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Head of Architecture

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Together, we can reach new heights. Together, we are CAVU. About the role We're looking for a Head of Architecture to lead the technical direction, architectural strategy and engineering standards across CAVU's technology landscape, with a particular focus on Propel, our market‐leading airport travel platform. This … senior technical leadership role, responsible for shaping modern, scalable and secure cloud‐native solutions that support both current business priorities and future growth. You'll work closely with engineering, product and technology leaders to ensure architecture enables rapid delivery, commercial success and exceptional customer experiences. Reporting ...

Head of Architecture (Manchester, UK)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
About the role We're looking for a Head of Architecture to lead the technical direction, architectural strategy and engineering standards across CAVU's technology landscape, with a particular focus on Propel, our market-leading airport travel platform. This is a senior technical leadership role, responsible … ensure architecture enables rapid delivery, commercial success and exceptional customer experiences. Reporting to the Engineering Director, you'll lead a team of architects and technical specialists, providing both strategic direction and technical guidance across multiple disciplines. While this is not a hands‐on engineering role, we're looking ...

Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ascent Resourcing Limited
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £80,000 per annum
Engineer £70,000 - £80,000 Base + Benefits Remote Based About the Role We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong technical expertise with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset. As a Lead Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role within the Engineering team, providing technical leadership, influencing architectural direction, and setting high standards for engineering excellence. This is a hands-on leadership position where you'll work closely with the Director of Product Engineering to shape the technical strategy, establish engineering best practices, and tackle the complex challenges that have ...

Head of Architecture

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
looking for a Head of Architecture at Interact Software. The Head of Architecture will lead the architectural vision, strategy, and execution, ensuring alignment between technical initiatives and business goals. In this role you will drive the evolution of our technical architecture, foster innovation while overseeing the design, development … systems, ensuring that both current and future needs are met through forward-thinking strategies, engineering excellence, and modern architectural practices. In this leadership role, you will lead and develop a team of Principal Software Engineers and Technical Architects, setting clear expectations, driving high performance, and fostering a culture ...

Software Development Manager

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions Ltd
Location
M1, Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £110000/annum
growing technology company based in Greater Manchester, is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to play a key role in driving both technical excellence and business growth. As part of the senior leadership team, you'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership, managing … support the growth of the team as the business continues to scale. Key Responsibilities Lead and deliver the company's software development strategy, balancing technical leadership with people management. Manage, mentor and grow a team of software engineers. Drive best practices across software engineering, architecture, code quality ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ASCENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LTD
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
+ Benefits Remote Based with occasional team meets in Manchester region. About the Role Were looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong technical expertise with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset. As a Lead Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role within the Engineering team, providing technical leadership, influencing architectural direction, and setting high standards for engineering excellence. This is a hands-on leadership position where you'll work closely with the Director of Product Engineering to shape the technical strategy, establish engineering best practices, and tackle the complex challenges that have ...

Infrastructure Engineer (Microsoft Tech)

Hiring Organisation
SRG
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£45,000 - £55,000 per annum
+ Bonus + On-Call Allowance The Role If you're a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who's become the go-to person for complex technical issues and wants more influence without moving into people management, this could be the ideal next step.We're looking for a Senior Corporate & Cloud … Support Engineer to become the technical authority within a Corporate Support function undergoing significant change. This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, solving complex problems, and driving improvements across cloud, identity, and corporate infrastructure services.You'll act as the senior escalation point for the team, leading technical ...

Lead Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
DWP Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
ready to shape the architecture that powers the future of DWP's Corporate Centre? As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll join DWP Digital's Corporate Centre Services (CCS) leadership team, helping to define the technology, data and architecture strategy that supports critical functions including People & Place, Finance … while helping thousands of colleagues deliver better outcomes for millions of citizens across the UK. Working directly with our senior leaders, you'll provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of digital transformation programmes including major ERP implementations, estates transformation and the modernisation of legacy technology. ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
cross-product platform portfolio: legacy and greenfield applications, developer tooling, internal dashboards, and company-wide tools. This is a senior individual contributor role with technical leadership influence (no direct reports), working closely with the Platform Team Lead and Director of R&D.**Top Priorities*** AI workflow usage … part of day-to-day ownership.**Scope of the Role*** Work profile: approximately 80% hands-on engineering, 20% planning, triage, review, retros, and technical leadership activities.* Ownership: own modules and features end-to-end (design, build, test, release, production support), not entire enterprise products.* Landscape influence: understand ...

