1 to 25 of 28 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 ...

Lead Digital Design Engineer (FPGA & ASIC)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Penicuik, Scotland, United Kingdom
markets ranging from wireless communications to aerospace and defense—technologies that are critical to AMD’s future and to customers worldwide. Beyond hands‐on technical leadership, you’ll help shape the team’s technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and influence best practices across projects. This role offers … strong visibility, real ownership, and clear opportunities for career growth—including progression into technical leadership or people management roles. THE PERSON: You are a collaborative, naturally curious engineer who thrives in a team environment. You communicate complex ideas clearly, enjoy solving challenging problems, and are motivated by continuous ...

Telecoms Project Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MECS Communications Ltd
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Project Engineer to support critical utility, energy, power & telecommunications network infrastructure across Scotland. The role will plan, coordinate & deliver technically complex projects responsible for technical planning, diagrams, documentation, implementation, installation, commissioning & successful handover of projects spanning IP networking, transmission infrastructure & operational telecom environments. The successful candidate will combine strong … technical networking expertise with excellent project delivery capability, enabling them to confidently engage with customers, undertake technical site surveys, coordinate field engineers & ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently & to the highest standards. Technical excellence, customer engagement & successful project delivery are fundamental to success in this role. Role ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, 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 ...

Django Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Morgan Hunt Recruitment
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £850 per day
partnership with a leading UK government organisation to recruit an experienced Django Developer with active SC clearance. The Role To provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, build, productionisation and ongoing operation of secure Django-based applications and supporting infrastructure. The role will establish the development processes … bring extensive experience in productionising and securing Django applications, embedding automated testing, CI/CD and agile development practices, and creating documentation to support Technical Design Authority (TDA), security assurance and operational handover. Responsibilities: · Lead the architecture, development and deployment of secure Django applications and associated infrastructure in Azure. ...

Django Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
partnership with a leading UK government organisation to recruit an experienced Django Developer with active SC clearance. The Role To provide hands‐on technical leadership for the design, build, productionisation and ongoing operation of secure Django‐based applications and supporting infrastructure. The role will establish the development processes … bring extensive experience in productionising and securing Django applications, embedding automated testing, CI/CD and agile development practices, and creating documentation to support Technical Design Authority (TDA), security assurance and operational handover. Responsibilities Lead the architecture, development and deployment of secure Django applications and associated infrastructure in Azure. ...

AI Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Gogar, Scotland, 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 ...

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 ...

Integration Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
Glocomms
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
seeking an experienced Senior Technical Lead – Apigee to drive the design, implementation, and migration of enterprise-scale API management platforms. This role will be responsible for leading the delivery of Apigee Hybrid and Apigee X solutions , supporting complex API transformation programs, and guiding organizations through the migration of legacy … first 2 months Start Date: ASAP Contract Length: 9 to 12 months - likely to extend The successful candidate will act as a senior technical authority, working closely with clients, architects, developers, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing API ecosystems. This is a highly visible, client ...

Lead Software Engineer- Agentic Gen AI / Natural Language Querying

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lead Agentic Gen AI/Natural Language Querying Engineer – Vice President at JPMorgan Chase in Risk Technology, you will lead a specialized technical area, driving impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You will leverage your expertise in software engineering, multi‐agent system design, data science, and NLQ to deliver … quality production code and conduct code reviews. Partner with Data Science, Product, and Business teams to identify requirements and develop NLQ‐enabled solutions. Communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and non‐technical stakeholders, including senior leadership. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance ...

AI Solution Architect - Senior Manager/Associate Director Capital Markets

Hiring Organisation
Datatech Analytics
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, 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
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, 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 ...

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 ...

IT Applications Lead

Hiring Organisation
Cathcart Technology
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
Applications Lead required to join a leading Edinburgh-based organisation undergoing an exciting digital transformation programme. This is a key leadership role responsible for the organisation's enterprise application landscape, leading a specialist team while driving innovation, governance and continual improvement across a modern Microsoft technology estate. The Organisation … organisation's enterprise IT applications, ensuring they remain secure, reliable, well-governed and continually evolving to meet changing business needs. This role combines technical leadership with people management and application governance. You'll lead a specialist applications team while taking ownership of a modern Microsoft application estate centred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cyber Defence Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
security engineering principles. Experience with Configuration as Code (CaC/IaC), GitLab, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines. Proven platform engineering and technical leadership experience, supporting and enhancing security platforms. Some other highly valued skills may include: Experience within the financial services industry. Strong stakeholder management … success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job‐specific technical skills. This role will be based in Glasgow, Knutsford, or Northampton. Purpose of the role To develop, implement and maintain solutions that support ...

Senior Solutions Architect – AWS Migration & Modernisation Cloud Bridge Opportunities · ·

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
architecture and delivery of a large-scale cloud migration and modernisation programme. This is a customer-facing role requiring strong technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and deep AWS migration expertise. What You'll Do Lead architecture for a complex Azure-to-AWS migration programme Drive application and infrastructure modernisation … initiatives Guide senior stakeholders on cloud transformation strategy Produce high and low-level designs, migration plans, and technical governance Act as the senior technical authority throughout delivery Key Requirements Proven experience leading Azure to AWS migrations across: Infrastructure (Windows Servers, Windows Containers) Databases (SQL Server) Legacy .NET application ...

Commissioning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Genesis Technology Services
Location
Glasgow, Glasgow City, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Role purpose: To provide 3rd line support within the MES SPEN Project Engineering team with the ability to understand bespoke, detailed customer designs and technical ownership to the businesses high profile accounts through the utilisation of specialist technical expertise. To add value, in terms of technical skills … through the issuing of detailed network solutions as well as technical leadership and implementation support. Commissioning Engineers are responsible for Project Delivery and Integration along with Project services (Design, Build and Deploy). Key accountabilities and decision ownership: To support the development and evolution of customers products, continuously ...

Senior Cloud Architect: AWS Migration & Modernisation

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
role focuses on end-to-end architecture and delivery for a large-scale cloud migration programme, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement and technical leadership. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with AWS migration strategies and excellent communication skills. This fully remote position offers ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£322/day £322 p/d Outside IR35
Servlets, JDBC Git Jenkins, Maven, JIRA CI/CD experience TDD and automated testing Web Accessibility (NVDA, WAVE, Accessibility Insights) Agile/Scrum experience Technical leadership and client-facing experience Nice to have: MuleSoft, Redux, Node.js, Freemarker, XHTML. If you're interested in this role, click 'apply ...

Principal Firmware Engineer Level 6

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£51.34 - 70.00 per hour + None
role covers the full development lifecycle, including requirements capture, architecture development, FPGA design, integration, verification, and qualification activities. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, support engineering best practice, and contribute to the development of next-generation digital systems. Key Responsibilities Lead the development of FPGA and firmware … solutions for complex electronic systems. Capture, analyse, and manage hardware and firmware requirements. Develop architectural concepts and technical solutions for advanced system functionality. Perform FPGA design, implementation, analysis, and optimisation. Produce technical documentation and support formal design reviews. Define and execute integration, verification, and test strategies. Ensure compliance ...

ServiceNow Lead Architect - UK Wide - Remote

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
private sector clients. Hiring on behalf of the client, this role is ideal for an experienced ServiceNow Lead Solution Architect looking to combine technical leadership with stakeholder engagement while shaping the future of enterprise S... WKCL1_UKTJ ...