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# Policy & Standards Lead - Defence / Secure Cloud Platform

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** Corsham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £140,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5884699286

## About the Role

* Strong experience in governance, assurance, policy, standards or regulatory environments.
 * Excellent senior stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
 * Proven ability to influence and build consensus across multiple organisations.
 * Experience working within large, complex, multi-supplier programmes.
 * Strong facilitation, negotiation and communication skills.
 * Confidence operating autonomously in ambiguous and evolving environments.
 * Understanding of cloud infrastructure and platform services.

Highly desirable:

 * MOD / Defence governance and assurance experience.
 * Secure platform governance, controls and guardrails.
 * Secure by Design knowledge.
 * Data and AI governance/policy exposure.
 * Experience developing operating models or governance frameworks.
 * Previous cross-government experience.

## Description

This is a senior, highly autonomous role requiring someone who can navigate MOD and cross-government environments, influence senior stakeholders and turn complex governance requirements into practical policies, standards and controls.
What you'll be doing:

 * Act as the Managing Authority lead for policy and standards activity across the programme.
 * Set direction and provide oversight to a specialist policy and standards team.
 * Lead stakeholder engagement across MOD, government departments, suppliers, delivery teams and future service owners.
 * Run and coordinate the Policies & Standards Working Group.
 * Build consensus around policies, standards, governance and implementation.
 * Ensure policy development aligns with platform strategy, delivery priorities and emerging requirements.
 * Navigate MOD governance, policy and assurance routes.
 * Ensure new policies align with the wider MOD policy environment.
 * Work with PMO and Target Operating Model teams to define the future platform governance model.
 * Coordinate policy and governance activity across a complex multi-supplier programme.
 * Support development of a new Data Statement of Work.
 * Co-lead onboarding rehearsals and trials for projects entering the MOD tenancy.
 * Contribute to programme governance and operational readiness.