Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

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.

Leads production test engineering for physical devices from prototype through mass production. Responsibilities include building testing roadmaps, managing engineers and resources, coordinating hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and factory dependencies, and overseeing test fixtures, equipment, software, infrastructure, deployment, and documentation. The role analyzes production data, returns, and support cases to identify defects, determine root causes, validate fixes, and improve products, manufacturing processes, and testing systems.

Leads Tide’s global KYX engineering organization across onboarding, continuous due diligence, identity, risk scoring, data science, and ML. Owns engineering strategy, organization design, model lifecycle, regulated AI deployment, and measurable improvements in conversion, due diligence quality, automation, and servicing costs. Partners with operations, policy, risk, compliance, product, and IAM teams across multiple markets while building globally reusable platforms with market-specific logic isolated.

Leads software engineering teams across people development, technical direction, architecture, delivery, and operational ownership. Partners with Product and Design on roadmaps, discovery, prioritization, and customer outcomes while supporting engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, and technical debt management. Coaches engineers, develops technical leadership, fosters inclusive culture, and guides teams toward autonomous decision-making. This is a 9–10 month maternity-cover contract beginning November 2026, based in Manchester or London with hybrid office attendance.

Lead hands-on development of Moonpig’s search platform, spending 50–75% of the time coding. Own OpenSearch integration, build scalable AWS and Terraform infrastructure, develop .NET, React, Node.js, TypeScript and GraphQL features, and collaborate on AI/ML-driven search capabilities. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, delivery planning, architectural guidance and stakeholder communication while helping shape the Search roadmap and engineering practices.

Executive leader responsible for enterprise data platforms, advanced analytics, AI engineering, and agentic AI strategy. Leads data, analytics, and AI engineering teams; architects modern cloud data and multi-agent systems; drives governance, security, responsible AI, and semantic architecture; and partners with executives and business units to deliver automation, predictive insights, and strategic decision-making capabilities.

Leads strategic communications and media engagement for engineering and science activities, developing multi-channel campaigns and content to enhance the university’s global reputation. Builds relationships with media, academics, policymakers, funders, and external partners; identifies news opportunities; supports media training and crisis communications; evaluates audience and campaign performance; manages communications materials, suppliers, and potentially staff; and contributes to press office, leadership, and on-call activities.

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.

Examiners mark external Level 1/2 Technical Award in Engineering assessments during the summer 2027 marking window. They apply mark schemes consistently, attend remote standardisation meetings, report malpractice or safeguarding concerns, maintain confidentiality, and submit results accurately under tight deadlines. Candidates need relevant Level 3+ qualifications and recent teaching, assessment, training, or occupational engineering experience.

Moderates engineering qualification assessments by reviewing centre-marked work, applying quality assurance standards, producing reports, managing sampling activities, attending standardisation meetings, and providing constructive feedback. The role requires engineering or design technology expertise, teaching or assessment experience, strong knowledge of assessment processes, and the ability to work independently during the April–August 2027 moderation period.

Leads technical development of AECOM’s Ground Engineering team, overseeing geotechnical data, analyses, design verification, project delivery, client advice, and multidisciplinary coordination. The role manages schedules, budgets, quality, client relationships, business development, and technical delivery while mentoring junior engineers. Candidates need civil engineering, engineering geology, or geology qualifications, chartered status, strong UK ground-condition knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, and substantial leadership and stakeholder-management capability.

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.

Technical Director leading coastal and water engineering projects across marine, river, and infrastructure environments. Responsibilities include technical delivery, client advisory, team leadership, bid development, commercial oversight, project management, quality assurance, and integration of sustainable and emerging solutions. The role requires expertise in coastal processes, scour assessment, hydraulic design, asset management, and major infrastructure projects, along with chartered engineering status and strong commercial and leadership experience.

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.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for modeling, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, and quality. Owns platform roadmap execution, manages engineering managers, accelerates AI-assisted software development, improves delivery and testing processes, and balances zero-to-one product development with ongoing releases. Partners with Product and represents platform engineering to company leadership. Requires deep technical credibility and a proven record of organizational transformation, product delivery, and engineering leadership.

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 quality engineering across multidisciplinary Agile teams by establishing testing standards, strategies, governance, automation, and quality gates. Develops automated UI and API test suites, integrates testing into CI/CD pipelines, supports functional through acceptance testing, manages defects and test data, and provides release assurance evidence. Coaches engineering teams on shift-left practices and quality improvement while remaining hands-on. The role may also support building and leading a future quality engineering team.

Serves as a pre-sales technical consultant for Microsoft 365 Copilot, partnering with sales, customers, partners, engineering, and customer success teams. Leads discovery, solution envisioning, business value assessments, technical demonstrations, architecture discussions, competitive objection handling, and proof requirements. Develops industry-aligned solution strategies, advances qualified pipeline, supports proposals and licensing, and helps secure customer solution design endorsement and deployment plans.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

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.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

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.

Associate software developer who will train and join a specialized software team, contributing to design, development, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. The role involves collaboration across hardware, embedded software, integration, algorithms, and AI/ML teams; completing assigned work; and documenting technical work and learnings.

Lead cost control across energy infrastructure projects, managing budgets, forecasts, commitments, accruals, change control, cost reporting, and performance measurement baselines. Develop cost and work breakdown structures, align purchase orders and supply-chain data, support earned value management, and ensure accurate estimate-to-complete reporting. The role requires stakeholder management, leadership, coaching, risk-based decision-making, and coordination across project controls disciplines. Nuclear-sector experience is desirable, and the successful candidate must be able to obtain BPSS clearance.