Role Description

We’re looking for a Capability Lead to head up our End User Compute (EUC) domain, covering end user devices, virtual desktop infrastructure, application packaging and delivery, workspace platforms, and device lifecycle management. In this role, you’ll be the single accountable technical leader for the domain – setting standards, shaping strategy, and leading a high-performing community of engineers and technical specialists.

You won’t be expected to be the deepest specialist in every area. Instead, you’ll work through Principal Architects, Principal Engineers and Technology Team Leads, using your broad technical credibility to make sound judgements, set direction, and ensure consistency across multiple teams and client environments. You’ll play a key role in translating enterprise technical strategy into practical, implementable standards, while developing the people and capabilities that bring it to life.

This is a remote role with travel as required for collaboration, meetings, and key engagements.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide senior technical leadership and strategic direction for the End User Compute domain, working through Principal Architects and Engineers to define standards and patterns.
• Own and maintain technical standards, reference architectures, and approved patterns across all teams and accounts within the domain.
• Lead and develop the people within the domain, taking accountability for performance, development, and career progression.
• Represent the domain within Design Authority and contribute to cross-capability alignment under the Head of Capabilities.
• Provide final technical arbitration where expert opinion differs or decisions carry significant risk.
• Own recruitment decisions for technical roles, defining requirements and assessing technical suitability.

Qualifications

• Strong senior technical leadership experience within infrastructure, with credibility recognised by engineering peers.
• Proven experience leading and developing technical teams, with a focus on growth and progression.
• Experience defining and maintaining technical standards across multiple teams or complex environments.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions in real delivery contexts, balancing risks and practical constraints.
• Broad technical understanding across multiple disciplines, with the ability to work effectively through specialist teams.
• Experience delivering within enterprise or multi-supplier environments.

Requirements

• Experience in supplier or systems integrator environments serving UK public sector clients.
• Background in capability or practice leadership models rather than account-based delivery.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and architects.
• Experience working with workforce planning or HR on recruitment and performance.
• Knowledge of modern workplace platforms such as Microsoft 365, Intune, or Citrix Cloud.
• Experience delivering End User Compute services into regulated or secure environments.

Benefits

• Great career progression opportunities.
• Ability to be based anywhere across the UK.
• Flexible benefits to meet your needs.
• Training and development opportunities.

Company Description

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.