AddressWhy this job matters
Networks and Digital are BT’s powerhouses, with expert technologists, we have a unique position in BT. By bringing together our technical and commercial expertise, and our insight and passion for customer experience, we help BT stand out from the competition. Innovation and research drives everything. Coming up with new ideas and developing new digital and network technologies is central to our future.
In order to achieve this, we need world class technical expertise and thought leadership to ensure BT maximises the value realised from new and emerging technologies in wireless, network architectures, virtualisation, optics, artificial Intelligence, data science, emerging services and applications. The calibre of our research specialists and experts determines our success in transforming BT and maximising business value.
This role is based in BT's Ipswich office and follows hybrid working
What you’ll be doing
This role is one of our senior technical leadership roles in Applied Research, responsible for managing the Cyber Security Team. It plays a pivotal role in shaping BT’s Future Cyber-security technologies, applying new and emerging digital technologies to the way we secure our own business and that of our customers. Key technologies include AI/ML, cybersecurity, visual analytics and software engineering.
- Domain expert leading a team of researchers in Cybersecurity Research supporting the strategic needs of the business.
- Accountable for defining and performing research in Cybersecurity particularly in areas that are unknown, complex, high impact and high value across multiple domains. These research projects cover long, medium and short term research horizons, as defined within the Security research programme.
- Leads on down-streaming and exploitation of research projects ensuring they generate maximum business value via revenue, cost savings and/or licensing value.
- Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their team and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate
- Accountable for a range of stakeholder engagements across CFU’s to ensure Cyber-security research supports BT’s strategic goals.
- Responsible for authoring thought leadership technical papers, capturing intellectual property
- Evangelises new disruptive technologies across BT, and promoting BT as an innovative company externally through keynote presentations, publications, awards, standards representations etc.
- Leads on numerous national and international collaborations with universities, industry partners and government agencies.
Skills & Experience Required for the Role
- Technical Expertise: Recognised leadership and expertise in new and emerging technologies and their application to cybersecurity, particularly AI, ML, computer science, data science and software engineering.
- Domain expertise: Extensive experience and leadership in cybersecurity technologies and their application to BT security and customers challenges.
- Qualifications: Outstanding academic record in relevant technology specialism with post-graduate qualification(s) (or equivalent).
- Open research and innovation experience: proven experience in leading applied research and innovation activities, including an ability to assemble collaborative projects and initiatives with industry, government and academia to achieve research goals. Well skilled in patenting, IPR exploitation, technical publications, keynote conference presentations etc.
- Strong business acumen: Strong entrepreneurial skills for research down-streaming and exploitation. Able to determine research value of work and the best route to commercialisation. Knowledgeable in business strategy, market awareness and the drivers of organisational performance and change.
- Expert communicator: Excellent presentation skills and experience presenting sometimes complex technologies and concepts to Board/CxO level customers and internal stakeholders to influence strategy and spend decisions.
- Concept Evaluation: ability to spot relevant innovations, horizon scanning, determine relevance for the business, develop an effective conceptualisation and build trials to test the concept
- Stakeholder management: excellent in managing multiple stakeholders externally and internally across the business at a variety of grade and seniority levels
Benefits
At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.
• Competitive salary
• 15% on target bonus
• Company car or £5,500 cash alternative
• Private healthcare for self and family
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
• Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
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