Generative AI and Cyber Resilience Developer - KTP Associate

£42000 - £42000

Birmingham, West Midlands - 27 months

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Job description

Intercity Technology is an award-winning leading Technology Services Provider based in Birmingham. Intercity is structured around four Divisions: Cloud & Security, Managed IT Services, Communications, and one of the UK’s leading Microsoft Practices. Intercity is two years into a 5-year strategic transformation and investment to pivot towards cybersecurity and cyber resilience being the main contributors to and drivers of business growth.

This KTP aligns with Intercity’s strategic aim to position the business as thought leaders in the sector, by embedding knowledge in the business to ensure a legacy capability that will ensure continued development of their offers.

This KTP is a great opportunity for someone who wishes to become a business change consultant/manager. You will work with senior University academics on a commercial project which puts theory and modelling into practice.

Main responsibilities:

The KTP will exploit innovation opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence to create a bespoke tool for the delivery of cyber resilience solutions based on Intercity’s award-winning CAF, to create CAFAI within an AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions landscape.

Develop a CAFAI Digital Resilience generative AI data model
Contribute to the wider development of an AI-confident and AI-enabled business environment, integrating CAFAI into Intercity’s business operations
Working with Intercity’s Director of AI Practice to add expertise and knowledge to Intercity’s approach to AI implementation and AI-driven business change
Evaluate CAFAI impact and efficiency
Identify and address ethical and societal considerations
Personal attributes:

Strong interpersonal skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills. The ability to work within a cross-disciplinary project team
Leadership and maturity of communication and organisation skills to deliver the KTP project and ensure it achieves agreed milestones and objectives
Ability to work independently and use initiative
Strong desire to pursue innovative approaches and pathways
Ability to work closely with all stakeholders and establish an effective knowledge transfer process in the company
Additional Benefits and support:

Up to £4,500 for personal and professional development for the duration of the project
Annual leave (25 days p/a)
Professional support and mentorship
Mental Health and wellbeing support: https://www.aston.ac.uk/staff-public/hr/Benefits-and-Rewards/health-wellbei ng
On successful completion of the 24-month project a discretionary performance-related bonus will be awarded
Career prospects:

60% of our KTP associates are being offered employment by the companies at the end of the KTP.

KTP’s are a proven springboard for Associates who wish to develop careers in consultancy, change management, operations or as University academics in PhD programmes.

This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by Intercity Technology Limited and Innovate UK.

Project description

This Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project aims to develop an innovative Cyber Assessment Framework utilising Generative Artificial Intelligence to create an holistic approach to cyber risk that is adaptable to the needs of business and accessible to non-technical business leaders and safeguard essential business functions against evolving threats.

About the business

Intercity Technology is an award-winning leading Communications and Technology Services Provider headquartered in Birmingham and with offices in Bolton and Hertford.

Computer Science

Computing & IT

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, or a related field, with a focus on AI and machine learning.

15 August 2024

10 September 2024

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Intercity Technology is an award-winning leading Technology Services Provider based in Birmingham. Intercity is structured around four Divisions: Cloud & Security, Managed IT Services, Communications, and one of the UK’s leading Microsoft Practices. Intercity is two years into a 5-year strategic transformation and investment to pivot towards cybersecurity and cyber resilience being the main contributors to and drivers of business growth.

This KTP aligns with Intercity’s strategic aim to position the business as thought leaders in the sector, by embedding knowledge in the business to ensure a legacy capability that will ensure continued development of their offers.

This KTP is a great opportunity for someone who wishes to become a business change consultant/manager. You will work with senior University academics on a commercial project which puts theory and modelling into practice.

Main responsibilities:

The KTP will exploit innovation opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence to create a bespoke tool for the delivery of cyber resilience solutions based on Intercity’s award-winning CAF, to create CAFAI within an AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions landscape.

Develop a CAFAI Digital Resilience generative AI data model
Contribute to the wider development of an AI-confident and AI-enabled business environment, integrating CAFAI into Intercity’s business operations
Working with Intercity’s Director of AI Practice to add expertise and knowledge to Intercity’s approach to AI implementation and AI-driven business change
Evaluate CAFAI impact and efficiency
Identify and address ethical and societal considerations
Personal attributes:

Strong interpersonal skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills. The ability to work within a cross-disciplinary project team
Leadership and maturity of communication and organisation skills to deliver the KTP project and ensure it achieves agreed milestones and objectives
Ability to work independently and use initiative
Strong desire to pursue innovative approaches and pathways
Ability to work closely with all stakeholders and establish an effective knowledge transfer process in the company
Additional Benefits and support:

Up to £4,500 for personal and professional development for the duration of the project
Annual leave (25 days p/a)
Professional support and mentorship
Mental Health and wellbeing support: https://www.aston.ac.uk/staff-public/hr/Benefits-and-Rewards/health-wellbeing
On successful completion of the 24-month project a discretionary performance-related bonus will be awarded
Career prospects:

60% of our KTP associates are being offered employment by the companies at the end of the KTP.

KTP’s are a proven springboard for Associates who wish to develop careers in consultancy, change management, operations or as University academics in PhD programmes.

This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by Intercity Technology Limited and Innovate UK.