Provide technical leadership across programme‑led delivery, working in partnership with Project Managers who retain accountability for overall delivery.
Own the end‑to‑end technical workstream across multiple initiatives, ensuring technical outcomes are complete, coherent and ready for implementation.
Define and maintain clear technical scope, acceptance criteria and required artefacts so delivery partners and operational teams understand what “done” looks like.
Strengthen design quality through structured scrutiny of designs, specifications and technical documentation, testing assumptions and identifying risks, gaps or ambiguities.
Work closely with solution architects, security teams and technical stakeholders to ensure architectural intent, design principles and security requirements are correctly interpreted and implemented.
Define and apply technical readiness gates (e.g. design ready, build/test ready, operationally ready), providing assurance and evidence to support progression through delivery phases.
Act as a technical integrator across delivery teams, operations and suppliers, driving closure of technical actions, dependencies and cross‑team issues to agreed standards and timelines.
Maintain delivery and operational context throughout the lifecycle to support smooth transition into operation and reduce delivery and operational risk

Strong technical background in OT and/or infrastructure environments.
Proven ability to review, challenge and assure technical designs and documentation within established architectural and security frameworks.
Experience working in live or operationally critical environments.
Demonstrable experience supporting delivery through third‑party suppliers and systems integrators.
Experience operating within programme‑led delivery models.
Background in regulated or safety‑critical environments is highly desirable.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the confidence to challenge constructively and drive technical alignment.

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.

OT Technical Lead

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