24 of 24 Technical Leadership Jobs in Essex

Technical Compliance Manager

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 55,000 - 60,000 Annual
Technical Compliance Manager - 60,000 + package Location: Office-based with site, client, and remote flexibility Hours Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm (plus reasonable additional hours as required) Role Overview The Technical Compliance Manager is a senior role combining technical leadership with responsibility for health … safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory compliance across the organisation. The role provides strategic oversight of technical service delivery, engineering standards, and client-facing technical support while ensuring the business operates in full compliance with relevant legislation, ISO management systems, and industry best practice. This role acts ...

Technical Compliance Manager

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler
Location
Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
Technical Compliance Manager - 60,000 + packageLocation: Office-based with site, client, and remote flexibilityHours Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm (plus reasonable additional hours as required)Role Overview The Technical Compliance Manager is a senior role combining technical leadership with responsibility for health, safety, environmental … quality, and regulatory compliance across the organisation. The role provides strategic oversight of technical service delivery, engineering standards, and client-facing technical support while ensuring the business operates in full compliance with relevant legislation, ISO management systems, and industry best practice. This role acts as a central point ...

Hands-on Electronic Manager - Automotive

Hiring Organisation
Verso Recruitment
Location
Harlow, Essex, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
This is an excellent opportunity to join an innovative engineering business where you'll spend around 70% of your time designing electronics, whilst providing technical leadership/Management and project oversight for a team of four experienced Electronics Engineers.\n \n Rather than micromanaging the team … responsible for driving projects forward, ensuring delivery against key milestones, supporting technical decision-making and helping shape the future direction of the electronics function.\n The Role - Hands-on Electronic Manager - Automotive\n \n You'll lead the electronics engineering team whilst remaining heavily involved in the design ...

AI Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
MSX International
Location
Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
innovative solutions and services that help our clients optimize their operations and captivate their customers.Job DescriptionAs AI Solutions Architect you will be the technical expert responsible for designing scalable, secure, and high-performance blueprints that support turning AI concepts into production-grade enterprise assets. In this role you will … bridge the gap between high-level business requirements and AI engineering execution, ensuring that AI-related initiatives are properly evaluated from a technical perspective, architected for value, modularity, scaling and long-term sustainability.This position focuses on technical design, feasibility evaluation, and architectural integrity, serving as the primary technical ...

Chief Engineer

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
technology developments, which support the future growth of our business. The opportunity to be involved as a Chief Engineer represents a chance to provide technical leadership and stewardship for products already in service with customers worldwide. You will ensure continued operational effectiveness, safety and supportability throughout the product … design changes, capability sustainment activities and customer support engagements. In this role, you will support the project teams within the Sensors sector, giving them technical guidance and assurance oversight. Using your experience and authority to provide technical leadership, you will help teams to find the appropriate approach ...

Senior Support Analyst

Hiring Organisation
KINETECH RECRUITMENT LTD
Location
Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£36,000 per annum
Senior Technical Support Analyst/3rd Line Brentwood | Office-based (4 days per week) | Salary to £36,000 + Excellent Benefits Are you already the technical escalation point within your IT Support team? Do you enjoy solving complex technical issues, mentoring colleagues and driving service improvements … recruiting for a Senior Technical Support Analyst to join a growing internal IT team, acting as the bridge between the Service Desk and Infrastructure functions. This is a genuine senior position for someone who has already operated as a technical escalation point, combining hands-on Microsoft technologies with ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.The OpportunityYour ImpactHere at Leonardo, we are seeking experienced Lead Software Engineers to take on pivotal Technical Authority roles within our Integrated Sensors & Protection line of business, working on a range of defence projects.This role combines technical leadership with strategic … example tailored Agile.)Experience using tools associated with Iterative development lifecycles (Jira/DevOps.)Familiarity with development to design and coding standards.Ability to set technical direction, defining software architecture and design strategies aligned with platform and system goals.Experience ensuring compliance standards and adherence to internal governance processes.Strong skills ...

