CTO TTS

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in a training design setting.
• Proven ability to develop technology strategies, roadmaps and business cases that support organisational and customer transformation objectives.
• Strong understanding of learning science, adult learning principles and modern instructional design methodologies.
• Experience applying emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, extended reality (VR, AR and MR), simulation, synthetic environments and digital twins to learning and capability challenges.
• Experience working directly with military, government or regulated-sector customers, with an understanding of operational capability development and training requirements.
• Familiarity with experiential learning techniques.
• Strong customer engagement and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence senior leaders across customer and industry organisations.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, information assurance and interoperability considerations associated with defence and government technology environments.
• Familiarity with synthetic training environments.
• Demonstrable understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, agentic systems, analytics and knowledge-centric architectures, including RAG, and their application to defence training transformation.
• Data analytics techniques.
• LLM and RAG exploitation to optimise processes and maintenance operations.
• Familiarity with simulation technologies and modelling environments, such as Matlab/Simulink.
• Familiarity with JSP 822 DSAT and JSP 939.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC), with the ability to obtain Developed Vetting (DV) clearance if required.

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the technology strategy and roadmap for JSP 822 DSAT compliant defence and government training programmes, ensuring alignment with broader MoD training goals and operational objectives.
• Provide appropriate expertise in non-MoD markets.
• Define next-generation learning solutions, integrating evidence-based learning methodologies with emerging technologies.
• Shape customer training transformation strategies and influence future capability requirements across defence and government markets.
• Develop strategic partnerships with industry, academia and technology providers to accelerate innovation and market differentiation.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps for learning platforms, digital learning environments and synthetic training solutions, ensuring scalability, interoperability and security.
• Act as a senior learning and technology adviser to customers, providing thought leadership on capability, training transformation and future learning architectures.
• Support business growth and the Requirements and Capability team through customer engagement, opportunity development, capture activities and bid support, helping to shape innovative and differentiated training solutions.
• Support the Mission Area to develop business strategy and business development in the capture of large training design programmes in the UK and worldwide.
• Recommend technology investment priorities and capability development opportunities to support long-term growth and competitive advantage.
• Maintain a technology horizon scanning process for candidate capabilities, lead innovation activities including horizon scanning, technology assessment, research programmes, defining prototypes and proof-of-concept demonstrators.
• Collaborate with training design and media teams and wider functions to ensure training content is deliverable, engaging, interactive and aligned with learning objectives.
• Engage with supply chain, external vendors and technology partners to source, evaluate and implement third-party training solutions as needed.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that training programmes are regularly reviewed, updated and refined to meet evolving operational needs.
• Specialise in individual training, with an appreciation of collective training.
• Liaise with the lead technical roles on the adjacent but separate Omnia ACTS delivery.
• Delegate work packages to the team and manage progression of delivery in a high-performing team environment.
• Act as the technical design authority for new business proposals, working alongside project management, commercial and supply chain functions to produce cohesive and winning solutions.
• Contribute to our intellectual property, future offerings and strategic technology within the learning and training domain.

Technologies:

• AI
• Support
• JSP
• LLM
• Matlab
• RAG
• Security
• VR
• Cloud
• CTO

More:

We are partnering directly with Raytheon UK to hire for the Training Transformation Services Chief Technological Officer role in Winnersh, Wokingham, with flexible working and regular travel to the South Coast. We are a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, delivering defence solutions across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, as well as digital and training transformation solutions for commercial and military customers. Our benefits include a competitive salary, contributory pension scheme with up to 10.5% company contribution, life assurance at six times salary, 25 days holiday plus public holidays and the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days, a discretionary company bonus, flexible benefits with salary sacrifice options, enhanced sick pay, enhanced family-friendly policies and up to 5 paid volunteering days each year. We offer a 37-hour working week, early Friday finish, and remote, hybrid and site-based working opportunities depending on role requirements. Our Training Transformation Services team is modernising training and preparation for armed forces through blended learning and innovative systems and technology, and our UK business employs circa 2,000 people across major sites throughout the UK.

last updated 34 week of 2026