Defence CTO

Location: Remote, with regular travel to customer sites and hirify.global offices, mainly in the South and Midlands. Hybrid working and core hours apply in line with role requirements.

Salary: £110k–£130k depending on experience, plus company benefits and a flexible benefits scheme.

Company

hirify.global is scaling its digital services footprint across Defence and is Europe's largest privately-owned IT company.

What you will do

• Partner with the Head of Defence & National Security, account leadership, business development teams, vendors, and industry primes to shape defence opportunities.
• Engage senior stakeholders across Defence Digital, Front Line Commands, DE&S/National Armaments Director Group, Military Strategic HQ, Cyber and Special Operations Command, and industry primes.
• Lead technical discovery, problem-framing, and service-design workshops to translate customer challenges into hirify.global solutions.
• Shape solutions across secure networks and hosting, digital workplace, data, AI and analytics, cyber security and resilience, and managed services with ITSM/SIAM models.
• Own solution direction, engage specialist SMEs, and act as the technical authority during early capture.
• Create architectures, roadmaps, service definitions, high-level designs, and bid and proposal content while building technical trust with defence stakeholders.

Requirements

• Deep defence domain exposure, including Defence Digital, Front Line Commands, DE&S/National Armaments Director Group, or Cyber and Special Operations Command.
• SC clearance required; DV desirable.
• Strong pre-sales capability covering discovery, opportunity shaping, and solution definition.
• Broad secure IT understanding across networking, cloud, hosting, cyber, data, and enterprise services.
• Experience and established networks within systems integrators or defence integrators such as DXC, Leidos, Sopra, CGI, BAE, or Atos.
• Strategic thinking, professional curiosity, and a desire to learn and grow.
• Ability to present business and technology solutions to varied senior audiences; strong listening, articulation, and numeracy skills.
• Commercial understanding of cost to serve, P&L, customer commercial benefit realisation, and ongoing service delivery.
• Experience leading virtual teams, managing multiple services and customers, adapting priorities, and representing the team internally and externally.
• Open-minded, positive, creative, collaborative, self-motivated, service-oriented, and willing to challenge the business and customers.

Nice to have

• Military background combined with commercial experience.
• Exposure to cyber operations or defensive cyber.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace with career development and lifelong learning opportunities.
• Permanent employment with a broad company benefits package and flexible benefits scheme.
• Two paid volunteering days per year.
• Working hours are 9:00 am–5:30 pm, Monday–Friday.
• Hybrid working and core hours aligned with role requirements.

Hiring process

• Two-stage interview process.