81 Release Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom

Manufacturing BOM Engineer Release Specialist

12-month initial contract

Hybrid working - Coventry

29ph (Inside IR35), 40 hrs pw

*Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.*

About the company

I am currently recruiting on behalf of an automotive OEM, based in Coventry, who are seeking a Manufacturing BOM Engineer Release Specialist to join their team

Job Description

As Manufacturing BOM Engineer Release Specialist, your main responsibilities are:

• Load, validate and release all Engineering Concerns (Change Orders/Change Actions) in DELMIA
• Attend regular cross-functional meetings
• Maintain progress reports to their line managers and with the customer.
• Conduct any validation activities needed to ensure our releases are robust and accurate.
• Manage the releases to completion and within the programme timing.

Qualifications / Skills needed

• Proven experience in engineering release.
• Well knowledge of Navigating Engineering structure.
• Experience or knowledge of driving process improvement activities and managing change.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, preferably in the automotive industry.
• DELMIA Knowledge
• Experience of using Agile methodology, JIRA / Confluence

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Our client provides innovative fully managed solutions within the automotive fleet management sector. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and oversee their software development function, with a strong focus on ERP and CRM platforms. This role will be responsible for planning, scheduling, and managing the workloads of the development team, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and oversee software development projects, ensuring delivery against project timelines, budgets, and scope.
li>Manage, coach, and mentor a team of software developers, facilitating their professional growth and performance.
• Oversee sprint planning, resource allocation, and workload management among engineers.
• Collaborate closely with business analysts, project managers, infrastructure teams, and other key stakeholders to define requirements and align on project objectives.
• Ensure all software solutions meet agreed-upon standards for quality, performance, and security through robust quality assurance processes.
• Lead process improvements, championing best practices and rigour in software development, agile methodologies, and documentation.
• Oversee the release management process—evaluating change requests, planning, deployment, and post-release reviews.
< i>Contribute to and support technical decision-making, providing guidance and architectural input where needed, utilise feedback loops where applicable to aid improvements for future sprints.
• Hire, onboard, and train new engineering talent as required, and participate in performance reviews, provide guidance, support, and feedback to team members which enhance their skills and performance.
• Report on progress, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, and help align technical delivery with business strategy.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, legal, and security guidelines relevant to ERP/CRM solutions as appropriate.

Key Skills and Necessary Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in a Software Development role or relevant background.
< i>Strong leadership and team motivation skills, with a track record of building, nurturing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate technical vision, sprint plans, progress, and obstacles to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Accountability-focused: able to set clear objectives, hold teams and individuals to account, and drive outcomes consistently.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to assess complex, ambiguous problems and guide teams to effective, innovative solutions.
• Adaptability and flexibility, willing to pivot in response to changing project requirements or business priorities while maintaining delivery focus.
• Proficient in risk management: skilled at identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across technical, resource, and delivery aspects.
• Experienced in resource and budget management, optimising engineering resources, controlling costs, and ensuring efficient use of team capabilities.
• Technical competence and hands-on knowledge of ERP/CRM platforms and associated integration technologies.
• Familiarity with modern software engineering practices, Agile methodologies, and continuous delivery processes.
• Skilled with digital project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar systems.
• Previous experience of engineering and implementing effective code-based solutions.
• Proficiency in business-critical IT tools (Power BI, Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, web tools) to support daily operations and reporting.
• High integrity, resilience, and a continuous improvement mentality, always looking for ways to enhance team capability and delivery quality

This is a pivotal role within this business at a time when they are going through a period of major growth and expansion to enable them to be no1 in their field. A great time to join an innovative company.

Software Engineering Manager - 85,000

Title : Software Engineering Manager

Client : Software house

Location : London (Hybrid)

Salary : Up to 85,000

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this is an opportunity for a Software Engineering Manager with at least 1 year's experience as a Scrum Master to join a growing and highly technical team of software engineers in the graphics/scientific/engineering computing space.

You will have overall responsibility for overseeing the development roadmap and overall development activities, with scope to grow further within the business. There are currently 10 developers in your team.

Requirements:

• 2 years+ as an Engineering Manager
• C++ is your strongest language
• 1 year+ as Scrum Master

If you are interested learning more, please contact (email address removed). com for more information or a confidential chat.

Engineering Director | FTSE250

Overview:

This position is pivotal in advancing growth, enhancing operational efficiency, and fostering innovation in the delivery of technological solutions across the organisation. It occupies a key strategic role at the confluence of engineering excellence, progressive delivery methodologies, and measurable business impact. Far more than a managerial post, this is a leadership role tasked with guiding high-performing engineering teams and ensuring that technological initiatives generate meaningful value for both the enterprise and its customers.