Security Operations Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Security Operations Technical Lead To support the Head of Security Operations in delivering effective day‐to‐day security operations, ensuring AJ Bell maintains the appropriate capability to detect, investigate and respond to security events and incidents. The Security Operations Technical Lead is responsible for ensuring that security operations … activities are executed efficiently, consistently and in line with defined SLAs and operational standards, through hands‐on technical leadership across SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Insider Risk and Vulnerability Management. This role acts as a senior technical escalation point, supporting complex investigations and driving improvements in detection ...

Engineering Manager (Golang)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
teams. This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on leader who still enjoys working with code, while also taking ownership of team delivery, technical direction, and engineering excellence within a modern cloud-native environment. Youll play a key role in shaping architecture, driving best practices, and supporting … scale. The Role As Engineering Manager, youll lead a team of Golang Software Engineers working across cloud-native microservices and distributed systems. Youll balance technical leadership with people management, ensuring high-quality delivery while mentoring and growing engineering talent. Youll collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, DevOps ...

Network Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
ECS Resource Group Ltd
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £500/day Inside IR35
helping organisations accelerate their digital transformations through expert delivery across cloud, AI, software engineering and enterprise technology. They combine strategic consultancy with hands on technical expertise and partner with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver scalable solutions. They are now looking for a Network Team Lead to join … them on a Three-month contract. Role Overview The Network Team Lead is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for maintaining, supporting, and delivering network services across the organisation. The role leads a small team of engineers while actively contributing across BAU support, project delivery, and operational ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear … high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers ...

Security Operations Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
AJ BELL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
Salford, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
security operations, ensuring AJ Bell maintains the appropriate capability to detect, investigate and respond to security events and incidents. The Security Operations Technical Lead is responsible for ensuring that security operations activities are executed efficiently, consistently and in line with defined SLAs and operational standards, through hands-on technical leadership across SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Insider Risk and Vulnerability Management. This role acts as a senior technical escalation point, supporting complex investigations and driving improvements in detection, response, automation and operational processes. The role holder is expected to lead through expertise, supporting analysts and ensuring ...

Technical Lead Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £100000/annum plus benefits
looking for an experienced Principal or Lead Engineer to help shape the future of its customer-facing platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll work closely with Product, Engineering and Business stakeholders to design, build and scale modern software solutions used by thousands … Stack TypeScript js & Microservices js Redis SQL Server & SingleStore AWS CI/CD & DevSecOps What You'll Be Doing Leading solution design, architecture and technical decision-making Collaborating with Product teams to shape requirements and delivery plans Building and deploying production software in a fast-paced environment Driving engineering ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Applause IT Recruitment Ltd
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60000 - £70000/annum Comprehensive Benefits
highly collaborative engineering team working on scalable, mission-critical software products. The successful Senior Java Developer will combine strong hands-on Java development with technical leadership, mentoring, and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise software applications Deliver high-quality code within Agile Scrum teams Champion … automated testing, TDD, and CI/CD engineering practices Support technical leadership and software development standards Mentor junior and mid-level developers Improve frameworks, tooling, and engineering processes Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions Essential Skills Strong commercial Java development experience SQL Agile/ ...

AI Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
decisioning capabilities.You’llalsodrive the development of AI platformarchitectureand infrastructure to support the secure and efficient deployment of AI solutions, while providing technical leadership across ML engineering and AI disciplines to drive innovation, strengthen capability, and promote the adoption of effective solutions. In addition,you’llbe: Owning … accuracy, stability, drift, and real-world effectiveness Embedding controls, monitoring, and validation within AI andMLsolutions to ensure safe and compliant decision-making Ensuring the technical integrity, resilience, and scalability of AI systems in alignment with enterprise architecture standards Ensuring models are explainable, auditable, and compliant with governance requirements, working ...

