Cyber Investigations - Product Owner

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The Role

In light of continued growth and success, Inzpire have recently evolved their cyber experts into a standalone division within the company, allowing for further expansion of our pool of cyber specialists. Expanding our SME pool we are actively recruiting product owners to operate within a cyber risk and resilience investigation environment. The roles will support a well-established and multi-faceted team, ensuring successful delivery of cyber Investigations within an Agile PM environment.

The Person

The successful applicant will be an experienced product owner with an understanding of cyber risk and resilience or a cyber risk expert with an awareness of Agile PM delivery. Highly motivated with a genuine passion for delivering excellence within an ever-changing cyber risk landscape.

We are looking for a proactive individual with a ‘can do attitude’ who is able to work within small teams, whilst also capable of working independently with minimal supervision.  You will not be afraid to contribute, both to the task in hand and with innovative ideas for business improvement. You will have an in-depth knowledge of working within one of the UK defence domains.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading investigator teams
• Ensuring the project vision is understood and the team delivers value adding products to the client in a timely manner
• Ensuring the team have adequate tasks in their backlog, enabling them to maintain delivery at pace
• Leading backlog refinement and sprint planning, ensuring correct task prioritisation
• Being accountable for standards of team delivery and outputs
• Working closely with wider programme managers to maintain business value
• Driving forward continual improvement, identifying and championing ‘better practice’
• Horizon scanning to remain abreast of the latest cyber threats, vulnerabilities and tactics
• Briefing client organisations at all levels including their senior leadership team

Whether defining the product vision, assuring team delivery, removing blockers, mentoring less experienced colleagues, engaging stakeholders during client site visits or providing cyber risk and resilience guidance, you will have the confidence in your abilities and analysis, and the ability to express this to your team and our clients. You will have a comprehensive understanding of MS Office applications, excellent written and oral communication skills, remain agile and adaptable, be able to travel independently to our Lincoln office and customer UK Sites (all travel costs are reimbursed).

The following attributes are highly desirable:

• Previous experience as a product owner
• A working knowledge of Agile processes and principles
• Degree level or higher qualifications in cyber or IT related subject
• Experience in delivering within cyber risk and resilience projects
• Experience of working with UK Military
• Experience in identifying and auditing products; tailored to meet the customers’ needs
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.

Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant must be a UK National and successfully complete National Security Vetting which will require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will also normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.

Location 

Homebased (within UK), requirement to travel to our Lincoln HQ and UK client sites when required, plus occasional opportunities for overseas travel.

Benefits

30 days paid holiday plus 8 days Bank Holidays per year

Uncapped Leave Scheme (upon successful completion of probation period)

Company provided private medical and dental insurance

Annual Profit and Performance Related Pay scheme 

Death in service (minimum 100k)

Company contributions into a Group Personal Pension Scheme

Business travel insurance 

Funded role specific training and financial assistance with Professional Development

Tax efficient Cycle to Work and Charitable Giving schemes

Tax efficient EV company car scheme.

Equal Opportunities

We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment.  We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a 2019 Gold Award Winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.  We are therefore delighted to offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to Service Leavers, Reservists and Military Spouses or Partners (including those of Service Leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements. 

The Company 

Inzpire Limited is a highly innovative and rapidly growing Defence and Technology Company who design, develop and deliver some of the world’s most advanced Defence related training, products and services.

In 2022, Inzpire has been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work for’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies for the second year in a row and achieved ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world class’ for our employee engagement, for the eighth year in a row. For the last 7 years Inzpire were named as a Sunday Times ‘100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ employer and were crowned the ‘Small Employer of the Year’ at the ‘Heropreneurs Awards’ in 2019. In 2021 Inzpire were honoured with a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.

Our team consists of very experienced and highly capable individuals, working together in a friendly and unique specialist Defence Company with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright, modern Head Office to the West of Lincoln alongside our Mission Systems team while the majority of operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.