101 to 125 of 160 Technical Leadership Jobs in Scotland

Lead Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure Platforms

Location
Auchentibber, Scotland, United Kingdom
Step into a role where your technical leadership directly shapes how critical technology solutions get delivered. You’ll guide complex, high-impact programs from idea to execution while partnering closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders. If you enjoy solving ambiguous problems, improving delivery outcomes, and influencing decisions … through clear communication, you’ll thrive here. Join a team that values accountability, adaptability, and continuous improvement. As a Lead Technical Project Manager in Compute Infrastructure Platforms (CIP), you will lead multiple concurrent technology infrastructure programs that align with business objectives and enhance the firm’s technological capabilities. ...

Staff Systems Engineer - Aerospace & Defence Livingston, United Kingdom Systems - ENG Posted 20[...]

Location
Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aerospace & Defense background to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will navigate the full systems engineering life cycle, bridging the gap between technical complexity and business objectives across a diverse portfolio of projects. We offer a hybrid working model and a 1:00 PM finish every Friday. … Responsibilities*** System Architecture: Develop and maintain high-level architectures, requirements, and MBSE models. Lead design trade studies and performance modeling for complex systems.* Technical Leadership: Act as the primary technical interface for customers. Own the technical decision-making process. Build cross-functional teams and lead technical ...

Product Definition Lead

Hiring Organisation
Clearline Recruitment Ltd
Location
Motherwell, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£23.08 - £25.64 per hour
dynamic and collaborative product development team on a one-year contract. You will work across instrument, assay and disposable development, helping to define the technical direction of complex point-of-care platforms. This role is well suited to an experienced technical leader with a strong background in systems … development projects Work within a highly skilled scientific and engineering environment Exposure to interdisciplinary and global project teams Opportunity to shape product definition and technical strategy Collaborative and technically focused workplace The Requirements Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Life Sciences or a related discipline At least five ...

Product Definition Lead

Hiring Organisation
Clearline Recruitment Ltd
Location
Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£23.08 - £25.64/hour
dynamic and collaborative product development team on a one-year contract. You will work across instrument, assay and disposable development, helping to define the technical direction of complex point-of-care platforms. This role is well suited to an experienced technical leader with a strong background in systems … development projects Work within a highly skilled scientific and engineering environment Exposure to interdisciplinary and global project teams Opportunity to shape product definition and technical strategy Collaborative and technically focused workplace The Requirements Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Life Sciences or a related discipline At least five ...

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Scientist May 14, 2026

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
partner with the Head of Advanced Machine Learning on hiring and growth, and represent Chemify's AI/ML capability externally. (Staff level) Set technical direction across the AI/ML stack; lead cross‐cutting initiatives spanning chemistry models, retrosynthesis, vision, and agents. About You You are an experienced … willingness to pick up new domains (you don't need to know chemistry on day one). (Staff level) A track record of technical leadership: mentoring, setting standards, and influencing scientific and technical direction beyond your own projects. Beneficial Skills Practical experience with active learning, Bayesian optimisation ...

Security Operations Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Aggreko
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
rely on us for decades. What you’ll do as a Security Operations Team Lead: Lead a small, agile Security Operations team, actively driving technical initiatives, performance improvements, and efficient workload management. Provide hands-on expertise in the delivery of internal security projects and technical support for operational … excellence. Act as a technical escalation point for incident management, ensuring prompt resolution and the consistent implementation of security processes and compliance. Collaborate closely with external suppliers and manage key security service forums to contribute to capacity planning, trend analysis, and ongoing security roadmaps. Drive the team forward with ...

OT Technical Systems Manager

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Perth, Perthshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
client is looking for a OT Technical Systems Manager to join on a 6-month ongoing contract. The role is based in Perth 1-2 days a week. Please note BPSS will be required for on-boarding, so UK-based candidates will be suitable. Outline/Job Title … Technical Systems Manager Detailed Job Description: This role will provide technical leadership and oversight across operational technology and control-system environments, with a focus on systems governance, compliance, resilience, lifecycle management, technical assurance and supplier management. Specific Qualifications/Experience required: Governance, configuration and lifecycle management ...

Principal Data Engineer - Azure - Perm

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£54,000 - £70,000 per annum
Principal Data Engineer (Azure) We're looking for an experienced Principal Data Engineer to lead the technical direction of a modern Azure-based data platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll shape data engineering standards, design scalable lakehouse architectures, and drive innovation across Azure … work closely with data scientists, architects and engineering teams to deliver robust, secure, and high-performing data solutions while acting as the technical authority for data engineering best practice. Key Skills: Extensive Azure Data Engineering experience Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake & Databricks Python, SQL and modern data pipeline development ...

