Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Design and deliver scalable, production-grade AI solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role involves hands-on development, cloud solutioning, full-stack application development, LLM frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and data platforms. It also requires direct client and stakeholder interaction, with supply chain or manufacturing domain experience preferred. Candidates may work onsite with clients and partners and should be able to operate across multiple cloud platforms.

Entry-level software engineering graduate role on a three-year accredited development programme. The graduate will design and develop engineering solutions, work on new and existing products, complete discipline-specific and core training, and potentially rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment. Candidates need a STEM degree in areas such as computer science, computing, data science, or software engineering, plus UK work authorization and eligibility for required security clearances.

Systems Engineering Apprentices support requirements capture, system design, project reviews, testing, validation, engineering investigations, and system deployment. The four-year degree apprenticeship combines university study at the University of Warwick with practical experience at Thales. Apprentices develop multidisciplinary engineering knowledge across mechanical, electrical, electronic, materials, computational, and product design disciplines while working toward a BEng and future Chartered Engineer status.

Apprentice engineers will support the integration, validation, verification, qualification, and testing of sonar systems. They will use specialist diagnostic and measuring equipment, check hardware and software against technical specifications, assist with customer acceptance, and develop fault-finding and systems engineering skills while completing a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship.

Complete a three-year accredited graduate programme developing systems engineering skills through structured training, engineering assignments, and potential rotations or secondments. Design and develop engineering solutions for Thales products, build professional competencies and networks, and work with experienced engineers across the engineering lifecycle. The role requires a relevant STEM degree, permanent UK work rights, UK security clearance, and eligibility for a UK Eyes Only programme.

Four-year Level 6 Software Engineering Degree Apprentice supporting software development, requirements and design activities, project reviews, engineering investigations, testing, integration, verification, validation and qualification. The apprentice will study one day weekly at Manchester Metropolitan University and work four days at Thales’ Cheadle site. Successful completion leads to a Software Engineer role. The position requires UK work authorization, BPSS and SC clearance, and compliance with UK Eyes Only nationality restrictions.

AECOM is hiring ground engineering, geotechnical, engineering geology, and tunnel engineering professionals at all levels across the UK. Responsibilities include delivering ground engineering and tunnelling projects, applying technical standards and design codes, supporting projects from concept through operation, and providing technical leadership. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, project experience, willingness to travel throughout the UK, and a clean driving licence. Chartered-status progress is advantageous, and graduate development and mentoring are available.

Leads the regional Engineering team through operational leadership, performance improvement, strategic planning, business growth, client engagement, value proposition development, talent management, budgeting, and forecasting. The role develops high-performing teams, wins new client work, supports specialty strategy, and deputizes for the Head of Engineering.

Lead the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence to define AI-native engineering practices, set technical standards and governance, drive adoption of agentic AI workflows, improve engineering maturity and developer experience, coach senior leaders, and embed continuous improvement across product tribes.

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog for secure hardware engineering environments. Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature priorities; validates releases; gathers user feedback; and leads application evolution, migration, consolidation, and legacy-tool retirement. Acts as technical authority and architect while coordinating hardware engineers, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and leadership. The role requires practical hardware engineering experience and knowledge of engineering development environments, with responsibility for aligning tools to broader Thales roadmaps.

Leads the M&S Cloud Platform engineering team building AI engineering platforms, reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and developer self-service capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, platform ownership, architecture, DevOps, reliability, vendor management, recruitment, talent development, and line management of senior engineers. The role contributes code while driving engineering excellence, operational reliability, strategic alignment, and improved developer experience across more than 200 engineers and 30 applications.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.

Leads the AI Engineering platform team, setting technical direction and building reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and agentic workflows. Owns platform reliability, developer experience, production operations, vendor partnerships, technical strategy, and OKRs. Manages Staff and Senior Engineers while driving recruitment, retention, engineering excellence, and cross-functional alignment. The role requires hands-on software development, AI coding expertise, cloud and system architecture knowledge, DevOps practices, testing, reliability engineering, and strong people leadership.

Apprentice supporting traffic engineering, highways, active travel, traffic management, signal design, modelling, data analysis, site surveys, technical reporting, and project administration. The role combines on-the-job training, formal learning, mentoring, and progression toward a recognised qualification and career in traffic engineering.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Graduate engineer supporting railway systems engineering, integration, verification, validation, safety, risk, requirements management and systems assurance on multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects. The role includes developing technical documentation, managing interfaces, contributing to assurance evidence and collaborating with engineering, client and operational stakeholders. Candidates receive mentoring and structured development across systems engineering, systems safety and assurance.

Leads and develops the Data Engineering team while owning the organization’s data platform, architecture, warehouse, and pipelines. Establishes engineering standards covering CI/CD, testing, monitoring, documentation, and governance. Partners with Data, IT, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver the data strategy, roadmap, integrations, migrations, and platform improvements. Requires enterprise-scale data platform expertise, advanced SQL and Python, modern cloud data platform experience, data modeling, agile delivery, and strong stakeholder management.

Leads engineering delivery for major EPC projects within Sellafield’s regulated PPP framework. Oversees engineering strategy, execution, risk, schedules, costs, change control, forecasting, and performance. Serves as senior engineering contact for project and management reviews, builds multidisciplinary teams of up to 80 people, collaborates with stakeholders, acts as Principal Designer under CDM regulations, and drives benefits realization and continuous improvement.

A 12-month engineering graduate programme combining a three-month technical bootcamp with nine months of live project work. Trainees develop coding, testing, deployment, data, AI-assisted engineering, Agile, and problem-solving skills while working with global teams. The programme includes mentoring, certifications, and exposure to the full engineering lifecycle, with support toward a permanent engineering role after successful completion.

Eight-week hybrid engineering internship involving real business projects, Scrum ceremonies, agile delivery, AI-assisted engineering, and collaboration with experienced engineers. Interns will develop technical and problem-solving skills, learn about banking technology, participate in networking and learning events, and may progress to the engineering graduate programme after successful completion.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Leads and develops a team of Desktop Motor Engineers handling vehicle damage assessments, repair methodologies, total-loss decisions, and insurance claims. Manages workflow, workload allocation, service-level targets, quality audits, client escalations, compliance, technical guidance, and continuous improvement. Requires substantial motor engineering and claims experience, leadership capability, vehicle repair expertise, estimating-platform experience, and ATA accreditation or progression toward it.