations are Embedded throughout the delivery life cycle. Review and assure complex technical designs, architectures and solutions across cloud, infrastructure and software development environments. Define and communicate security requirements, standards and best practices to support secure and resilient technology delivery. Conduct and oversee technical risk assessments, ensuring security risks are appropriately identified, evaluated and managed. Represent Cyber Security within technical governance forums and contribute to organisational decision-making processes. Chair the Cyber Security Technical Working Group and promote consistency of approach across security disciplines. Work in partnership with technology leadership teams to support secure innovation and the adoption of modern technologies. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an experienced cyber security leader with a strong technical background and the ability to operate effectively across both strategic and operational domains. You will possess a proven track record of influencing security outcomes within complex technology environments and will be recognised for your ability to provide balanced, pragmatic and commercially aware security advice. You will be comfortable engaging with a broad range of stakeholders, from engineering and architecture teams through to senior leadership, and will demonstrate excellent communication, leadership and relationship-building skills. You will also have a genuine commitment to developing others, supporting technical specialists and team leaders to achieve their full potential while maintaining high standards of delivery and technical excellence. Essential Experience and Qualifications Significant experience in a senior cyber security position, with responsibility for leading technical teams and influencing security strategy and outcomes. Demonstrable experience designing, implementing and assuring security controls across cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure and software development environments. Strong expertise in modern cyber security practices, including: Secure software development Cloud security Security engineering Security testing and technical assurance Experience providing security consultancy to complex technology programmes and projects. Proven capability in secure design review, technical risk assessment and security assurance activities. Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making through clear, pragmatic and risk-based recommendations. Experience leading, coaching and developing technical professionals and team leaders. Degree in Information Security, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Desirable Qualifications CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional) CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) Other relevant industry-recognised cyber security certifications About the Team The Cyber Security team is responsible for protecting organisational systems, services, information and technology assets while enabling the secure delivery of business and technology objectives. Working collaboratively with technology and business stakeholders, the team provides practical, risk-based security advice and assurance, ensuring security is Embedded throughout the full technology life cycle. The function encompasses a range of specialist disciplines, including Security Engineering, Application Security, Security Testing, Security Operations, Identity and Access Management, Security Architecture and Operational Resilience. The team values professionalism, collaboration, continuous improvement and technical excellence, creating an environment where individuals are encouraged to challenge constructively, share knowledge and contribute to the ongoing development of cyber security capabilities across the organisation. Please note, client interviews will take place for this role in Late July/Early August
Cyber Security Technical Manager Location: London/Bristol/Edinburgh/Hybrid - 3 days on site Salary: c.£125K +benefits We are seeking an accomplished Cyber Security Technical Manager to provide technical leadership across the Cyber Security function and lead a number of specialist security teams. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) , the successful candidate will be responsible for the continued development and maturity of security engineering, secure software development and security assurance capabilities. The role will ensure that security services evolve in line with organisational priorities, emerging technologies and the changing threat landscape. This is a senior leadership position requiring a highly credible cyber security professional who can provide expert technical guidance, influence strategic decision-making and support the delivery of secure technology solutions across a complex and dynamic environment. The Cyber Security Technical Manager will work closely with senior technology and business stakeholders, providing security consultancy across programmes and projects, supporting secure solution design, defining security requirements and providing technical assurance to enable informed, risk-based decisions. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership across the Cyber Security function, ensuring the effective delivery and continuous improvement of security engineering, application security, security testing and technical assurance services. Lead, develop and mentor specialist cyber security teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and professional excellence. Act as a trusted advisor to technology and business stakeholders on matters relating to cyber security risk, governance and control effectiveness. Provide senior security consultancy to programmes and projects, ensuring security considerations are Embedded throughout the delivery life cycle. Review and assure complex technical designs, architectures and solutions across cloud, infrastructure and software development environments. Define and communicate security requirements, standards and best practices to support secure and resilient technology delivery. Conduct and oversee technical risk assessments, ensuring security risks are appropriately identified, evaluated and managed. Represent Cyber Security within technical governance forums and contribute to organisational decision-making processes. Chair the Cyber Security Technical Working Group and promote consistency of approach across security disciplines. Work in partnership with technology leadership teams to support secure innovation and the adoption of modern technologies. Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an experienced cyber security leader with a strong technical background and the ability to operate effectively across both strategic and operational domains. You will possess a proven track record of influencing security outcomes within complex technology environments and will be recognised for your ability to provide balanced, pragmatic and commercially aware security advice. You will be comfortable engaging with a broad range of stakeholders, from engineering and architecture teams through to senior leadership, and will demonstrate excellent communication, leadership and relationship-building skills. You will also have a genuine commitment to developing others, supporting technical specialists and team leaders to achieve their full potential while maintaining high standards of delivery and technical excellence. Essential Experience and Qualifications Significant experience in a senior cyber security position, with responsibility for leading technical teams and influencing security strategy and outcomes. Demonstrable experience designing, implementing and assuring security controls across cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure and software development environments. Strong expertise in modern cyber security practices, including: Secure software development Cloud security Security engineering Security testing and technical assurance Experience providing security consultancy to complex technology programmes and projects. Proven capability in secure design review, technical risk assessment and security assurance activities. Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making through clear, pragmatic and risk-based recommendations. Experience leading, coaching and developing technical professionals and team leaders. Degree in Information Security, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Desirable Qualifications CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional) CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) Other relevant industry-recognised cyber security certifications About the Team The Cyber Security team is responsible for protecting organisational systems, services, information and technology assets while enabling the secure delivery of business and technology objectives. Working collaboratively with technology and business stakeholders, the team provides practical, risk-based security advice and assurance, ensuring security is Embedded throughout the full technology life cycle. The function encompasses a range of specialist disciplines, including Security Engineering, Application Security, Security Testing, Security Operations, Identity and Access Management, Security Architecture and Operational Resilience. The team values professionalism, collaboration, continuous improvement and technical excellence, creating an environment where individuals are encouraged to challenge constructively, share knowledge and contribute to the ongoing development of cyber security capabilities across the organisation. Please note, client interviews will take place for this role in Late July/Early August