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Addepar
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
geographies.Building resilient, multi-region solutions that boost system performance and elevate user experience.Ensuring architecture complies with European and international financial regulatory standards.Providing key technical leadership to transform how global clients connect with and leverage financial data.Applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the United Kingdom … ecosystem, understanding requirements, determining optimal approaches and driving change.Mentor, coach, and empower other engineers, contributing to an inclusive and high-performing team culture.Amplify your technical ability by empowering your peers and contributing to code reviews and technical designs.Debug and troubleshoot issues across the entire application stack.Collaborate effectively with ...

Senior SOC Manager – Managed Cyber Defence

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Specialism Risk Management Level Senior Manager Job Description & Summary About the role: We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead the day-to-day technical delivery of our Managed Cyber Defence services. This role has direct responsibility for Analysis and Engineering teams, ensuring the effective running, stability, and continuous … teams delivering Managed Cyber Defence services. Ensure service stability, performance, and quality across client environments, acting as a senior escalation point for incidents and technical issues. Manage prioritisation and workload across teams, including leadership of complex client incidents and investigations. Own and optimise the security technology stack (primarily ...

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
resilient, multi-region solutions that boost system performance and elevate user experience. Ensuring architecture complies with European and international financial regulatory standards. Providing key technical leadership to transform how global clients connect with and leverage financial data. Applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work … requirements, determining optimal approaches and driving change. Mentor, coach, and empower other engineers, contributing to an inclusive and high-performing team culture. Amplify your technical ability by empowering your peers and contributing to code reviews and technical designs. Debug and troubleshoot issues across the entire application stack. Collaborate ...

Threat Intelligence Lead

Hiring Organisation
Iberdrola
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
governance of incident response processes, playbooks and frameworks, ensuring they remain aligned with regulatory expectations, evolving threats and industry best practice. Alongside providing technical leadership and mentoring to analysts, you will take ownership of major cyber incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams, guiding decision-making and ensuring clear communication … enhance organisational resilience. You will design and lead a programme of incident response exercises, helping to test readiness, validate processes and strengthen collaboration across technical teams and senior leadership.Working closely with stakeholders across operations, engineering, risk, legal, communications and executive leadership, you will build strong relationships that support ...

Principal Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
Integration, Test, Evaluation and Acceptance activities for advanced electro-optical and infrared sensing systems within the GCAP environment. This is an important systems engineering leadership role, responsible for defining and executing the system integration and verification strategy from detailed design through integration, qualification, acceptance, and transition to production. … opportunity to influence next-generation sensing capability, working across national and international teams on technically challenging programmes. What you'll do Integration & Test Leadership Define integration and verification approaches appropriate for late-lifecycle delivery, ensuring readiness for hardware/software integration, qualification, acceptance, and release. Develop and maintain ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
securely.Working within our software engineering community, you will champion modern engineering practices, drive automation, and embed security throughout the software development lifecycle. Through your technical leadership and mentoring, you will help build a collaborative DevSecOps culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement and operational excellence.What You'll DoContribute … control tools.Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, automation and deployment technologies.Experience working within Agile development environments.Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor and influence technical teams.A passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.Security ClearanceThis role is subject ...

Principal Engineer - AI and Python

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
help us build this future. The Role: Build the Future of AI-Powered Software As a Principal Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and practitioner in our evolution. You are an AI-native engineer who is fluent in agentic coding tools and convinced that AI will redefine … champion and implement AI-assisted development practices within our teams, acting as a hands-on mentor and a catalyst for innovation through your technical expertise and enthusiasm. You will be at the forefront of adopting and mastering cutting-edge AI tools and platforms, ensuring our engineers are not just ...

Senior Architect – APIGEE (Migration) – E...

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
performance API platforms. Define API governance, security, and lifecycle management standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including cloud, DevOps, security, and application teams. Provide technical leadership, solution architecture, and best practice guidance. Support CI/CD integration and automation for API deployments. Troubleshoot complex platform and integration issues. ...

Managing Data Scientist

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Responsibilities: Lead the UK Financial Crime ML portfolio, setting technical direction and ensuring high-quality, scalable model delivery across fraud and transaction monitoring use cases. Driveend-to-end model lifecycle ownership — from data exploration and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and performance optimisation. Provide hands-on technical leadership, reviewing Python code, model design, distributed computing approaches, and architectural decisions. Manage and develop a team of data scientists, setting standards for technical excellence, delivery discipline, and stakeholder engagement. Engage senior stakeholders (1LOD, Compliance, Control Owners, Technology) to prioritise initiatives, resolve competing demands, and ensure regulatory alignment. Candidate ...

Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
Henderson Scott
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Solutions Architect - Technical Design - Infrastructure - Security - Automation - 12 month contract - SC/DV Clearance I have an immediate opportunity for a hands-on Solutions Architect to join a busy programme with our client in Scotland. You will lead end-to-end solution design for a secure shared service platform … bring architectural coherence, governance and technical depth to large delivery programme within the public sector. Due to the nature and urgency of the role, ideal candidates will be British Nationals and hold active SC clearance and willingness to obtain DV clearance. I am keen to speak with candidates ...

Senior Electrical Engineer

Hiring Organisation
EDF Energy
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
deliver some of the UK and Ireland’s most important solar PV, battery storage and private wire projects? Your electrical engineering expertise will shape technical decisions across the project lifecycle while supporting the transition to a cleaner, more secure energy future.At EDF power solutions, we’re shaping an Electric … into action – delivering renewable energy solutions that will power homes, businesses and communities for generations to come.As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership across a growing portfolio of renewable energy projects. From development and design through to construction, commissioning and handover, you’ll help make ...

Lead Technical Application Specialist - Privileged Access Management

Hiring Organisation
Lloyds Banking Group
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
060We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working optionsFlexible Working OptionsHybrid Working, Job ShareJob Description Summary.Job DescriptionJOB TITLE: Lead Technical Application Specialist - Privileged Access ManagementSALARY: 92,701 - 109,060LOCATION: Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, EdinburghHOURS: Full Time (35 Hours)WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which … transforming how privileged access is secured across Lloyds Banking Group through modern PAM platforms, automation and cloud-based security controls. As Lead Technical Application Specialist - Privileged Access Management (PAM), you'll lead a team responsible for building, operating and enhancing the services that govern privileged access across the Group. ...

Senior RF/ Microwave Engineer

Hiring Organisation
FINTEC recruit Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
robust RF/microwave circuits Supporting hardware and system-level integration and verification activities Designing and developing microwave sub-systems Producing and maintaining technical documentation and project deliverables Ensuring designs remain under configuration control Supporting design reviews and technical investigations Providing regular project progress updates Supporting and potentially … supervising less experienced RF/Microwave engineers Planning and managing your own technical activities and deliverables Essential Skills & Experience You should have strong practical experience in RF/Microwave circuit design, ideally within a complex engineering environment. Essential experience includes: Microwave PCB materials and design techniques Microwave sub-system ...

Lead Automation Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Power Automate, Selenium, Playwright and approved AI services and APIs. Lead Automation Engineer will be responsible for (but not limited to): Lead Automation: Set technical direction and remain hands-on in the design, build, testing, deployment and support of business, test and AI-enabled automation. Build & Integrate: Deliver solutions … awareness of secure development, least privilege, credential management, data protection and responsible AI controls. Excellent communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on. Why JC? Johnston Carmichael helps to build success stories that change lives - whether it’s our clients ...

Product Technical Lead - Digital Trust

Hiring Organisation
Thales Group
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
role where your cyber expertise shapes national‐level resilience and the future of secure critical systems!What the role has to offerEnterprise-wide technical influence – shaping consequence informed, secure‐by‐design and AI‐enabled security technologies, and steering the evolution of Thales’ future cyber design capabilitiesOwn the UK Digital … Trust technical strategy, ensuring consequence informed, SbD principles are embedded from concept to decommissioning.Lead development of design patterns for Zero Trust Architecture, including supporting and guiding on the adaption for products, identification of variance and applicability, segmentation, continuous verification, and policy-driven access.Define and evolve Data-Centric Security model ...

Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ

Hiring Organisation
Lloyds Banking Group
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
with deep MQ expertise who want to help shape the future roadmap for messaging on the mainframe.In this role, you'll provide highly specialised technical support across critical mainframe environments while contributing to the strategic direction of our MQ platform. You'll help maintain, modernise and evolve our services … integrate MQ with a range of modern technologies while ensuring our customers continue to receive resilient, secure and reliable services.Additionally, you'll provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments, including participation in out-of-hours support and delivery activities when required.What you’ll do Provide ...

IT & Digital Lead

Location
Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
business continuity, disaster recovery and risk management activities. Lead IT projects from concept through to implementation. Monitor emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions. Provide technical leadership and guidance to stakeholders across the organisation. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning and innovation. About You We are looking ...