Top Engineering Manager 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 an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Leads SRE and LiveOps teams in improving reliability, performance, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence for cloud-native SaaS products. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, including architecture reviews, debugging production systems, automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, SLOs, technical debt prioritization, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Platform, Security, Product, Support, and Operations teams.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams across the full project lifecycle, from project definition and FEED through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. Ensures quality, safety, regulatory compliance, cost, and schedule performance while coordinating technical decisions, requirements capture, design governance, stakeholders, and project delivery under NEC commercial arrangements.

Lead and develop a remote full-stack engineering team of up to eight engineers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, career development, technical leadership, architecture, reliability, observability, developer experience, CI, ML tooling, infrastructure cost management, agile delivery, and collaboration with senior leadership to align engineering strategy with business outcomes.

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.

Lead a distributed team responsible for nTop’s modeling and rendering technology. Coach senior engineers, structure concurrent technical workstreams, improve development velocity, partner with Product Management on execution, and guide modernization of the rendering pipeline and transition from desktop software to AI-assisted, multi-surface products. The role requires technical fluency in graphics, geometry, computational math, C++, and GPU rendering, along with experience managing distributed engineering teams.

Lead a five-person development and QA team as a player-coach. Own team performance, hiring, wellbeing, commitments, release planning, estimation, development processes, and collaboration with product. Participate in coding, enforce engineering standards, explain technical risks to nontechnical stakeholders, and support the migration from a PHP monolith to Vue 3 and AWS serverless services.

Lead Salesforce and Node.js architecture, scalability, performance, security, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications. Manage and mentor a team of 10–15 engineers, set goals, conduct one-on-ones, hire talent, remove blockers, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. Drive technical direction, integrations, deployment processes, developer experience, and reliable roadmap delivery across Salesforce and AWS-based services.

Leads engineering teams across people, product, and technical delivery. Manages approximately 7–10 engineers, supports career development through coaching and feedback, ensures engineering excellence, partners with technical and product leaders, drives delivery outcomes, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to organization-wide engineering practices. The role requires prior software engineering experience, strong technical judgment, delivery leadership, autonomy, and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.

Lead and mentor a team of 5–8 AI engineers building enterprise conversational, generative, and agentic AI features. Own the engineering roadmap, technical execution, testing and evaluation practices, CI/CD, prompt regression suites, and platform integrations. Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams while remaining hands-on in solving complex AI engineering problems and communicating progress, risks, and decisions to stakeholders.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Leads a professional services team delivering administrative support for teaching, learning, and research activities. Oversees academic-cycle administration, regulatory compliance, quality audits, reporting, process improvement, and student experience initiatives. Manages recruitment, performance, development, workload planning, and service delivery standards. Collaborates with academic leaders and professional services colleagues, supports education-related projects, resolves operational issues, and contributes to institutional committees and working groups.

Leads education support teams and oversees teaching and learning administration, regulatory compliance, reporting, quality control, process improvement, student experience, and staff recruitment and development. The role coordinates academic and professional services stakeholders, manages education-related projects, resolves operational issues, and ensures effective service delivery across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Act as the bridge between Axis and consultant/specifier communities across the Midlands and South West UK. Build and manage A&E programme relationships, advise on product specifications, train on Axis design tools, create thought leadership, align activities with sales to generate pipeline, and collaborate with global A&E peers to share best practices.

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.

Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers working on observability collection products, including Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product, engineering leadership, and go-to-market teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. Guide projects from ideation through launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and contribute across team boundaries.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and user engagement systems. Partner with Product and Design to prioritize work, guide architecture, improve processes, and deliver reliable production features. The role combines people leadership with hands-on backend software development, technical decision-making, stakeholder communication, and team enablement across distributed time zones.

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.

Lead the AI function, define roadmap, and build production generative AI systems (voice, chat, document). Split time between hands-on engineering (~40%) and leading the AI team, establishing RAG/agentic workflows, evaluation, observability, and best practices. Collaborate with product and engineering to deliver reliable, user-focused AI features.

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.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

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.