Job Vacancy Lead Technical Architect - Government Digital Service - G6

We’re interested in people who have a high level of expertise in:

• leading broad and complex strategic work across systems and services, with an ability to think strategically and bring clarity and structure to uncertainty

• owning and defining digital cyber defence services and products that operate across government at scale

• actively addressing the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues

• assessing products and services and giving constructive feedback and guidance on priorities and improvements

• coordinating service and product development with other teams across organisational boundaries

• communicate well with senior stakeholders and technical and non-technical stakeholders, including suppliers, coordinating activity across a number of organisations toward common objectives

• engaging well with people through a range of channels and explain what you are doing and how you are doing it in clear and compelling ways

• managing staff effectively, using initiative to identify issues within team dynamics and proactively implement appropriate solutions.

• developing staff through tailored feedback, adapting communication styles to ensure impact is effective and lasting

Bristol, London, Manchester

As the Government Cyber Unit, our mission is to protect public services and the UK Government from cyber threats by: 

• setting strategic direction for government and the public sector on cyber security through the 

• managing the portfolio of programmes to implement the strategy across central government

• establishing standards and policies ( and the 

• supporting government organisations to deliver secure digital services via  

• assuring system and organisation cyber security via initiatives such as  

• identifying public sector internet-facing digital assets, finding vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and helping to fix them through the 

• leading the operational response to cyber threats, vulnerabilities and incidents through the  (GC3)

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need. 

The Cyber Services Team supports the delivery of the Government Cyber Action Plan by coordinating, overseeing and delivering services to help public sector organisations solve cyber security challenges.

The services we provide centrally are those where automation and economies of scale can be applied to address common resilience and cyber problems. These cover the core internet services we all rely on such as DNS, email and web services, as well as vulnerability management, cyber testing and cyber capability uplift. 

We ensure that cyber services are easy to find and use, and that the information and support delivered by these services is coherent, valuable, relevant, timely, trusted, reliable and easy to action. 

We track success using evidence based objective measures.