The successful candidate will work in close partnership with engineering, architecture, and product functions to ensure the development and delivery of robust, scalable, and secure solutions. Simultaneously, they will champion a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous professional development. The existing team comprises in excess of 30+ engineers. The organisation is presently undergoing a significant transformation from a project-led to a product-centric delivery model

Why could you be interested:

• Strong eNPS (+80)
• Culture of recognition and one of the UK’s top workplaces 

Location:  North West London / Home Counties  

Onsite presence : 3 days a week

Salary:  Circa £130k + Bonus + other bens

Experience required:

• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, and microservices
• Building / scaling high-performing engineering teams, with a passion for mentoring and coaching
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technology and business.
• Leading large-scale digital transformation, modernisation, or complex tech delivery programmes
• Able to foster a culture of professional growth, continuous learning and innovation within the team.  

If interested, please get in touch

Julian

Xpertise Recruitment

Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager - London - Remote/Hybrid - 65k NEG

Are you a Software Engineering Manager or Lead Engineer ready to drive significant change? We are transforming our highly successful desktop ERP into a cutting-edge, self-hosted web solution. This is a fundamental rebuild, designed to significantly improve operational scalability and team efficiency.

What You'll Be Doing

We seek a hands-on leader to guide the development of our new web application using Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and C#. You will primarily provide technical leadership to a small team of seasoned developers as they transition to web development. This role requires a highly technical leader comfortable managing projects without dedicated DevOps or UI/UX specialists, thriving in a high-ownership environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement full-stack functionality: Blazor UI, ASP.NET Core backend, database integration, and deployment.

• Provide technical direction and hands-on development across the platform lifecycle.

• Lead and ensure adherence to team standards for development controls and processes.

• Guide on API and web-dev best practices, setting positive examples for engineers.

• Establish efficient development workflows, testing strategies, and deployment pipelines.

• Ensure the solution is secure, maintainable, performant, and extensible for production readiness.

• Champion software engineering best practices with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.

• Help maintain internal system documentation by writing and updating procedures as required throughout the SDLC.

Who You Are:

You are a skilled technical leader, passionate about building robust, scalable web applications. While strong technical leadership is paramount, you also possess the crucial soft skills to influence and be a key decision-maker within a well-established team. You will lead by example through hands-on contribution.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven, recent, hands-on development experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and T-SQL.

• Solid understanding of web application architecture, component-driven UI development, and backend integration.

• Experience deploying self-hosted applications, including configuration, infrastructure, and security considerations.

• Ability to provide architectural clarity and technical mentorship for engineers transitioning from desktop to web development.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills, able to set direction and manage priorities effectively.

• Experience in early-stage product teams or with accounting/enterprise back-office systems is a plus.

• Familiarity with Entity Framework Core, SignalR, or relevant .NET ecosystem tools is preferred.

• Exposure to CI/CD, basic infrastructure setup, and cloud/hybrid deployment models, even without dedicated DevOps support, is beneficial.

• Strong UI sensibility, capable of creating user-friendly interfaces without a dedicated design team, is a bonus.

Why Join Us?

This is a significant opportunity to lead the transformation of a key product into a modern, web-based solution. You will play a central role in shaping architecture, mentoring talent, and delivering a system critical for the business's long-term success.

Join a "Great Place to Work UK" certified company, offering extensive benefits and a supportive environment. Based at our East Croydon / Hybrid office, reporting directly to the Head of Software Development, you will find clear career progression as our business expands its software expertise across operating companies.

If you are a highly technical engineering leader who thrives in small teams, embraces varied responsibilities, and delivers quality software under real-world constraints, we encourage you to apply.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

I am looking for an Engineering Manager for a market leading client in Maidenhead. They work the hybrid model, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. Looking for candidates with strong experience in leading SW Development teams.

