166 Director Of Engineering jobs in the United Kingdom

Opportunity to lead the structural engineering division of a national consultancy in Manchester and with the potential to become the Regional Director (all disciplines), with equity.

We want to hire a Director/ Associate Director/ up and coming Associate Structural Engineer who has a personal brand in Manchester and the attributes to lead. If you have the potential and drive to become the regional director and part-owner of this highly respected practice, that's even better.

The opportunity

• To land in a warm seat, within an existing multidisciplinary team (including Structures)
• Privately owned by engineers, with owner leaders who invest in employee engagement (high employee engagement and retention)
• Well established and stable team, with a diverse project sector portfolio, including large projects in and around Manchester. Long standing track record and brand in the city and region.
• High quality office space, in the city centre
• Long-established, high-quality brand, national consultancy, regular award winners
• The opportunity to become an equity director on merit with investment
• All the infrastructure is in place for you to thrive

Why hire you?

• You have developed your career to Associate/ Associate Director/ Director grade in Manchester and have a network/ personal brand in the local market
• You aspire to lead and grow the team and be one of the principal Manchester office leaders
• You're technically excellent and a Chartered Member of the IStructE and or ICE
• You understand the value of employee engagement and are considered to be good leader and manager
• You are financially and commercially astute
• You favour integrated, collaborative, multidisciplinary teams/ working- team player

What next

Complete the straightforward application process and we'll review and respond within 7 working days. If you would like to talk before deciding whether to apply or if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you, please contact Alex Wraith.

Thank you

Director of Engineering

Delta Mobrey Ltd is a design engineering and manufacturing company providing products to support the nuclear power, oil & gas, mining, energy and marine industries. We are recruiting for a Director of Engineering who will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer.

You will be responsible for managing and developing the Engineering department across 3 Delta Mobrey sites in UK, Bulgaria and Malaysia to include:

• Propose and deploy the Engineering strategy,
• Develop supporting processes and systems,
• Manage Engineering teams across our 3 engineering sites (UK, Bulgaria, Malaysia)
• Develop adequate skills,
• Ensure performance of the engineering department deliverables (On-Time, Quality, Cost)

As the Company achieves its growth objectives, this role will evolve.

We are therefore looking for an individual who is experienced in their Engineering career and has the drive and ambition to build their team. In return you will receive an excellent starting salary with further increases as you progress, 25 days holiday, medical and dental provision, a generous Company pension scheme and life assurance.

Must haves:

1. Significant experience in developing a technological product,
2. Highly analytical and familiar with the data management challenge within the Engineering function,
3. Engagement and accountability from their team and lead by example.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be British.

To apply please send your CV with a covering letter explaining why you are suitable for the role.

No agencies please. If you do not receive a reply within 7 days, please accept that you have not been successful on this occasion.

Redline has been retained by a leading process instrumentation manufacturer who are looking for a Director of Engineering to join their R&D team based in Surrey.

Due to significant growth, they are seeking a Director of Engineering to be responsible for engineering across 3x sites. You will manage all engineering deliverables, define and implement the engineering strategy and ensure performance meeting business needs and objectives.

The nature of the industry and products will require someone who is a British Citizen.

Key skills and experience for Director of Engineering, based in Surrey:

• Proven experience leading an Engineering / R&D organisation
• Experience in the R&D of mechanical and electronic/electrical products
• Proven background in a regulated industry i.e. Defence, Aerospace, Medical, Automotive etc.
• Degree qualified in a related Electronics discipline
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company who can offer the opportunity for career progression and personal development.

To apply for this Director of Engineering role, based in Surrey, please send your CV to (url removed), or for more information contact Ricky Wilcocks on (phone number removed) or (phone number removed)

Opportunity to lead the structural engineering division of a national consultancy in Manchester and with the potential to become the Regional Director (all disciplines), with equity.

We want to hire a Director/ Associate Director/ up and coming Associate Structural Engineer who has a personal brand in Manchester and the attributes to lead. If you have the potential and drive to become the regional director and part-owner of this highly respected practice, that's even better.

The opportunity

• To land in a warm seat, within an existing multidisciplinary team (including Structures)
• Privately owned by engineers, with owner leaders who invest in employee engagement (high employee engagement and retention)
• Well established and stable team, with a diverse project sector portfolio, including large projects in and around Manchester. Long standing track record and brand in the city and region.
• High quality office space, in the city centre
• Long-established, high-quality brand, national consultancy, regular award winners
• The opportunity to become an equity director on merit with investment
• All the infrastructure is in place for you to thrive

Why hire you?

