Our digital solutions are tailored to address the essential needs of UK Defence and Security missions, including the management of equipment inventory, secure collaborative working environments, and secure desktops. We also extend our support to military personnel and their families by enabling seamless digital access to essential accommodation services, ensuring they remain connected and supported no matter where they are. Our dedication to enhancing the UK's safety by delivering mission-critical digital services has been recognised consistently having been rated in the top 10 Software and IT Services supplier to the UK Defence sector, and currently ranked 7th by TechMarketView.
For more information, please contact James Mansfield, Executive Client Director at Sopra Steria.
We’re one of the UK’s leading IT consultancies – and the fastest growing of TechMarketView’s top 20 IT consultancies. We help the organisations which shape everyday life in Britain to re-imagine their services and re-think how they work. And our solutions are grounded in Sopra Steria’s practical experience of delivering services at scale.
Defence Business Services: Our business service brand SSCL plays a central role in delivering core payroll, HR and pension services for 230,000 military personal and reservists and 2 million veterans. This includes delivering 70 payrolls every month, disbursing and accounting for £9bn, including £3.8bn in pensions to 80 currencies and 100+ countries annually and providing one of the largest Oracle HR systems in Europe; our call centre teams are available 24/7 365 days a year, providing an exceptional user experience.
Information security is fundamental to Defence and National Security. We provide a wide range of secure information management solutions to the UK government at all levels of security. We specialise in messaging services and adjacent technology, delivering these to fixed, deployed and tactical locations.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) relies on Sopra Steria to deliver critical inventory management and warehousing services that underpin the digital transformation of defence logistics and support. We ensure that end users have access to relevant and trustworthy master data which in turn allows effective, timely decision making.
BLUEJAYSecureCollaboration is a secure collaborative working environment that enables government and industry partners to work with integrity and assurance at SECRET. Created by Sopra Steria, BLUEJAYSecureCollaboration is developed to support the whole range of digital services including document/project collaboration, data-sharing, voice/video communication, IMPEX & large file transfer. It provides an evergreen model with future service development roadmaps for engineering toolsets such as BYOA (bring your own applications), BYOW (bring your own workload) and connected site services.
At Sopra Steria, our teams combine in-depth expertise in the aerospace business with a high level of knowledge of information systems and digitalisation. Our expertise spans across the aerospace lifecycle, from conception to maintenance with a focus on the critical functions of the sector: Engineering, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Maintenance and Services.
We are proud to collaborate with organisations that share our commitment to supporting the Defence community and veterans. By working alongside our key partners, we aim to make a meaningful difference, fostering diversity, empowering individuals, and providing essential support to those who serve or have served. We are dedicated to creating positive, lasting impacts within the Defence and veteran communities.
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Jul 15, 2025 | Simon Rust
Effective national security collaboration demands trusted digital solutions, like BluejaySecureCollaboration, that enable secure, agile and assured decision-making across borders and industries.
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Sopra Steria has today announced the appointment of Craig Wilson to the position of Managing Director of Financial Services, where he will be focus on broadening and deepening relationships with Sopra Steria’s current and prospective customers. Craig will position customer needs at the heart of his Financial Services strategy, enacting plans to capitalise on Sopra Steria’s core strengths in Delivery, Fintech and Customer Experience as clients look to overhaul their infrastructure and operations amid increasing regulatory change and digital disruption.
Craig joins Sopra Steria after 18 years at HSBC, where he held various senior management and Director-level positions, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of its UK Commercial Banking Division. During this time, he led on discretionary and regulatory change including the UK’s commercial response to the Deferred Prosecution Agreement, MiFID II, GDPR and CMA and implemented numerous digital transformation projects within HSBC’s front and back offices.
Over the course of 2018, Sopra Steria has continued to bolster its position in the Financial Services market: Co-Op Insurance and Royal London Group have extended their application management contracts, Sopra Steria has partnered with Fintech Scotland to drive the region as a fintech hub, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) employed Sopra Steria to deliver the UK’s largest digital market data processing platform.
Sopra Steria’s work with the FCA is a perfect example of how the company proves it thinks differently from the competition. It’s an organisation whose digital solutions are driven by regulatory change in the banking sector, but also maintains a strong sense of the importance of customer experience. At its heart, Financial Services is a people industry, and I’m excited to lead a team which has a long history of success enriching the customer experience when banks and other financial services organisations seek to digitise their propositions.Craig Wilson, Managing Director of Financial Services, Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria’s work with the FCA is a perfect example of how the company proves it thinks differently from the competition. It’s an organisation whose digital solutions are driven by regulatory change in the banking sector, but also maintains a strong sense of the importance of customer experience. At its heart, Financial Services is a people industry, and I’m excited to lead a team which has a long history of success enriching the customer experience when banks and other financial services organisations seek to digitise their propositions.
Craig Wilson, Managing Director of Financial Services, Sopra Steria
I am delighted to welcome Craig into a major strategic role for us. He will play a crucial part in helping the business achieve its growth targets for the future, while ensuring we continue to provide a high-quality level of service to our Financial Services by bringing in leading talent in digital user experience and regulation. His long-standing client-side experience and network will also bring us closer, stronger connections across the Financial Services industry as a whole.John Torrie, CEO at Sopra Steria UK
I am delighted to welcome Craig into a major strategic role for us. He will play a crucial part in helping the business achieve its growth targets for the future, while ensuring we continue to provide a high-quality level of service to our Financial Services by bringing in leading talent in digital user experience and regulation. His long-standing client-side experience and network will also bring us closer, stronger connections across the Financial Services industry as a whole.
John Torrie, CEO at Sopra Steria UK