1 to 25 of 27 Permanent Technical Leadership Jobs in Bedfordshire

Project Chief Engineer

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
about turning complex customer needs into cutting-edge Electronic Warfare solutions? We're looking for a **Systems Design Authority (SDA) (Delivery)** to lead the technical delivery of EW Payload capabilities, shaping solutions that make a real impact for our customers and operational users. In this **influential role** within Leonardo … Electronic Warfare (EW) Sector, you'll work closely with customers, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders to define, deliver, and assure technical solutions from concept through to implementation. This is an opportunity to **shape both the delivery of today's EW Payload solutions and the development of tomorrow's capabilities ...

Cloud Solutions Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Intercity Technology Limited
Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Design the future of cloud technology. Shape secure, scalable solutions. Join us as a Cloud Solutions Technical Architect! Were looking for an experienced Cloud Solutions Technical Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions that support business transformation. Working closely with customers, technical teams … focused team where your expertise will help shape cloud strategies, optimise customer environments, and deliver measurable business value. Key Responsibilities as a Cloud Solutions Technical Architect: Design end-to-end cloud solutions aligned with business, technical, security, and operational requirements. Develop cloud architecture strategies, roadmaps, high-level designs ...

Senior Laboratory Analysts GC/MS, LC/MS & ICP

Hiring Organisation
Russell Taylor
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
Senior Analytical Scientists across GC-MS, LC-MS and ICP/Inorganic disciplines within an established international environmental testing laboratory. These are senior technical and leadership positions, ideal for experienced analysts who have worked within an environmental or similar testing laboratory and have a strong background in method … development, validation and technical training. The successful candidates will work within a UKAS-accredited environment, providing technical expertise, supporting laboratory performance and helping to develop and mentor analytical teams. Key Responsibilities • Provide senior technical expertise within GC-MS, LC-MS or ICP/Inorganic analytical areas. • Lead ...

Principal Microwave Engineer

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
performance, power, reliability and manufacturability. Contribute to and be supported by an Integrated Project Team. Propose and report on work packages ( cost, schedule and technical progress ). Engage in design reviews and technical discussions with internal stakeholders, partners and customers. Provide technical leadership and mentoring … early‐career and developing engineers Influence design approaches, tools and best practice across microwave teams Where required, support technical reviews across Leonardo UK sites or customer locations (UK and occasional overseas travel). What you’ll bring This role is aimed at engineers with deep microwave or RF expertise ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Description:Your ImpactWe are seeking experienced Lead Software Engineers to take on pivotal Technical Authority roles within our Electronic Warfare (EW) and Future Combat Air programmes based in Luton.This role combines technical leadership with strategic influence, offering significant autonomy and responsibility for critical software components or entire … projects.What You’ll BringSeveral years of embedded software engineering experience in aerospace, defence, or other mission/safety-critical domains.Ability to set technical direction, defining software architecture and design strategies aligned with platform and system goals.Experience ensuring compliance with DO-178C standards or equivalent, and adherence to internal governance ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Description: Your ImpactWe are seeking experienced Lead Software Engineers to take on pivotal Technical Authority roles within our Electronic Warfare (EW) and Future Combat Air programmes based in Luton. This role combines technical leadership with strategic influence, offering significant autonomy and responsibility for critical software components … projects. What You'll BringSeveral years of embedded software engineering experience in aerospace, defence, or other mission/safety-critical domains. Ability to set technical direction, defining software architecture and design strategies aligned with platform and system goals. Experience ensuring compliance with DO-178C standards or equivalent, and adherence ...

Technical Lead - SmartOps

Location
Dunstable, England, United Kingdom
Here at Whitbread, We’re looking for an experienced Smart Operations Technical Lead to shape and lead the technical direction across our Navigator, housekeeping and automation technology. This is a senior technical leadership role that brings delivery and architecture together. You’ll oversee the design … technical quality of solutions throughout the full delivery lifecycle, making sure user and operational needs are translated into clear, buildable technical requirements. Working alongside a Tech Specialist who will focus on detailed implementation, you’ll establish the technical standards and direction required to deliver secure, resilient ...

Lead Platform Architect

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
Manage Change: Govern platform evolution to prevent unmanaged dependencies and friction. Align Globally: Partner with Enterprise Architecture to match platform goals with enterprise strategy. Technical Leadership & Governance Act as Authority: Serve as the final design review voice and technical authority for the platform. Guide Engineering: Provide technical leadership to engineering teams on scalability and resilience. Run Design Reviews: Lead architecture assurance activities to ensure alignment with target models. Control Deviations: Review, document, and strictly control any deviations from established platform standards. Architect Core Layers: Design core layers for identity, operational data, orchestration, and event streaming. ...

Audio Visual Technical Project Manager -event production

Hiring Organisation
Prospero Integrated
Location
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£45000 - £55000/annum
simply be managing projects from behind a desk - you'll be involved in the detail, on site, in the warehouse and working alongside our technical teams to make things happen. You'll be responsible for understanding the brief, designing systems, assessing equipment requirements, producing technical documentation and ensuring … deliver successfully. What You'll Be Doing Working closely with account managers and producers to understand client requirements and develop accurate equipment specifications and technical solutions . Designing systems with efficiency, reliability and real-world deployment in mind. Producing CAD plans, schematics, technical drawings and event information documents ...

Remote Senior Software Engineer

Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
reliable software Engineer backend APIs, Graph, and AI-driven products, including agentic and generative AI capabilities Assume full ownership of assigned tasks, demonstrating leadership, and setting a positive example as a Senior member of the team. Ensure that each task is executed with a high level of competence … commitment, and in alignment with team goals Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for software development projects and teams. Partner with cloud architects and leads to design the requirements for backend services and APIs Contribution and construction of the product roadmap including design and testing of POC products ...