• You have developed your career to Associate/ Associate Director/ Director grade in Manchester and have a network/ personal brand in the local market
• You aspire to lead and grow the team and be one of the principal Manchester office leaders
• You're technically excellent and a Chartered Member of the IStructE and or ICE
• You understand the value of employee engagement and are considered to be good leader and manager
• You are financially and commercially astute
• You favour integrated, collaborative, multidisciplinary teams/ working- team player

What next

Complete the straightforward application process and we'll review and respond within 7 working days. If you would like to talk before deciding whether to apply or if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you, please contact Alex Wraith.

Thank you

Director of Engineering

Delta Mobrey Ltd is a design engineering and manufacturing company providing products to support the nuclear power, oil & gas, mining, energy and marine industries. We are recruiting for a Director of Engineering who will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer.

You will be responsible for managing and developing the Engineering department across 3 Delta Mobrey sites in UK, Bulgaria and Malaysia to include:

• Propose and deploy the Engineering strategy,
• Develop supporting processes and systems,
• Manage Engineering teams across our 3 engineering sites (UK, Bulgaria, Malaysia)
• Develop adequate skills,
• Ensure performance of the engineering department deliverables (On-Time, Quality, Cost)

As the Company achieves its growth objectives, this role will evolve.

We are therefore looking for an individual who is experienced in their Engineering career and has the drive and ambition to build their team. In return you will receive an excellent starting salary with further increases as you progress, 25 days holiday, medical and dental provision, a generous Company pension scheme and life assurance.

Must haves:

1. Significant experience in developing a technological product,
2. Highly analytical and familiar with the data management challenge within the Engineering function,
3. Engagement and accountability from their team and lead by example.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be British.

To apply please send your CV with a covering letter explaining why you are suitable for the role.

No agencies please. If you do not receive a reply within 7 days, please accept that you have not been successful on this occasion.

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

OverviewnAt Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Advances in AI, data, and computational sciences are transforming drug discovery and development. Roche’s Research and Early Development organisations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Seamless data sharing and access to models across gRED and pRED are essential to maximising these opportunities. The new Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CoE) is a strategic, unified group whose goal is to harness this transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist our scientists in both pRED and gRED to deliver more innovative and transformative medicines for patients worldwide.

Within the CoE, the

Data and Digital Catalysts (DDC)

organisation is modernising our computational and data ecosystems, building interconnected solutions that accelerate discovery and decision-making. The Solutions team within DDC creates engineering solutions on top of this data ecosystem—designing applications and pipelines that support computational scientists, bench scientists, and ML/AI engineers across the globe.

As

Director, Software Engineering , you will provide visionary leadership to shape and deliver engineering solutions across our data stack. Your work will directly empower scientists and researchers, enabling breakthroughs that bring innovative medicines to patients faster.

The Opportunity

Lead engineering strategy by driving consolidation, reducing technical debt, and developing common solutions across domains.

Inspire and grow talent through hiring, mentoring, and creating opportunities that unleash potential and strengthen team capability.

Deliver technical excellence by ensuring solutions are scalable, modular, FAIR-compliant, and aligned with industry best practices.

Influence roadmaps and standards in collaboration with Product Leaders, Distinguished Engineers, Architects, and domain experts.

Advance interoperability by designing global applications that integrate seamlessly across data workflows, supporting use cases from lab science to AI/ML.

Foster collaboration to break down silos, share best practices, and accelerate impact across the enterprise.

Champion innovation by adopting an Open Source, Cloud-first, API-first, AI-first approach.

Who You Are

Experienced in leading software and data engineering teams, with proven success delivering enterprise-scale solutions.

Skilled in modern software engineering approaches (cloud-native design, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems) and working experience with Databases and Data Analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ELT), APIs (REST, GraphQL).

Strong technical background in building robust data pipelines, applications, and full-stack solutions (front-end, back-end, databases - HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python and Java).

Strategic thinker who balances long-term vision with urgent delivery.

Passionate about technical excellence, product usability, and reducing complexity.

Recognised as a collaborative leader, mentor, and coach who builds trust and fosters shared ownership.

#ComputationCoE

Who we arenA healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

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Intuition Machines uses AI/ML to build enterprise security products. We apply our research to systems that serve hundreds of millions of people, with a team distributed around the world. You are probably familiar with our best-known product, the hCaptcha security suite. Our approach is simple: low overhead, small teams, and rapid iteration.

As Engineering Director, you will organize engineering efforts. This involves ensuring timely delivery of customer needs while upholding high code quality, security, and service availability standards. Additionally, you'll serve as a domain expert to review and guide architecture and implementation for our initiatives.

What will you do:

• Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate both complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.
• Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while maintaining development velocity; availability is core to nearly every requirement.
• Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure we maintain high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible.
• In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.
• Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.

What we are looking for:

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
• Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and, ideally, C/C++, Go, or Rust.
• Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, test-driven design in large scale internet-facing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources.

What do we offer:

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of our team.

Join us as we transform cyber security, user privacy, and machine learning online!