Top Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Twelve-month placement supporting AI tooling integration and reliability engineering for high-availability financial systems. Responsibilities include performance testing, monitoring, automation, system architecture collaboration, resilience requirements, clean coding, and AI-assisted workflow improvements. Candidates should be computer science undergraduates with programming proficiency and foundational knowledge of reliability, monitoring, or AI/ML concepts. The role is based in Belfast with office attendance two or three days weekly.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

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.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Build and maintain payments infrastructure, including usage tracking, pricing, billing, payment providers, and stream-processing services. Collaborate with Finance, Tax, Growth, Sales, and engineering teams to support compliance, reporting, experiments, and customer payments. Plan migrations, debug complex production billing issues, and safely evolve live systems handling money. Requires Python expertise, backend development experience, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and strong problem-solving ability.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Leads one engineering team while co-owning the product roadmap with Product. Responsible for delivery predictability, technical quality, architecture, SLOs, operational health, hiring, budgeting, and engineer development. The role remains hands-on through code reading, pull-request reviews, pairing, and technical trade-off decisions. It also drives AI tooling adoption and ensures the team ships reliably while maintaining strong engineering growth and product alignment.

Leads software engineering teams and technical projects for a mission-critical emergency dispatch platform. Provides architecture direction, conducts code reviews, guides C# backend, database, and web development, and oversees testing and delivery. Manages Scrum and Agile execution, mentors teams on AI development tools, fosters collaboration and continuous learning, and partners with senior leaders and external stakeholders. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK and Poland offices and requires security clearance eligibility.

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.

Design and validate electrical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create schematics, PCB layouts, circuit designs, calculations, simulations, technical documentation, and reproducible reference solutions. Review AI-generated engineering work for accuracy, identify design faults and inconsistencies, and establish objective evaluation criteria. The role requires practical expertise in circuit theory, electronics development, PCB design, simulation tools, and electrical systems, along with strong technical communication skills.

Design and validate realistic mechanical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create and review CAD models, assemblies, technical drawings, specifications, calculations, and simulation outputs. Assess mechanical designs, materials, tolerances, manufacturing constraints, and engineering feasibility. Develop traceable reference solutions, identify errors and failure risks, review AI-generated technical work, and establish objective evaluation criteria.

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.

Owns the technical vision and roadmap for organization-wide CI/CD and release infrastructure. Identifies and remediates performance bottlenecks and supply-chain security risks, designs scalable release gates, directs engineers through complex multi-quarter projects, and leads incident response. The role requires hands-on debugging across the pipeline stack, cross-organizational influence, technical communication, mentorship, code and design reviews, and setting engineering standards.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.