Lead RF Systems Engineer / Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
BAE SYSTEMS
Location
Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.Role DescriptionWe are seeking a highly experienced and driven Lead RF Systems Engineer/Technical Lead to join our growing capability team focused on development of RF systems. This role is ideal for a systems-level thinker with deep … technologies who thrives at the interface of multi-disciplinary teams and excels in shaping innovative system solutions from concept through to demonstrator.Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across Sense & Effect development projects, from early-stage R&D (TRL 2-4) through to advanced technology demonstrators (TRL5/ ...

Lead Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Engineer who loves contributing to the international Defence Industry and making impactful change? We are recruiting for a Lead Systems Engineer to drive LEUK technical delivery of a complex, in-service Communications Systems, working on real engineering problems and shaping solutions that sit at the heart of our operational … based at our Basildon site.Your impactAs the Lead Systems Engineer, you will act as the project team's Design Authority for the system, providing leadership across Systems Engineering activities and acting as the primary technical interface with stakeholders. You will support the definition, refinement and delivery of technical ...

Solution Architect - Land CEMA

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
making impactful change? Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in Defence Communications or Cyber & Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) to enhance the leadership and strategic direction of its work in Land CEMA) to support UK and international customers.A hybrid role based at either Southampton, Basildon or Bristol.Your … challenging and is a pivotal role within Leonardo’s Land CEMA Integrated Capture Team.Activities will range from SI Enterprise Architecture design, identification of technical solutions & architectures, technical leadership in bids and external studies, scope of and participation in PV and support to Capability Management for product portfolios. ...

Solution Architect - Land CEMA

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Basildon, Essex, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
making impactful change? Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in Defence Communications or Cyber & Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) to enhance the leadership and strategic direction of its work in Land CEMA) to support UK and international customers. A hybrid role based at either Southampton, Basildon … challenging and is a pivotal role within Leonardo's Land CEMA Integrated Capture Team. Activities will range from SI Enterprise Architecture design, identification of technical solutions & architectures, technical leadership in bids and external studies, scope of and participation in PV and support to Capability Management for product ...

Director of Engineering - Digital Products

Hiring Organisation
Ford
Location
Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
> £ 150 K
just about maintaining systems; it’s about creating the future of how millions of customers interact with Ford.What You’ll Bring 1. Leadership Experience • Engineering Leadership: 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role (e.g., Head of Engineering, Director … Domain Expertise: Demonstrable experience building both “power user” systems like our dealer-facing UIs, as well as easy-access UIs for end-customers. 2. Technical Fluency • Cloud Native: While you may not code everyday, you have a deep architectural understanding of modern cloud platforms (GCP preferred), microservices, and event ...

Environmental Test Technical Specialist

Hiring Organisation
QinetiQ
Location
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
defence munitions through the application of vibration, shock, climatic & radiography test programs.Day-to-day, you’ll work within a team of senior engineers, providing technical supervision and leadership to test programs. Assessing asset performance within the demanding environments that the systems will be subjected to throughout their operational … Leading environmental test programmes, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, quality standards, and safety legislationLeading the design, planning, and execution of complex environmental trials, providing technical direction and support to team membersReviewing documentation, analysing test data, and producing high-quality reports with robust quality assurance checksCollaborating with customers and internal ...

Enterprise IT Architect

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Basildon, England, United Kingdom
make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv. Enterprise IT Architect About your role You will act as the technical authority and solution architect for Italian client card and payment systems while also serving as the front‐line technical lead for the client. … This role blends strategic system design, architectural governance, and deep hands‐on support, ensuring all technical queries, incidents, and enhancements are handled effectively and with minimal business impact. You will own the end‐to‐end technical landscape, guide design decisions, and lead complex problem resolution, while maintaining close ...

