1 to 25 of 28 Permanent Technical Leadership Jobs in Scotland

ServiceNow Architect

Hiring Organisation
Focus on SAP
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
create meaningful impact for the people and communities they serve. For you, this means working on challenging projects that demand innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership . Role – We are seeking an experienced ServiceNow Architect to lead the design, governance, and implementation of enterprise-scale ServiceNow solutions within a complex … defining end-to-end ServiceNow architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, and supporting digital transformation initiatives across multiple ServiceNow modules. You will provide technical leadership, establish governance frameworks, and guide development teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions. Key Responsibilities: Architecture & Strategy Define and maintain enterprise ...

Technical Team Leader (Application Support)

Hiring Organisation
CGI
Location
Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Technical Team Leader (Application Support) Position Description At CGI, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, security and continuous improvement of business-critical … application services that help our client, a major Public Sector body, achieve their strategic goals. As a Technical Team Lead (Applications), you'll take ownership of a complex application estate, guiding teams through operational challenges, driving service excellence and shaping technical roadmaps that deliver long-term value. Working ...

Power Platform Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Shape IT Recruitment
Location
Scotland, United Kingdom
Power Platform Technical Architect Location: Scotland (Candidates must be based in Scotland) Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite Contract: Outside IR35 Rate: £475 - £525 per day Duration: Initial 6 months with extension potential I'm partnering with a leading Microsoft Partner to appoint an experienced Technical Architect to support a major enterprise Power Platform programme. This role offers the opportunity to lead architecture, performance optimisation, and technical delivery across a complex Power Platform estate, working alongside senior stakeholders and specialist teams in a highly collaborative environment. This position would suit a seasoned architect ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade 'DBT' are seeking experienced Technical Architects to support major digital and technology programmes. This is an opportunity to design secure, modern and user-centred services, provide technical leadership and help deliver … benefits and 29% employer pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford. About role DBT are seeking 4 Technical Architects to join their growing, collaborative team. These roles offer the opportunity to shape the technical direction of services, influencing design decisions from ...

Director of Software Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Spire
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self-healing, and data intelligent. This Director will lead that transformation. You will set the technical vision, define the architecture, build and inspire the team, and personally raise the standard for what modern space operations look like. The old model … continuous improvement baked into the system. What This Role Is Not: This is not a role for someone who wants to graduate out of technical work. If your ideal week is back-to-back 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder syncs, this is not the right fit. We need ...

Senior Propulsion Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Alexander Associates
Location
California, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 80,900 - 123,800 Annual
propulsion systems and products from concept through deployment. Perform propulsion system performance calculations, modelling, analysis, and detailed system design activities. Define, manage, and maintain technical requirements throughout the product lifecycle. Lead systems engineering activities and provide technical direction across multidisciplinary teams. Plan, execute, and analyse development and qualification … testing activities. Develop test plans, instrumentation strategies, data acquisition methods, and post-test analysis reports. Communicate technical progress, risks, and solutions to internal and external stakeholders. Apply sound engineering judgement and risk-based decision-making to complex technical challenges. Support project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and programme execution. ...

Principal Mechanical Design Engineer - Edinburgh - 65K, Bonus

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
Edinburgh, Stockbridge, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£55000 - £65000/annum Bonus, Hybrid, WFH
Mechanical Design Engineer to join its product development team. This is a senior-ranking opportunity for someone who enjoys leading complex design work, shaping technical direction, and working across multidisciplinary projects in a precision-led environment. In return, you'll join a supportive organisation well versed in keeping their … progress professionally, and a range of other benefits (that they've recently added to again) designed with employee happiness in mind. Role Outline Provide technical leadership on complex mechanical design projects including new technologies and product improvements from concept through to release. Set direction on design approach, lead ...

AI Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Overview We are seeking an AI Engineering Lead to sit at the top of our client’s delivery structure. This role bridges strategic leadership and hands‐on delivery, providing day‐to‐day technical direction to a team of consultants and ensuring high‐quality outcomes across multiple client environments. … Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of AI/ML and GenAI programmes: discovery, architecture, build, deployment and operationalisation. Act as the senior technical authority for clients, translating complex concepts into clear defined strategies for senior non‐technical stakeholders. Own solution quality: engineering standards, code reviews, model governance ...

