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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Technical Lead: Exercise and Training - **Company:** Thales Group - **Location:** Templecombe, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Software Design Patterns, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Remote Access Technology, Mitre Att&ck, Information Technology - **Published:** September 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2946553770-2 ## About the Role * Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or a related technical field * Proven experience acting as a Technical Authority, Design Authority, or equivalent senior engineering role * Deep expertise in modern security engineering practices OT & Industrial Skills: * Strong understanding of: + ICS/SCADA environments + Industrial operations and processes + PLC/DCS/SIS environments + Industrial networking + Remote access in OT + OT incident response + Industrial safety considerations * Knowledge of: + Purdue model + OT resilience principles + High-availability operations + Critical infrastructure environments Cyber Security Skills: * OT threat landscape awareness. * Knowledge of: + MITRE ATT&CK for ICS + Adversary behaviours + Industrial ransomware threats + OT detection and monitoring concepts * Incident response coordination. * Risk communication and cyber awareness delivery. * OT security governance and assurance understanding. Training & Facilitation Skills: * Exercise facilitation and scenario management. * Adult learning and instructional design principles. * Development of technical training material. * Executive briefing and communication skills. * Workshop and stakeholder facilitation. * Ability to simplify complex technical topics for varied audiences. Leadership & Business Skills: * Programme leadership. * Cross-functional stakeholder engagement. * Organisational change management. * Strategic planning and roadmap development. * Strong written and verbal communication. * Ability to influence operational and executive stakeholders. * Ability to design and review high-assurance architectures for regulated, mission-critical environments. * Proven ability to lead complex technical decisions, challenge suppliers, and provide defensible recommendations. * Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and maintain a strong external network. * A strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development. Desirable: * Postgraduate degree (MSc/MEng) in Cyber Security, Systems Engineering, Industrial Automation, or a related field * Experience in regulated environments such as defence, healthcare, policing, utilities, manufacturing, or critical infrastructure * Professional certifications such as GICSP, GRID, ISA/IEC 62443, CISSP, or CISM * Motivated by contributing to a safer, more secure world through Cybersecurity & Trust If you're ready to lead, influence, and engineer the next generation of OT cyber security, we'd love to receive your application. ## Description * Own the Exercise and Training technical strategy, defining the product and services SCT offer to UK customers. * Lead architecture design of OT Range capabilities, including identity, segmentation, continuous verification, and policy-driven access. * Define and evolve Exercise and Training products, including the classification, tagging, encryption, and attribute-based access control strategies. * Drive inclusion of Thales wider solutions into Exercise and Training capabilities, including Thales security products and solutions. * Develop defensible design patterns, for OT Exercising and assurance capabilities within the Ebbw Vale facility. * Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guiding implementation, testing, and assurance of Exercise and Training offers. * Engage with senior stakeholders, translating complex exercise and training concepts into clear, actionable decisions. * Shape internal standards, patterns, and governance, ensuring consistency across programmes. * Represent the organisation externally, contributing to working groups, standards bodies, and partner ecosystems. * Innovation leadership - driving next-generation of exercise and training capabilities, defining and using new technologies and architecture patterns such as leveraging AI opportunities, and shaping Thales' long-term OT cyber, Exercise and Training strategy. Our Opportunity You will lead the technical direction for our Exercise and Training capability, shaping how we design, assure, deliver, and deploy Exercises for cyber resilience to Thales' customers and OT Training capabilities operated out of the Thales UK Ebbw Vale facility. The role shall include the definition of the technologies Thales UK will implement into a Cyber Exercise product offer. In addition, the role will work closely with the technical leads in Ebbw Vale to define the product needs and architectures for OT Training as a product offering out of the Ebbw Vale office in support of our MOD customers. 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