Top Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Leads and develops a high-performing software engineering team while contributing hands-on to secure, scalable production systems. Oversees hiring, coaching, performance development, code development and review, automation, operational stability, architecture evaluations, vendor collaboration, and cross-team coordination. The role focuses on building a managed cloud infrastructure platform using cloud-native and platform engineering practices.

Leads software engineering for JPMorgan Payments Technology, developing secure, scalable Java and Python solutions. Owns public open-source repositories, releases, governance, licensing, CI, dependencies, and security quality. Builds SDKs, libraries, agent skills, and MCP integrations for external developers. Drives responsible AI-assisted engineering adoption, automation, testing, resiliency, and compliance. Evaluates architectures and vendors, supports payments integrations, and represents the firm through technical writing, public repositories, and conferences.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within corporate technology, providing technical coaching, setting delivery standards, managing stakeholders, and coordinating cross-team dependencies. Oversees end-to-end delivery of data-intensive products using Python, Spark, and Databricks. Drives responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation while ensuring secure, compliant, resilient, and high-quality software delivery in a financial services environment.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure to improve reliability and operational efficiency. Drive complex incident management, integrate AI-assisted reliability workflows across the SDLC, validate AI outputs and data sensitivity, lead cross-team projects, influence stakeholders with measurable reliability outcomes, and translate analysis into business recommendations.

Lead and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure for enterprise-scale AWS workloads. Architect and implement infrastructure changes, drive projects, support 24/7 follow-the-sun operations, partner with product teams to remediate issues, and apply automation, observability, and responsible AI-assisted development practices.

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 enterprise-scale cloud platform engineering programs for AI and data workloads. Responsibilities include architecting Azure, AWS, and GCP environments; implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, AIOps, observability, security, networking, governance, resilience, and FinOps; and enabling agentic operations. The role mentors engineering teams, establishes technical standards, drives AI-augmented delivery, and contributes to client propositions, bids, and reusable platform assets.

Three-year graduate software engineering programme involving engineering solution design and development, discipline-specific training, product work, professional networking, and potential rotations or secondment. Candidates will work with experienced engineers across the engineering lifecycle while developing technical skills and competencies. The role requires a STEM bachelor's degree or expected degree in software engineering, computer science, embedded systems, robotics, mechatronics, electrical and electronic engineering, or a related subject.

Three-year graduate systems engineering programme involving engineering solution design and development, structured technical training, product work, professional development, and potential rotation across business units or external secondment. Candidates will build engineering skills while working with experienced engineers on customer-focused products in the defence, aerospace, space, and digital security sectors.

Join Thales’ three-year Engineering Development Programme as a graduate DevOps engineer. You will develop engineering solutions, work on new and existing products, complete structured technical and transversal training, and potentially rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment. The role requires a STEM degree, offers hybrid working, and involves UK Government security screening, including BPSS and Security Clearance (SC).

AECOM is seeking geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and tunnel engineers at all career levels for UK-based ground engineering and tunnelling projects. Responsibilities include delivering geotechnical, structural, and tunnel engineering work from concept through operation, applying relevant design codes and standards, supporting project delivery, and providing technical leadership appropriate to experience. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, technical design knowledge, leadership experience appropriate to level, willingness to travel across the UK, and a clean driving licence.

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.

Leads industrialisation and manufacturing technology engineering across the plant and supply chain. Acts as Technical Authority, assuring manufacturing capability for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and lead time. Oversees process requirements, technical governance, production readiness, supplier support, capability improvement, product safety, quality, planning, budgets, and capital strategy. Develops manufacturing engineering talent and promotes standardized processes, digital manufacturing, APQP, PPAP, DMAIC, and right-first-time production.

Lead the engineering function on a remote consulting mission by setting technical direction, managing and mentoring engineers, driving the roadmap, overseeing complex delivery, improving engineering practices, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural judgment, agile expertise, and evaluation of emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain.

Lead the engineering function for a growing technology company on a renewable consulting mission. Responsibilities include setting the engineering roadmap, managing and mentoring engineers, guiding architecture and technical decisions, leading complex projects, improving engineering practices, and collaborating with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical involvement, strong software engineering expertise, and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain. French fluency and strong English communication skills are mandatory.

Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient cloud-native systems. Partner with product to define technical solutions, manage technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and drive engineering best practices. Hands-on leadership with strong frontend and distributed systems experience.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Lead a team of 7–8 engineers building ENSEK’s Flex cloud-native energy platform. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, sprint planning, technical decision-making, architecture, engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, Data, and SRE. The role also contributes to team-model evolution and broader engineering strategy while ensuring reliable, commercially valuable product delivery.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation. Manage performance, hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, and cross-functional prioritization. Shape architecture, developer experience, accessibility, search, navigation, reliability, and multitenant capabilities. Engage customers and open-source contributors, improve engineering workflows through AI and automation, oversee operational standards, and participate in the engineering management on-call rotation.

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 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 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.