Global Director of IT

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lunchtime catering on site

Lead global IT through rapid international growth. You will build and run the services that help our engineering, manufacturing and business teams work effectively as we scale our people, sites and production.

We are looking for a technically credible leader with experience in cloud-first environments, enterprise systems leadership, complex data handling and manufacturing, who has built support teams across countries and time zones. You will set direction, develop strong teams and stay close enough to delivery to make sound decisions and resolve difficult problems.

• Global IT and scaling. Set the IT strategy, roadmap and operating model for growth in headcount, countries and production. Establish repeatable onboarding and site-launch processes, with clear priorities, service ownership and delivery commitments.
• Cloud-first services. Develop a consistent employee technology environment across identity, devices, collaboration and SaaS services. Automate routine work, improve the user experience and ensure services can be operated and supported as demand increases.
• Enterprise systems leadership. Lead enterprise systems strategy and delivery with Business Technology and functional owners, covering platforms such as ERP, MES, PLM, CRM and HRIS. Oversee selection, implementation, integration, data migration, adoption and lifecycle management, with clear accountability for delivery and business outcomes.
• Global support. Build and lead distributed teams and service partners. Combine local site support with global escalation and handovers, matching coverage to working hours, production shifts and service criticality.
• Complex data handling. Translate requirements agreed with Information Security, Legal and business owners into practical IT services. Enable collaboration while managing data location, access, retention and supplier sharing, including contractual and export-control restrictions where applicable.
• Manufacturing and engineering. Work with Manufacturing, OT and business system owners to support the IT services that engineering and production depend on. Plan changes around operations and establish clear support arrangements for sites, specialist users and application dependencies.
• Availability and reliability. Own IT service performance and major incident coordination. Agree availability and recovery objectives with the business, address recurring failures and test recovery arrangements with service owners and suppliers.
• People and commercial delivery. Recruit and develop capable leaders, set clear accountability and plan capacity ahead of demand. Own the IT budget, supplier performance, contracts and licensing, balancing service quality with sustainable cost.

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, and ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it.

We're building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.

We have immense backing from the world's best venture funds, we’re building a company for the scale and urgency of the mission and we’re one of the fastest-growing defence technology companies in history.  That demands exceptional people across every discipline—people who combine deep expertise with sound judgement, take ownership of difficult problems and turn ambition into results.

The standards are high. The work is demanding. The impact is real. If you want to build something that matters, join us.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.