Information Manager

Information Manager

Location: This role will be based in Herefordshire, with very occasional travel to other sites.

Clearance Required: This role will require DV Clearance.

We are in search of an Information Manager to join Leidos UK within the Defence Team.

The Information Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all customer information created, stored, shared, and managed on the platform complies with applicable MOD and customer policy, legislation, and operational requirements. This includes overseeing the transition from legacy information systems to SharePoint, maintaining robust access controls, and supporting operational teams with best-practice information management.

Responsibilities include:

Information Governance and Compliance

• Ensure all data is handled in accordance with all applicable customer policy.
• Maintain robust audit trails for access permissions, data segregation, and lifecycle management (creation, storage, protection, archiving, and destruction).
• Collaborate with the relevant cyber teams to investigate and respond to any suspected data breaches.
• Monitor and report on compliance with information handling policies and escalate risks or breaches as necessary.

Role Based Access Control and Permissions Management

• Apply and manage NTFS permissions to restrict access to users with a legitimate business need.
• Control and manage SharePoint permissions, ensuring appropriate segregation and role-based access.
• Maintain Permission Groups and manage access to data repositories. SLAs include completing all requests within 2 working days, utilising the customer ITSM tool of choice.

Archiving Data

• Archive data in accordance with the relevant customer policies.

SharePoint Architecture and Migration

• Design and implement a SharePoint file structure that aligns with best practice and customer policy.
• Import data from legacy systems to new structures, as part of obsolescence strategy.
• Ensure metadata, naming conventions, and folder structures are compliant and optimised for searchability and governance.

Operational Support and Training

• Provide advice and support to users on information management best practices.
• Deliver training and onboarding for new users, to include standard users and super users.
• Act as the first point of contact for information management queries and issues.
• Provide advice on all relevant IM matters to critical stakeholders.
• Required experience and competencies
• The ideal candidate will have completed the Information Manager (IM) course at Defence Academy Shrivenham.
•  In depth knowledge and understanding of best practice IM policy and the utilisation of SharePoint.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across different levels.
• Experience in training users in data management use.
• Understanding of risk management and mitigation.
• Excellent communication skills utilising different methods.
• Active DV clearance or willing to obtain and maintain DV. For more information and guidance please visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

Passionate about customer success by being determined to understand and respond to our customers’ needs as if they were our own. United as a team, we are bound together by our conviction that ethics and integrity is core to how we operate.

Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company’s 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent.

Our reward scheme includes:

• Dynamic Working 
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays.
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

At Leidos, we don’t want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

£36,900.00-£46,100.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.