Senior Product Analyst - Operational Technology
Role Overview
Supports one or both of Thermal IT's Operational Technology value streams: OT Security and OT Private Networks.
This hybrid product analysis and delivery role works with the Product Owner and technical team to translate priorities into delivery plans and maintain progress.
The role spans demand and analysis through planning, testing, implementation, and transition into operation.
Work crosses OT, cyber security, engineering, suppliers, procurement, and internal governance in a regulated, asset-intensive environment.
Responsibility across the two value streams will reflect business priority, delivery demand, and team capacity.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Supports one or both of Thermal IT's Operational Technology value streams: OT Security and OT Private Networks.
This hybrid product analysis and delivery role works with the Product Owner and technical team to translate priorities into delivery plans and maintain progress.
The role spans demand and analysis through planning, testing, implementation, and transition into operation.
Work crosses OT, cyber security, engineering, suppliers, procurement, and internal governance in a regulated, asset-intensive environment.
Responsibility across the two value streams will reflect business priority, delivery demand, and team capacity.
Location and working pattern
- Expected to spend 50% of the working week in Glasgow, Perth, Reading, or Havant.
- The working pattern is permanent, full-time, with Flexible First options available.
Key responsibilities
- Lead analysis, validation, and management of business, operational, and technical requirements; translate needs into epics, features, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain product and service roadmaps aligned with business outcomes, regulatory commitments, operational priorities, and technical lifecycle requirements.
- Analyze current and future-state processes to improve control, efficiency, service resilience, and user experience while maintaining end-to-end traceability.
- Create realistic delivery plans and maintain a healthy Azure DevOps backlog; facilitate Agile delivery and manage risks, dependencies, issues, and impediments.
- Support testing, implementation, and transition into service; build OT knowledge to contribute to lifecycle decisions, CAF evidence, NIS risk assessments, and security compliance.
Candidate requirements
- Significant experience as a Senior Product Analyst, Business Analyst, or comparable professional in a complex IT, OT, engineering, or critical-infrastructure environment.
- Experience taking work through the full lifecycle from discovery and requirements through planning, testing, implementation, and operational handover.
- Strong requirements engineering and process analysis, including user stories, use cases, functional and non-functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and traceability.
- Experience providing Scrum Master or equivalent Agile team facilitation, supporting backlog delivery, and removing impediments.
- Working knowledge of OT infrastructure and industrial systems across relevant Purdue Model levels, particularly Levels 3 and 3.5.
- Potentially relevant systems include industrial DMZs, hosting, firewalls, industrial networks, segmentation, secure remote access, network monitoring, endpoint security, DCS, SCADA, or ADMS.
Salary
- The source lists a salary range of £64,085–£76,581; no pay cadence is explicitly stated.
About SSE
SSE develops, builds, operates, and invests in electricity infrastructure and businesses supporting the energy transition.
SSE Thermal supports electricity availability and is developing low-carbon technologies, including carbon capture and storage and hydrogen-fired power plans.
Benefits
- Benefits include private healthcare and gym discounts, online GP access, counselling, interest-free loans for technology and transport season tickets, a Cycle to Work scheme, and family leave entitlements.
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