Analytical Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
About the Role We are seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager to lead, scale, and mature our Analytical Engineering capability. Operating on a level of technical and strategic authority alongside our other Data leadership roles you will co-author our data platform architecture and drive the long-term data … execute defined pieces of work. Why this role is exciting This isn't a traditional downstream analytics management role. You will have full technical sovereignty over how data is processed, modelled, and consumed across the entire enterprise, with the executive backing to shape your team and its capabilities your ...

Associate Director, Platform Security Architecture

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Director, Platform Security Architecture Department: Cyber Services and Capabilities Employment Type: Full Time Location: GBR Manchester Hardman Boulevard Reporting To: Ronnie Miller Description This leadership role is responsible for shaping and driving the Platform and Security Architecture strategy across all platforms that have commercial or revenue impact, including those … efficiency. Acting as a recognised subject matter expert in cyber platform engineering, cloud security, and advanced detection technologies, the role will provide strategic technology leadership, influence platform evolution, and guide key business decisions across engineering, operations, product, and commercial functions. A key part of the role is collaborating with ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
+ Up to 30% Bonus Shape the architecture behind a modern SaaS platform. We're working with an established software business undergoing a significant technical transformation. Following substantial investment, they're modernising a large-scale cloud platform and are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to play a pivotal … role in defining the next generation of their technology estate. This is a hands-on architecture position where you'll influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams, helping to solve complex business problems through scalable, cloud-native solutions. You'll work closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Principal Engineers ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
edge cloud-native applications for some of the world's leading organisations. You'll remain hands-on with modern technologies while mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence and delivering large-scale digital transformation projects across a variety of industries. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll play … designing, developing and delivering modern software solutions, working alongside talented multidisciplinary teams to build secure, scalable and high-performing applications. You'll combine strong technical expertise with leadership skills, helping to shape engineering best practices, support the growth of your team and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients. ...

AI Solution Architect - Senior Manager/Associate Director Capital Markets

Hiring Organisation
Datatech Analytics
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
experienced professional with a strong background in AI, cloud and data architecture, with experience designing enterprise AI solutions and translating business requirements into scalable technical architectures. You will play a key role in shaping AI architecture strategy, leading technical teams and supporting organisations as they move from strategy … experimentation through to enterprise deployment. You will work closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Enterprise Architects, MLOps teams, business stakeholders and senior leadership to design, deliver and scale AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Key responsibilities: Translating business objectives into AI architecture strategies, roadmaps and scalable solution designs ...

Lead Cloud & AI Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
responsible for the successful delivery of client and internal projects by building professional relationships with key client stakeholders, challenging where appropriate. Use your technical expertise to provide best practice advice and processes within your project team and the wider capability. As our client demands expand from traditional cloud migrations … autonomous platforms, managing AI lifecycles, and enforcing strict cost governance across cloud estates. You are seen as a leader internally and externally, through your technical expertise, guidance, and professionalism, both on and off a client. Alongside delivering for your customers, you will also support and mentor a team ...

Software Engineering Manager - Manchester

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and developing engineers within the wider technology team, while helping shape engineering standards, delivery, and technical direction. The Software Engineering Manager will be responsible for: Leading and managing a team of approximately 810 software engineers, supporting both their technical … Project teams to ensure development priorities are understood, estimated accurately, and delivered on time to a high standard Collaborating with peers and senior technical staff to identify opportunities for optimisation and continuous improvement across engineering and delivery functions Creating a positive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture The Software ...

Platform Engineer (GCP)

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
quality outcomes. Key responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain robust cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines Contribute across the full software development lifecycle Provide technical leadership and input into system and architecture design Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions. Write clean, well documented code … contribute to technical documentation Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues Continuously improve platform performance, security, and reliability Stay current with emerging technologies and drive innovation and adoption Communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders If you possess a combination of some ...