Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

• Own hiring, staffing, and deployment for the vertical's technical delivery team.
• Allocate resources across the vertical's accounts, concentrating technical talent where it matters most. Flag when headcount or product investment isn't matched to opportunity.
• Develop your people through Altana's "capture-ground" model, giving more responsibility as they deliver. Support each person's path, whether that's technical mastery, running an account, or management.
• Hold the technical quality bar, manage performance, and model technical product excellence.
• Carry team culture and hold the team to the operating rhythm and communication standards, starting with our commitment to meeting contractual obligations.

Who You Are

You’ve delivered at the sharp end of the public sector. You’ve led complex technical programs for government — ideally in defence, intelligence, or national security — and you’re at home with mission owners and senior decision-makers, translating fluently between mission language and technical language.

You’re an architect who has also run delivery. You can own a solution architecture across SaaS and regulated environments, and you know the difference between owning the architecture and running the program. You’ve seen delivery-management overhead swallow good engineers, and you’ve built the muscle — and the team structure — to keep both moving.

You build teams and trade up as the mission grows. You staff to complexity, put the right people on the right accounts, and aren’t precious about changing the lineup when the technical bar rises.

You win on technical capability. You’ve turned technical credibility into expansion — surfacing where the platform can unlock new mission value and partnering with commercial to convert it, without needing to own the number yourself.

You operate in secured environments. You’re experienced handling sensitive and classified data, and you understand what it takes to deliver software inside accredited, controlled environments.

You lead through inspiration. You set a high bar, grow the people around you, and bring a team along on hard, ambiguous problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical experience spanning enterprise/solution architecture, deployment, and product development, including leading technical teams and complex, customer-facing deployments end-to-end.
• Deep public sector experience, ideally in defence, intelligence, or national security.
• Solution architecture depth across cloud (AWS or Azure), data engineering (Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks), complex system integrations (REST APIs, SSO/SAML), and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• A track record partnering with commercial teams on pre-sales, capture, and expansion — turning clearly-defined customer outcomes into technical product specs and a credible delivery path.
• People-leadership experience: hiring, growing, and holding the bar for a team of technical delivery staff.
• UK-based, with the right to work in the United Kingdom, and able to work on-site with customers as the mission requires.
• Hold, or are eligible and willing to obtain, UK Security Check (SC) clearance — existing SC (or higher, e.g. DV) is a strong plus.

This role is based in the United Kingdom (London) with hybrid work flexibility. Candidates must be within commuting distance of our London hub.

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Our Values

Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.

• Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word, meeting commitments, and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver, to speak openly, and to hold ourselves accountable.
• Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity, our work must withstand challenges, evolve with conditions, and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt, we support each other, and we keep moving forward.
• Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
• Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.