Lead DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
teams looking to shift-left wherever possible#LI-VC1.**Requirements:*** 6+ years in DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineering roles* 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity* Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (VMs/networking/Storage, AKS, App Services, Keyvault)* Deep experience with … Maths and English, or equivalent high school diploma* Works under broad direction and often self-initiates tasks* Makes decisions impacting results and deadlines* Demonstrates leadership in operational management and encourages learning and growth* Understands and evaluates the organizational impact of new technologies and digital services# ******What Cencora offers******Benefit ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Basildon, Essex, 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 ...

Chief Systems Engineer - Precision Guidance

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Wickford, England, United Kingdom
right time. Your role is to help the programme navigate this complexity and deliver high quality, integrated solutions. Your impact This is a senior technical leadership role aimed at supporting strategically important programmes. As Chief Systems Engineer, you will act as the focal point for Systems Engineering governance … capability development, influencing and realising the benefits of robust engineering practice, coherent architectures, and a clear technical direction. You will collaborate closely with engineering, capability, and programme leadership to embed Systems Thinking and influence the business area’s long-term success. To be successful you will demonstrate passion ...

Head of Software - Embedded/DSP/FPGA

Hiring Organisation
Technical Futures Ltd
Location
CB10, Great Chesterford, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £100000/annum Dep on Exp + Hybrid + Benefits
Innovative Technical Consultancy seeks an accomplished Head of Software to lead a multidisciplinary Software department. Working across Embedded, Firmware, DSP, FPGA and AI/ML Software you'll be supporting technologies such as radar, sensing and communications for a range of Client projects primarily in the Defence sector. … bring a balance of technical expertise, management experience and commercial skills. Generous salary package includes Company Bonus scheme, Pension (employer 10%), Private Healthcare, 25 days holiday + option to purchase more, long service awards, Life Assurance, car lease scheme and Hybrid working. The successful Head of Software will manage ...

Bioinformatics Scientist/Engineer – DRAGEN Array

Hiring Organisation
Illumina
Location
Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
development.Collaborate closely with wet‐lab scientists, product management, and engineering teams to translate scientific needs into validated computational solutions.For staff level, provide mentorship and technical guidance to other scientists and engineers, and contribute to best practices in algorithm design, software engineering, and data analysis.Why YouYou will bring deep expertise … machine learning approaches, and scalable software development practices including testing automation, CI/CD, and software lifecycle management. For staff-level candidates, experience providing technical leadership, influencing scientific direction, and mentoring colleagues will be highly valued.You'll also bring:PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Biostatistics, Bioengineering ...

Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Leonardo DRS
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
direction and architectures to fulfil future challenges in the solution space. This shall range from SI Enterprise Architecture design, identification of software solutions & architectures, technical leadership in bids and external studies, scope of and participation in PV through to support to Capability Management for product portfolios.What ...

Senior Systems Design Authority – Electro-Optic Projects

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Basildon, England, United Kingdom
salary range of £78,000–£95,000 for the Project Chief Engineer (Systems Design Authority) within the Sensors business sector. The role involves technical leadership across electro‐optic systems and precision guidance products in a defence context. You will support project teams, provide governance and oversee Design Integrity ...

Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Basildon, Essex, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
direction and architectures to fulfil future challenges in the solution space. This shall range from SI Enterprise Architecture design, identification of software solutions & architectures, technical leadership in bids and external studies, scope of and participation in PV through to support to Capability Management for product portfolios. What ...

Chief Engineer, System Design Authority (In-Service)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Basildon, England, United Kingdom
join the Sensors business sector, providing System Design Authority responsibilities for in-service products. The role emphasizes safety, supportability, and lifecycle governance with technical leadership across design changes and customer engagements. You will lead design reviews, manage technical risk, and collaborate with support engineering, manufacturing and suppliers ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
responsible for the reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence of our SaaS platform. This role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational leadership to build resilient systems that enable rapid product delivery. Responsibilities Own the reliability and performance of production services. Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error … Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog. Experience influencing engineering teams and driving reliability improvements through collaboration and technical leadership. Key Attributes Passion for building reliable production systems. Software engineering mindset with a focus on automation. Strong technical judgement and ownership. Excellent ...