About the role
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
Location: Ebbw Vale, Reading, Crawley, Bristol, Templecombe, and Cheadle (any Thales office)
Step into a role where your cyber expertise shapes national‑level resilience and the future of secure critical systems!
What the role has to offer
Enterprise-wide technical influence – shaping consequence informed, secure‑by‑design and AI‑enabled security technologies, and steering the evolution of Thales’ future cyber design capabilities
Own the UK Digital Trust technical strategy, ensuring consequence informed, SbD principles are embedded from concept to decommissioning.
Lead development of design patterns for Zero Trust Architecture, including supporting and guiding on the adaption for products, identification of variance and applicability, segmentation, continuous verification, and policy-driven access.
Define and evolve Data-Centric Security model product, including the classification, tagging, encryption, attribute-based access control strategies.
Contribute to the global approach to DCS across the wider Thales enterprise.
Drive inclusion of cryptographic architecture into solutions, including
PQC-ready design patterns
Hybrid classical/PQC key exchange
Cryptographic agility frameworks
Secure key management and HSM integration
Develop defensible design patterns, for high-assurance systems, ensuring alignment with NCSC, NIST, ETSI and sector specific standards.
Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding implementation, testing, and assurance.
Engage with senior stakeholders, translating complex trust and crypto concepts into clear, actionable decisions.
Shape internal standards, patterns, and governance, ensuring consistency across programmes.
Represent the organisation externally, contri…
