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About the Role

Altana is seeking a Vertical Technology Lead, Policy & National Security to own end-to-end technical outcomes for the vertical. This UK-based leadership role operates in the national security context, working with classified missions and secured environments, in close partnership with Platform Operations and core Engineering, Product & Design (EPD). The position requires holding the architecture bar, winning technical arguments, and driving product development for mission-critical needs.

Responsibilities

Own the technical approach across the vertical's capture efforts, providing technical volumes, proposal content, and supporting materials.
Partner with the Head of Vertical to ensure product delivery meets decision-maker and end-user needs, bringing technical credibility to pitches.
Build and maintain relationships with key technology partners in the UK and allied national security ecosystem.
Advise commercial leadership on product-market fit and the feasibility of proposed solution architectures.
Translate vertical needs into clear, cross-cutting product features and requests.
Own the technical architecture and delivery for the vertical's accounts, from scoping through deployment (PaaS and SaaS).
Maintain the quality bar for performance, security, and maintainability, and lead compliant operations.
Direct Implementation Delivery Managers (IDMs) on large and strategic accounts.
Staff accounts based on complexity and assign strongest personnel to high-stakes accounts.
Collaborate with EPD and core engineering to build solution designs, configuring existing capabilities or developing new ones.
Drive last-mile product development for mission-specific requirements.
Own the vertical's customer support obligations and build processes for the field-to-product feedback loop.
Ensure vertical deployments meet Altana's security, risk, and compliance obligations in secured and regulated environments.
Partner with Platform Operations on regulated-environment engineering and accreditation.
Own hiring, staffing, and deployment for the vertical's technical delivery team.
Allocate resources across the vertical's accounts, concentrating technical talent effectively.
Flag resource or product investment gaps relative to opportunity.
Develop team members through a 'capture-ground' model, offering increased responsibility based on delivery.
Support individual career paths, whether technical mastery, account running, or management.
Hold the technical quality bar, manage performance, and model technical product excellence.
Foster team culture and uphold operating rhythm and communication standards, including meeting contractual obligations.

Requirements

Delivered at the sharp end of the public sector, leading complex technical programs for government (ideally defence, intelligence, or national security).
Comfortable engaging with mission owners and senior decision-makers, translating between mission and technical language.
Experience as an architect who has also run delivery.
Ability to own a solution architecture across SaaS and regulated environments.
Experience building team structures to manage delivery-management overhead and keep engineers productive.
Experience building teams and upgrading them as missions grow, staffing to complexity, and assigning the right people to accounts.
Proven ability to win on technical capability and translate technical credibility into expansion.
Experience surfacing where the platform can unlock new mission value and partnering with commercial teams to convert it.
Experience operating in secured environments, handling sensitive and classified data.
Understanding of delivering software within accredited, controlled environments.
Ability to lead through inspiration, set a high bar, grow team members, and guide teams through complex, ambiguous problems.

Skills

Enterprise/solution architecture
Deployment
Product development
Technical team leadership
Customer-facing deployment leadership
Public sector experience (defence, intelligence, national security)
Cloud (AWS or Azure)
Data engineering (Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks)
Complex system integrations (REST APIs, SSO/SAML)
Containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker)
Pre-sales and capture
Technical product specification
Delivery path creation
People leadership (hiring, growing, holding the bar)
Security, risk, and compliance management
Regulated-environment engineering
Accreditation processes

Location

United Kingdom
London
Hybrid work flexibility
Commuting distance of London hub

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

12+ years of technical experience
Senior technical leadership

Education Level

Eligible and willing to obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance

Salary/Compensations

Compensation and benefit details to be shared by recruiter during the hiring process.

Benefits

Hybrid work flexibility

About the Company

Altana is the network for trusted trade, using AI-powered products to empower governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
Altana's mission is to power a new era of globalization organized around trusted networks.
Our values are Trust, Resilience, Stewardship, and Courage.

Equal Opportunity

Altana believes that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are.
Employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate.
We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address.
We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.