Remote Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE UK Remote

Location
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
experience. Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.). Strong experience with technical leadership, leading a team through projects, mentoring other engineers on the team and serving as a force-multiplier Experience operating multi-tenant systems … considering reliability at all stages of the service lifecycle. Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps and technical designs Participate in PR review and collaborating with other engineers on their Design Docs Teach others about Site Reliability Engineering and communicate best practices ...

Remote Engineering Manager

Location
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Engineering Manager to make sure the way we lead, develop and support engineers grows with it. The Role This is a genuine people leadership role. You ll manage approximately 12 engineers working across three product teams, with the team expected to continue growing. Each product team has a Tech … Lead responsible for technical direction, alongside Product and Design. Your focus is different: the engineers themselves. This isn t a role for somebody looking to move away from engineering completely, though. You ll need enough technical depth to understand the work, follow engineering discussions and ask good questions ...

Senior Software Development Engineer (Flexible/Remote working)

Location
Shefford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
regular. While our roots are in NYC, we re intentionally investing in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a key hub, with an established leadership presence, a local team, and community for the long term. This role is fully remote, offering you flexibility to work from anywhere within NI. … Senior Software Engineer on this growing team, you ll play a key role in shaping the future of these systems. You ll help guide technical decisions, improve platform reliability and scalability, contribute hands-on code, and mentor other engineers. This is an opportunity to have meaningful influence across ...

Remote Senior Software Engineer - In-Store

Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
regular. While our roots are in NYC, we re intentionally investing in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a key hub, with an established leadership presence, a local team, and community for the long term. This role is fully remote, offering you flexibility to work from anywhere within NI. … delivery of large-scale features and projects, coordinating efforts across multiple teams and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. Provide mentorship and technical leadership to both junior and senior engineers, helping to grow the technical expertise within the team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Collaborate ...

Senior Software Engineer (.NET) - Remote

Location
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable software Engineer backend APIs, Graph, and AI-driven products, including agentic and generative AI capabilities Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for software development projects and teams. Partner with cloud architects and leads to design the requirements for backend services ...

Remote Senior Software Engineer - In-Store

Hiring Organisation
Olo
Location
Central bedfordshire, United Kingdom
regular. While our roots are in NYC, we’re intentionally investing in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a key hub, with an established leadership presence, a local team, and community for the long term. This role is fully remote, offering you flexibility to work from anywhere within NI. Your … impact Exhibit mastery of the ‘In-Store’ team’s domain, taking a leading role in the design and architecture of complex systems and influencing technical direction and strategy. Own the delivery of large-scale features and projects, coordinating efforts across multiple teams and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
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 … Knowledge of infrastructure‐as‐code, automation and deployment technologies. Experience working within Agile development environments. Strong communication skills with ability to mentor and influence technical teams. Passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Security Clearance This role is subject to pre‐employment screening in line with ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, 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 Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 … 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 ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
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 … 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.**Security Clearance**This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with ...

Product Security Consultant

Hiring Organisation
JAM Recruitment Ltd
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
make a real difference. Join us and help shape the future of defence, security and aerospace. The Principal Product Security Engineer is a senior technical leader within the Product Security team, acting as the focal point for Information Assurance (IA) and Product Security across the PMS domain within … approaches (WBPSec) Maintain and manage PMS contributions to the Whole Boat IA Risk Register Identify, assess and document IA requirement shortfalls and associated risks Technical Governance & Communication Manage and coordinate IA Technical Queries (TQs) and formal communications in line with programme processes Ensure technical outputs consider security ...

Senior Software Engineer (.NET) - Remote

Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
real work done without it ever touching the host, and tear the whole environment down when it's finished. The successful candidate is a technical, product-minded engineer with deep experience building secure, isolated runtime environments (sandboxes, containers, or VMs) and a track record of shipping and owning that … workloads. Engage with the open source and agentic development community around sandboxing, MCP, and related ecosystems. 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale. Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Experience building ...

Senior Operations Research Scientist

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
deployment of mission‐critical optimisation models, simulation tools and decision‐support solutions that support key operational decisions across the airline. You will combine deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement to solve complex operational challenges, influence strategic decisions and deliver measurable business impact. Key responsibilities include: Leading the architecture … continuous improvement. Collaborating with data and technology teams to ensure data quality and availability for optimisation solutions. Mentoring colleagues in operations research techniques, conducting technical reviews and helping establish best practice across the organisation. Representing easyJet through industry events, academic partnerships and engagement with the wider optimisation community. Requirements ...

Capability Manager - Digital Warfare

Location
Luton, England, United Kingdom
forward-thinking mindset, to shape the future of our IA capability. As the Capability Manager - Digital Warfare, you will have a formidable blend of technical leadership, strategic thinking, business acumen and stakeholder engagement.**What you will do*** Own and maintain the Information Advantage product business plan.* Develop compelling … technical value propositions and guide company R&D investment in IA, leveraging our digital platform and advanced sensing, processing and effects technologies.* Provide strategic technical direction to R&D activities, working closely with programme management and finance to ensure that technology maturation outcomes are achieved within time, funding ...

Senior Configuration and Change Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
join our Electronics Warfare (EW) and Combat Air (CA) Design Integrity team. Reporting to the Lead Configuration and Change Manager, you will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in configuration and change control across defence and aerospace programmes. As the Senior Configuration and Change Control Engineer … products. Own, maintain and govern the Configuration Management Plan (CMP), ensuring ongoing compliance with customer and regulatory requirements. Act as the focal point and technical authority for configuration management activities within assigned programmes. Lead and govern configuration and change control processes using TCU as the authoritative source of configuration ...