Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 software engineering teams and technical projects for a mission-critical emergency dispatch platform. Provides architecture direction, conducts code reviews, guides C# backend, database, and web development, and oversees testing and delivery. Manages Scrum and Agile execution, mentors teams on AI development tools, fosters collaboration and continuous learning, and partners with senior leaders and external stakeholders. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK and Poland offices and requires security clearance eligibility.

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.

Leads THG’s data engineering architecture and a six-person engineering team across Customer, Commercial, and Operations domains. Builds scalable BigQuery/GCP pipelines and reliable domain datasets, establishes engineering standards, modernizes legacy systems, and supports analytics, AI, and data science use cases. The role also drives data governance implementation, AI-assisted engineering, platform collaboration, and engineer development.

Leads AJ Bell’s Integration Engineering team, owning strategic integration capabilities, ETL streaming platform adoption, and critical business process evolution. Responsibilities include developing engineers and technical leaders, improving delivery performance, supporting architecture and technical decisions, operating critical production services, and balancing product, operational, regulatory, and strategic priorities. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical engagement across software engineering teams.

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.

Leads the development, governance, and global adoption of electrical engineering standards for industrial packaging machinery. Creates design standards, symbol libraries, templates, documentation frameworks, safety specifications, and coding conventions using AutoCAD Electrical and EPLAN. Ensures compliance with global electrical and safety standards, aligns controls and engineering workflows, supports ERP and PLM readiness, and drives training, collaboration, continuous improvement, and standards adoption across global engineering teams.

Manages civil and structural design engineering for bespoke precast concrete solutions supporting energy, water, wastewater, and infrastructure projects. The role combines business transformation with technical design support, improving processes, systems, data, and ways of working. Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements, developing manufacturable and commercially viable engineering solutions, collaborating across design, manufacturing, commercial, operations, and project teams, and supporting project delivery and stakeholder relationships.

Leads load testing and test tool operational support for 4G/5G mobility systems. Coordinates certification, regression, performance, and service validation activities; maintains testing platforms and infrastructure; troubleshoots operational issues; manages incidents and enhancements; supports upgrades, capacity planning, automation, documentation, and 24x7 global operations. Partners with engineering teams, vendors, labs, and international stakeholders to improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.

Provides administrative support for teaching and learning activities in the School of Engineering, including admissions, induction, timetabling, attendance, examinations, progression, placements and graduation. Acts as a first point of contact for students, staff and external providers, resolves or escalates queries, produces routine reports, supports events and committees, and contributes to programme reviews and process improvements.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable commercial trading and planning solutions. Provide technical direction, ensure operational stability, enforce engineering standards, manage vendors, and drive delivery excellence across cloud-native systems.

Paid 10-week engineering internship involving real projects across proposals, engineering, design, manufacturing, customer solutions, regulations, ISO standards, safety, and environmental practices. Interns collaborate with experienced engineers, may visit customer sites, and spend three weeks in the USA. Candidates must be engineering students entering their final year, live within commuting distance, hold a full driving licence and passport, and be able to travel internationally.

Design and productionize GenAI and applied machine learning solutions for telecommunications network automation, anomaly detection, forecasting, and root-cause analysis. Build RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, tool-calling frameworks, evaluation systems, guardrails, and automated triage services. Apply 4G/5G Core and IMS expertise to interpret network telemetry and improve troubleshooting. Partner with platform, DevOps, security, and product teams while continuously improving models and agents through operational feedback.

Leads technical development of AECOM’s Ground Engineering team, overseeing geotechnical analysis, design verification, project delivery, client advisory, business development, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Provides technical leadership, manages project schedules and budgets, builds client relationships, supports tenders, and mentors junior engineers. Requires chartered status, strong UK ground conditions knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, and a relevant civil engineering, engineering geology, or geology degree.

Lead electrical design management across multidisciplinary infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and integration of civil, structural, mechanical, geotechnical, and electrical disciplines. The role also emphasizes sustainable, maintainable, reliable, and innovative engineering solutions, team leadership, client liaison, and full lifecycle design delivery.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, consultant and contractor coordination, design interface management, stakeholder liaison, and delivery of compliant, sustainable, maintainable solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

Leads engineering productivity and operations for the Maia platform, setting strategy for agentic software delivery, shared engineering platforms, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and developer experience. Owns engineering metrics, reporting, cloud cost optimization, FinOps, tooling, vendor management, and technical procurement. Partners with engineering, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security while leading developer experience, release engineering, and CloudOps teams.

Leads engineering delivery across design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and technical acceptance for complex nuclear projects. Manages engineering queries, design changes, safety-case impacts, interfaces, risks, supplier feedback, equipment qualification, and manufacturing nonconformances. Coordinates stakeholders, ensures engineering deliverables meet plan, and supports quality and project management activities within highly regulated environments.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering site-specific Rolls-Royce SMR power station designs. Responsibilities include integrating site requirements with the generic design, managing engineering scope, budgets, risks and resources, directing systems and component activities, overseeing configuration and requirements management, and engaging customers, regulators and delivery partners across regulated nuclear infrastructure programmes.