As an engineering leader, you will lead Agile engineering resources & provide guidance from inception through release of major & point product releases, including ongoing maintenance.  You will be working closely with your product managers, product owners, engineering leaders, your team and other stakeholders. You will be leading developers, quality engineers and partnering with CloudOps, TechOps, UX Design other cross-functional functional groups to evolve our solutions while continuing to improve your teams’ adoption of SDLC processes, CI/CD integration, code quality & automation test coverage.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead an organization of 4-10 development & test engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality deliverables
li>Manage team leads, direct reports or a mix of both
• Manage several deliverables for a product line on time, on scope and on quality
• Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
• Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
• Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
• Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
• Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
• Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
• Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
• Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading software engineers for product development
• Experience managing capitalized software processes
• Preferred: experience with managing teams' operational health by analyzing product teams' work distribution CapEx, Opex, Maintenance, Billable and OH
• Preferred: experience managing the organizational structure of teams as well as headcount & non-headcount budgets
• 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
• Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
• Preferred: experience using AWS cloud solutions, ideally including migration from other hosting services
• Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
• Proficient in API design, development & production operation
• Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
• Working experience with production Microsoft SQL Server schema design, queries & administration
• Preferred: working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions

Our client provides innovative fully managed solutions within the automotive fleet management sector. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and oversee their software development function, with a strong focus on ERP and CRM platforms. This role will be responsible for planning, scheduling, and managing the workloads of the development team, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and oversee software development projects, ensuring delivery against project timelines, budgets, and scope.
li>Manage, coach, and mentor a team of software developers, facilitating their professional growth and performance.
• Oversee sprint planning, resource allocation, and workload management among engineers.
• Collaborate closely with business analysts, project managers, infrastructure teams, and other key stakeholders to define requirements and align on project objectives.
• Ensure all software solutions meet agreed-upon standards for quality, performance, and security through robust quality assurance processes.
• Lead process improvements, championing best practices and rigour in software development, agile methodologies, and documentation.
• Oversee the release management process—evaluating change requests, planning, deployment, and post-release reviews.
< i>Contribute to and support technical decision-making, providing guidance and architectural input where needed, utilise feedback loops where applicable to aid improvements for future sprints.
• Hire, onboard, and train new engineering talent as required, and participate in performance reviews, provide guidance, support, and feedback to team members which enhance their skills and performance.
• Report on progress, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, and help align technical delivery with business strategy.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, legal, and security guidelines relevant to ERP/CRM solutions as appropriate.

Key Skills and Necessary Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in a Software Development role or relevant background.
< i>Strong leadership and team motivation skills, with a track record of building, nurturing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate technical vision, sprint plans, progress, and obstacles to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Accountability-focused: able to set clear objectives, hold teams and individuals to account, and drive outcomes consistently.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to assess complex, ambiguous problems and guide teams to effective, innovative solutions.
• Adaptability and flexibility, willing to pivot in response to changing project requirements or business priorities while maintaining delivery focus.
• Proficient in risk management: skilled at identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across technical, resource, and delivery aspects.
• Experienced in resource and budget management, optimising engineering resources, controlling costs, and ensuring efficient use of team capabilities.
• Technical competence and hands-on knowledge of ERP/CRM platforms and associated integration technologies.
• Familiarity with modern software engineering practices, Agile methodologies, and continuous delivery processes.
• Skilled with digital project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar systems.
• Previous experience of engineering and implementing effective code-based solutions.
• Proficiency in business-critical IT tools (Power BI, Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, web tools) to support daily operations and reporting.
• High integrity, resilience, and a continuous improvement mentality, always looking for ways to enhance team capability and delivery quality

This is a pivotal role within this business at a time when they are going through a period of major growth and expansion to enable them to be no1 in their field. A great time to join an innovative company.

I am looking for an Engineering Manager for a market leading client in Maidenhead. They work the hybrid model, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. Looking for candidates with strong experience in leading SW Development teams.

As an engineering leader, you will lead Agile engineering resources & provide guidance from inception through release of major & point product releases, including ongoing maintenance.  You will be working closely with your product managers, product owners, engineering leaders, your team and other stakeholders. You will be leading developers, quality engineers and partnering with CloudOps, TechOps, UX Design other cross-functional functional groups to evolve our solutions while continuing to improve your teams’ adoption of SDLC processes, CI/CD integration, code quality & automation test coverage.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead an organization of 4-10 development & test engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality deliverables
li>Manage team leads, direct reports or a mix of both
• Manage several deliverables for a product line on time, on scope and on quality
• Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
• Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
• Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
• Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
• Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
• Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
• Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
• Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading software engineers for product development
• Experience managing capitalized software processes
• Preferred: experience with managing teams' operational health by analyzing product teams' work distribution CapEx, Opex, Maintenance, Billable and OH
• Preferred: experience managing the organizational structure of teams as well as headcount & non-headcount budgets
• 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
• Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
• Preferred: experience using AWS cloud solutions, ideally including migration from other hosting services
• Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
• Proficient in API design, development & production operation
• Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
• Working experience with production Microsoft SQL Server schema design, queries & administration
• Preferred: working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions