Top Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Three-year graduate engineering programme focused on designing and developing electronic engineering solutions for Thales products and customers. Participants receive structured training, work with experienced engineers, develop technical and transversal skills, and may rotate across business units or complete a partner secondment. The role is based in Belfast and requires UK work authorization and successful completion of BPSS and Security Clearance checks.

Three-year accredited graduate programme developing mechanical engineering skills through engineering design and development projects. Graduates will work with experienced engineers on new and existing products, complete structured training, build professional networks, and may rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment in Year 3. The role is based in Belfast and requires UK right to work and successful completion of BPSS and SC security checks.

Entry-level three-year software engineering graduate programme involving structured training, engineering development, product and solution design, and work across new and existing customer programmes. Candidates may rotate across business units or complete an external secondment. The role requires a relevant computer or software engineering degree, UK work authorization, and successful completion of BPSS and SC security checks.

Four-year degree apprenticeship developing skills as an Integrated Logistics Support Engineer while studying for a BEng in Mechatronic Engineering. Responsibilities include supporting systems requirements and design, project reviews, testing and validation, engineering investigations, ILS planning, supportability analysis, technical documentation, data management, spare-parts analysis, training materials, maintenance strategies, and stakeholder engagement. The role is based in Belfast with university study and practical engineering work at Thales.

Three-year graduate systems engineering programme developing engineering solutions for defence, aerospace, space, and digital security products. Participants receive structured training, work with experienced engineers, contribute to new and existing products, and may rotate across business units or complete an external secondment in Year 3. The role requires a STEM degree, permanent UK work rights, and successful completion of BPSS and SC security checks.

Three-year graduate engineering programme focused on developing industrial process engineering skills through supported work on new and existing products. Participants follow accredited technical and transversal learning pathways, may rotate across business units or complete a secondment, and build engineering competencies and professional networks. The role is based in Belfast and requires UK right to work plus successful BPSS and SC security checks.

Three-year Level 5 higher apprenticeship combining college study at South Eastern Regional College with practical engineering rotations at Thales. The apprentice will develop skills across mechanical engineering, electronics, software, hardware, and systems, progressing toward mechatronic engineering specialization. Responsibilities include learning engineering design and problem-solving, supporting solutions within cost, quality, and manufacturing constraints, collaborating across teams, and completing a Foundation Engineering Degree with potential progression to a BEng.

A four-year Level 6 apprenticeship combining university study at Ulster University with practical engineering experience at Thales. The apprentice will develop mechatronics skills across mechanical engineering, electronics, software, hardware, and systems engineering through rotations, project work, and workplace learning. The program leads to a BEng in Mechatronic Engineering and a permanent role, with training focused on engineering design, problem-solving, manufacturability, quality, cost, teamwork, and technical delivery.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

AECOM is recruiting geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and tunnel engineers at all levels across the UK. Successful candidates will deliver ground engineering and tunnelling projects from concept through operation, applying relevant design codes, technical standards, and innovative methods. Responsibilities may include technical delivery, leadership, mentoring, and collaboration on infrastructure projects across rail, highways, energy, water, nuclear, and other sectors. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, project experience, willingness to travel throughout the UK, and a clean driving licence.

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog for secure hardware engineering environments. Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature priorities; validates releases; gathers user feedback; and leads application evolution, migration, consolidation, and legacy-tool retirement. Acts as technical authority and architect while coordinating hardware engineers, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and leadership. The role requires practical hardware engineering experience and knowledge of engineering development environments, with responsibility for aligning tools to broader Thales roadmaps.

Engineering apprentice supporting highway and street design projects across concept, modelling, detailed design, and implementation. Responsibilities include developing technical solutions, attending site visits and project meetings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and learning engineering software and BIM processes. Projects may involve junctions, cycle lanes, bus priority, greenways, streetscapes, feasibility studies, and road safety assessments. The role provides structured training and mentoring toward a career in traffic and civil engineering.

Lead Engineer role within Westpac’s Product Engineering team supporting the Business Specialist Lending area. The provided description contains organizational information and application details but does not specify responsibilities, technologies, qualifications, compensation, travel, or clearance requirements.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Leads and develops a global security engineering team protecting cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure. Sets security architecture and threat-modeling strategy, drives policy-as-code and shift-left automation, governs cloud and container hardening, oversees vulnerability and software supply-chain management, and partners on detection and incident response. Collaborates with Engineering, DevOps, and Product leadership to embed secure-by-design practices while supporting product delivery.

Leads the regional Engineering team through operational leadership, performance improvement, strategic planning, business growth, client engagement, value proposition development, talent management, budgeting, and forecasting. The role develops high-performing teams, wins new client work, supports specialty strategy, and deputizes for the Head of Engineering.

Examiners mark external Level 1/2 Technical Award in Engineering assessments during the summer 2027 marking window. They apply mark schemes consistently, attend remote standardisation meetings, report malpractice or safeguarding concerns, maintain confidentiality, and submit results accurately under tight deadlines. Candidates need relevant Level 3+ qualifications and recent teaching, assessment, training, or occupational engineering experience.

Moderates engineering qualification assessments by reviewing centre-marked work, applying quality assurance standards, producing reports, managing sampling activities, attending standardisation meetings, and providing constructive feedback. The role requires engineering or design technology expertise, teaching or assessment experience, strong knowledge of assessment processes, and the ability to work independently during the April–August 2027 moderation period.

Leads technical development of AECOM’s Ground Engineering team, overseeing geotechnical data, analyses, design verification, project delivery, client advisory, business development, and multidisciplinary coordination. Provides technical leadership, manages schedules and budgets, builds client relationships, supports tenders, and mentors junior engineers. The role requires chartered status, strong knowledge of UK ground conditions and investigation practices, geotechnical design standards, and stakeholder-management capability.

Leads SRE and LiveOps teams in improving reliability, performance, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence for cloud-native SaaS products. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, including architecture reviews, debugging production systems, automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, SLOs, technical debt prioritization, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Platform, Security, Product, Support, and Operations teams.

Leads centralized L3 production support across six products, serving as the final escalation point for technical issues and incidents. Owns triage, SLAs, diagnostics, reporting, automation, and root-cause improvement. Uses data and AI tooling to reduce recurring issues and ticket volumes, partners with engineering and client success teams, and manages a small support team while fostering continuous improvement and a blameless culture.

Leads the M&S Cloud Platform engineering team building AI engineering platforms, reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and developer self-service capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, platform ownership, architecture, DevOps, reliability, vendor management, recruitment, talent development, and line management of senior engineers. The role contributes code while driving engineering excellence, operational reliability, strategic alignment, and improved developer experience across more than 200 engineers and 30 applications.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.