AI Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
City Facilities Management
Location
G5, Glasgow, Glasgow City, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
LLMs, with a focus on reliability and cost-aware deployment. As a Lead, this role will bridge cutting-edge research and production engineering - setting technical direction, mentoring a high-performing team, and ensuring AI solutions are robust, scalable, and responsible. PRINCIPAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Design and implement secure … quality, and delivery speed Optimize performance for latency, cost, accuracy, security and reliability Ensure all software that is created is in line with the technical roadmap, development guidelines and security standards. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues across the product. Ensure code reviews and automated tests to support ...

AI Solution Architect - Senior Manager/Associate Director | Capital Markets

Hiring Organisation
Datatech
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, 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 ...

Senior Principal Digital Front- End Design Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Software Placements
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
will be a part of an experienced Front-End Engineering Team, working with our Global Chiplet team in Europe, India and the USA. Responsibilities: Technical leadership of complex Silicon programs consisting of leading-edge IP Work closely with our Chiplet Architecture team to define next generation Chiplets Integration … Solutions e.g. UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, NPU, Audio, Vision Integration of partner IP Solutions e.g. CPUs, ISP, Silicon Monitors, NoCs Hands-on leadership of RTL, Testbench, Formal Analysis and Trial Synthesis activities Quality Assurance, via implementation of hierarchical LINT, CDC and release flows Planning of activities and milestones ...

Vice President Software Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
exceptional Vice President of Software Engineering to lead and evolve a large, high-performing engineering organisation. This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership, organisational scale, and AI‐driven innovation. You will take ownership of an engineering function of 100–120 Software Engineers, supported by 6 Software … play a central role in shaping both capability and culture during a critical growth phase. This is a true player‐coach position—requiring deep technical credibility alongside proven leadership at scale. Key Responsibilities Lead, develop, and scale a multi‐layered engineering organisation, ensuring strong leadership at every ...

R&D Engineering Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Engineering Lead Senior technical leader within the Global ServiceNow Portfolio organisation, reporting directly to the CTO/Portfolio Lead. Responsible for driving engineering-led innovation, building next-generation accelerators, architecting cutting‐edge GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities, and supporting the creation of differentiated IP for Atos’ global ServiceNow business. … Strategic Impact Drive the technical innovation engine for the global ServiceNow business, aligned to portfolio strategy. Build reusable frameworks, accelerators, AI‐powered components, and IP that enhance competitive differentiation. Lead R&D initiatives exploring GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, integration patterns, and emerging ServiceNow capabilities. Strengthen Atos’ positioning with ServiceNow ...

IT Operations Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Bidwells LLP
Location
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
supporting cyber security. There will also be some interesting work around documentation, knowledge sharing and helping team members develop. What youll be doing Technical Leadership Become the lead in at least one of the Core business systems and ensure you have sufficient training and knowledge to provide cover … other team members where required. With support, plan and undertake project work, including design, and service improvement work. Ensure technical documentation is created and kept up to date IT Estate Management Work within the team to support the Infrastructure and Systems Operations across all sites. Ensure patch management systems ...

Solution Architect - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Hiring Organisation
Frontier Resourcing Ltd
Location
Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
specialist consultancy partners. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering technology solutions that support manufacturing operations. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant solution designs while ensuring alignment across applications, data, security, and integration domains. This … integration approaches between MES, ERP, quality, automation, and other operational systems. Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, including solution designs, data flows, integration models, and technical documentation. Collaborate with business stakeholders, project teams, vendors, and consultancy partners to ensure solutions meet operational and regulatory requirements. Ensure security, compliance, data governance ...

Lead Azure Platform Engineer, PaaS, Home Based

Hiring Organisation
Fdo Consulting Limited
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Lead Azure Cloud Platform Engineer, Financial Service environment, Azure platform leadership across enterprise PaaS, Fully Home Based, c £ 90000 - 100000 + bonus + benefits. Financial Service client is looking for a stand alone lead Azure Cloud Platform Engineer with excellent knowledge of Terrafrom and proven Azure platform leadership … environment. To be considered you must have worked in a similar Lead Azure cloud role. The role combines practical Azure engineering delivery with technical leadership, architectural design input, engineering mentoring and platform enablement. The successful candidate will lead by example, working directly on Azure platform services, Terraform modules ...

SME Software Team Leader

Hiring Organisation
BAE Systems
Location
South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary
55498 GBP Annually
Software Team Leader, you will play a key role in delivering cutting-edge software solutions for mission-critical hardware systems while providing leadership, direction and support to a team of software engineers. Working on complex aerospace and defence products, you will be involved throughout the full product lifecycle, from … requirements capture and design through to development, integration, verification and support. You will be responsible for guiding technical delivery, coordinating team activities, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering environment that enables individuals and teams to succeed. Working closely with systems, hardware and test engineers, you will contribute ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Global
Location
Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform. Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous … across Global. Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment. Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices. Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming ...

Senior Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 per annum
leveraged across the business. This is an opportunity for a technically strong architect who can hit the ground running from day one, providing architectural leadership across enterprise data platforms, analytics initiatives, machine learning capabilities and emerging AI solutions. You'll be responsible for defining and governing data architecture standards … data architecture Designing logical and physical data models for operational, analytical and AI use cases Establishing architecture standards, patterns, principles and governance frameworks Providing technical leadership and architectural assurance across delivery teams Collaborating with stakeholders across technology, data, analytics, security and business functions Driving best practice in data ...

Senior Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 per annum
leveraged across the business. This is an opportunity for a technically strong architect who can hit the ground running from day one, providing architectural leadership across enterprise data platforms, analytics initiatives, machine learning capabilities and emerging AI solutions. You'll be responsible for defining and governing data architecture standards … data architecture Designing logical and physical data models for operational, analytical and AI use cases Establishing architecture standards, patterns, principles and governance frameworks Providing technical leadership and architectural assurance across delivery teams Collaborating with stakeholders across technology, data, analytics, security and business functions Driving best practice in data ...

Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iSupply Recruitment Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £75,000 per annum
observable infrastructure Driving operational excellence through monitoring, observability, and SRE principles Working closely with stakeholders to define product roadmaps and future enhancements Providing technical leadership and sharing engineering best practices across teams What We're Looking For We're keen to speak with engineers who have experience across ...

Electrical Engineering – Data Centres (Relocation to Frankfurt)

Hiring Organisation
Reed Talent Solutions
Location
Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
with a strong background in data centres or mission-critical infrastructure , who is ready to step into a broader leadership role within a global consultancy. What’s in It for You Relocation to Europe’s Data-Centre Capital – Frankfurt is one of the most active data-centre markets … world. By relocating, you will place yourself at the centre of large-scale, hyperscale and colocation developments with long-term project pipelines. Technical Leadership Without the Job-Title Politics – This role is about influence, technical authority, and decision-making. You’ll lead complex electrical design and delivery ...

ServiceNow Architect

Hiring Organisation
Gazelle Global Consulting Ltd
Location
Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, UK
ServiceNow architecture aligned to enterprise standards and roadmaps. Design and implement solutions across ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, CMDB, IRM and related modules. Provide technical leadership, governance, and architectural oversight throughout project lifecycles. Lead integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, MID Server, data imports, and enterprise monitoring tools. Ensure platform ...

Senior Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £100,000 per annum
shaping and governing enterprise data architecture to support analytics, reporting and advanced AI use cases in complex, regulated environments. This position is a senior technical leadership role where you will provide architectural oversight rather than hands-on delivery. You will play a critical role in ensuring data ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 85,000 Annual
Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade 'DBT' are seeking experienced Technical Architects to support major digital and technology programmes. This is an opportunity to design secure, modern and user-centred services, provide technical leadership and help deliver ...