Top Engineering Jobs in Bristol

Lead and deliver complex engineering and aerospace projects from initiation to close. Create and maintain plans, schedules, budgets and governance; manage risks, stakeholders and cross-functional teams; facilitate meetings, report to senior stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement and best-practice adoption.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead architecture and development teams to deliver end-to-end, high-impact solutions for clients (notably Defence & Security). Shape and communicate multi-domain architectural strategies, drive business development and pre-sales, build trusted senior stakeholder relationships, coach and grow teams, and help launch new service propositions using cloud platforms, microservices and architecture modelling tools.

Lead and mentor an optical engineering team to design, build, and validate laser interferometry-based photonic systems for a medical neuromonitoring device. Own optical design, modelling (Zemax/COMSOL), tolerance analysis, integration with mechanical/electronic subsystems, manufacturing transfer, supplier management, and compliance with ISO 13485/IEC 60601-1. Contribute technically and drive V&V, design reviews, and production readiness.

As a Graduate in Product Lifecycle Management Engineering, you will support various industries by improving operational efficiency and assisting in the design and deployment of PLM solutions.

Lead a distributed infrastructure team to design, operate, and modernize AWS-based platforms (GRiD, DataX, GRiD2). Own platform resilience, multi-region architecture, disaster recovery, IaC (CDK/OpenTofu), security (IAM, OIDC), and support migration to GRiD2. Provide hands-on technical leadership: code reviews, troubleshooting, prototyping, developer tooling, and mentoring while contributing to on-call/support rota and cross-team collaboration.

Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable enterprise software for private banking. Build reusable frameworks, integrate AI/ML, ensure operational stability, mentor engineering teams, and influence senior stakeholders to drive digital transformation.

Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.

Lead and coordinate engineering activities for the UoB trial laboratory and Simulant Testing and Evaluation Facility (STEF). Manage design development, suppliers, commissioning, regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement, documentation, cost and work-hour estimates, and design changes to ensure facilities meet client and project requirements. Support trial setup, reporting, and cross-discipline coordination.

Lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team for warehousing systems. Oversee agile delivery, technical direction, architecture, cloud-native practices, quality standards, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, observable software solutions.

Senior full-stack product engineer owning large product areas end-to-end: research, write specs, design wireframes, implement features across frontend and backend, and collaborate closely with product, design, and infra. Focus on solving customer problems, building durable abstractions, and shipping high-quality, scalable software.

Senior full‑stack product engineer owning a large product area end-to-end: research customers, write specs and wireframes, design and implement features across frontend and backend, collaborate with product and design, and ship high-quality scalable software.

Lead and grow engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based systems. Define cloud architecture and technical strategy, improve CI/CD and DevOps practices, oversee project delivery, optimize AWS infrastructure for performance and cost, implement monitoring and disaster recovery, and collaborate with product and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business goals.

Lead a team of 4-6 software engineers with ~40% hands-on technical work. Drive architecture, coding standards, CI/CD, observability, incident playbooks, SLOs, and predictable delivery. Collaborate with Product and stakeholders, improve developer workflows and tooling, automate toil, and recruit and develop talent while fostering inclusive, high-performing teams.

As an Engineering Manager, oversee data engineering and analytics projects, while leading teams focused on data platforms and governance. Foster collaboration and ensure operational compliance.

Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team, ensuring technical leadership, adherence to standards, and alignment with business priorities in a complex environment.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Lead and develop a team of Software Development Solution Engineers to drive enterprise adoption of Azure and GitHub developer platforms, GitHub Copilot, and security/DevOps practices. Coach technical presales, build reusable plays and demos, engage senior technical decision-makers, inspect pipeline execution, resolve escalations, and align product and go-to-market strategies to achieve measurable adoption and developer productivity outcomes.

Lead a small engineering team, own technical direction, delivery, hiring and team health. Stay hands-on with code reviews and shipping, unblock teams, work with product to prioritize work, give feedback and run performance reviews, and raise engineering standards.

Lead platform engineering for enterprise productivity services (Microsoft 365, Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, Power Platform, Copilot). Own roadmap, security, reliability, cost optimisation and adoption. Drive engineering excellence, SRE practices, automation, observability, vendor/stakeholder management, and build high-performing teams to deliver secure AI, collaboration and automation capabilities.

Lead strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for enterprise productivity platforms (M365, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, Power Platform). Own platform engineering, security, reliability, incident management, cost optimisation and AI governance. Build and coach engineering teams, manage vendors and stakeholders, and drive adoption of automation and secure Copilot capabilities to improve colleague productivity and business outcomes.

Lead and grow a software engineering team to modernize order management systems. Drive agile delivery, technical standards, architecture, DevOps practices, and ensure software quality, reliability, and scalability to support online growth.

Lead engineering teams delivering SAP finance changes (R2R, P2P, O2C, Reporting, Data). Own engineering strategy, quality, reliability, CI/CD, operational readiness, and partner with Product, Architecture and business stakeholders. Manage 4-5 engineering managers, dependencies, technical risk and delivery across a complex enterprise SAP landscape.

Lead and modernise the order management software by building and managing a high-performing engineering team. Drive technical direction, standards, and cloud-native architecture, oversee agile delivery, quality assurance, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, reliable, secure systems supporting online growth.

Lead engineering teams delivering SAP Core Finance changes across R2R, P2P, O2C, Reporting and Data. Set engineering standards, manage delivery, risk and dependencies, and lead 4-5 Engineering Managers to ensure secure, reliable, observable, and well-governed SAP finance outcomes aligned with product and business objectives.