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Overview

Find your next career move with top Technical Architect jobs in Glasgow. Whether you’re an experienced solutions designer or an enterprise architect, explore the latest opportunities in Glasgow’s thriving tech scene. Start applying today to join innovative companies seeking skilled Technical Architects to drive their IT strategy and architecture forward.

Principal Product Safety Engineer

Job Title: Principal Product Safety Engineer

Location: Frimley, Weymouth, Bristol, Portsmouth, Barrow-in-Furness, Devonport, Plymouth or Brough, dependant on role and your personal circumstances. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

Providing advice on product safety matters to project and engineering managers delivering the programmes and ensuring the safety considerations (DEF STAN 0055/0056) are correctly considered and implemented
Engaging with third parties, to review and gather supporting safety case evidence
Developing safety arguments, both physical and functional, using appropriate safety analysis methods e.g. (FHA/STPA/FMEA/FTA) producing and updating safety case and safety management documentation using appropriate regulations and standards
Line managing other safety practitioners
Applying ALARP principles

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Safety engineering processes, practices and tools
Clear understanding of safety engineering & assurance principals
Experience and qualified engineers from other disciplines who display the correct behaviours and have an understanding of safety engineering, will actively be considered for this role

Desirable:

Good communication skills and ability to interact and manage stakeholders

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Combat Systems Safety Team

Working closely with several engineers and technical specialists on both In-Service and In-Build Combat Systems, you will have the opportunity to work on developing safety arguments. This will include developing an understanding of new technologies and sensor systems used to support the safety arguments. We welcome people with experience of the military, defence and maritime industries, who can use their knowledge and learning to help us ensure that we provide the best products into submarines. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 5th January 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in processing your application. Your application is important to us and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

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Structural Engineer

CONTRACT SCOTLAND LIMITED

An established and growing structural engineering consultancy in Glasgow is seeking a Structural Design Engineer to join their team. This opportunity is ideal for an engineer with approximately 2–5 years’ experience and a solid background in structural design.

The role will involve working on a varied portfolio of projects including residential developments, new-build schools, and school refurbishment schemes. Candidates from all structural backgrounds are encouraged to apply, as the consultancy values diverse experience and technical development. You will be involved in the design and delivery of projects from early concept through to completion, producing calculations, drawings, and technical reports while working closely with senior engineers and multidisciplinary teams.

Applicants should hold a degree in Structural Engineering and have experience working within a UK structural engineering environment. A good working knowledge of relevant design codes and structural software is required, along with strong communication skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

The company is offering a competitive salary in the region of £30,000–£35,000 depending on experience, along with full support towards Chartership through ICE or IStructE. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated engineer looking to progress their career within a supportive consultancy that actively invests in professional development.

Legal Information:
We act as an employment agency for permanent work and as an employment business for temporary work.

For roles in the UK, applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

We value diversity and promote 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 areas of society and can discuss any reasonable adjustments to support your application.

Electrical Design Engineer Building Services

Morgan Hunt Recruitment

CompanyAn extremely successful premium brand in the industry, operating as an international, multidisciplinary engineering consultancy. This provides the chance to work on innovative and exciting medium-large scale developments across a variety of private and public sector buildings, often partnered with top tier architects and clients. The business have an extremely healthy existing and pipelined workload, comprising of new-build, refurb, Passivhaus, Enerphit and BIM jobs. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established brand, where candidate feedback in the market has been very positive, gaining access to stand-out projects, whilst receiving an industry leading benefits package. A very progressive, diverse and flexible workplace with a large MEP team and superb modern office. Role

Ensuring an understanding of project briefs. Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems .
Design and specification of all Electrical Building Services systems - power, earthing, lighting, life safety, telecoms, security, access control, lifts, lightning protection etc.
Carry out (and managing of others), in the production of detailed calculations using industry standard software tools including Excel, dialux, Amtech, in-house developed tools, etc.
Representing the organisation at meetings with clients and contractors.
Site surveys, inspections and monitoring of site works.
Report and technical note writing.
Maintaining complete records and archives to company standards.
Adherence to all quality, environmental and governance processes.

Qualifications/Experience

Degree qualified or equivalent qualification in Building Services Engineering / Electrical Engineering
Minimum 2-3 years experience working in a design consultancy or a similar environment.
Knowledge of electrical design within the built environment.
Good report writing skills, experience of making presentations to and attending meetings with clients.
Detailed knowledge of appropriate technical standards, able to take charge of project deliverables, make decisions, act on own initiative.
Good level of computer literacy in a range of digital tools such as CAD, Amtech, Dialux/Relux

Benefits

28 days annual leave + public holidays
Company car or cash allowance
Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
Hybrid working
Flexible working hours
Life assurance scheme
Discount scheme (including gym membership, mobile phones etc)
Family friendly policies
Employee assistance
Professional Development

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual’s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Spotlight

Senior Technical Architect

Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?

Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a supportive, collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on projects to open new opportunities?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Technical Architect you’ll contribute to software development projects, ensuring that the applications are efficient, performant and user-friendly. You’ll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefitting from opportunities to grow your career.

The role

You’ll use your experience of defining and implementing software architectures using patterns and best-practice approaches to define detailed designs that form part of large enterprise-scale applications to meet our clients’ business outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with colleagues and take your solutions through architecture governance and generally contribute to the evolution of the assurance processes.

You’ll use your expertise to confidently lead and guide delivery teams to bring your design to life.

Requirements

As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.

Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

Essential experience

You don’t need to have had the job title of technical architect before – but we will want you to demonstrate experience of technical architecture.

In your CV and at interview, we’ll ask you to show how you:

• develop and implement technical designs for modern enterprise-scale applications, utilising or defining effective patterns and technologies

• show ownership of designs and their evolution and transition into service

• have an excellent working knowledge of software development, programming languages, modelling languages and methodologies and know how to apply them

• identify and adhere to architecture quality attributes and/or non-functional requirements

• evaluate and introduce innovative new patterns, approaches and technologies into project teams

• can break down architectures into implemented components, utilising effective patterns and technologies that deliver business outcomes and address stakeholder needs

As well as technical architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.

If selected for interview, we’ll ask you to show that you:

• build strong relationships with both business and technical stakeholders to provide technical direction and build consensus for your technical designs

• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems

• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams

• coach and mentor fellow team members

• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application

At the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in your first interview, we’ll ask you back to develop and present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:

• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)

• Experience of delivering digital services and the GDS toolkit for the UK Government would be useful for many of our projects. It will be valuable (and essential for some contractor roles) if you are familiar with these activities and concepts:

o the Service Manual

o Agile delivery phases and

o Service Assessments

• A solid understanding of the benefit of user-centred design and understanding accessibility standards

• Good understanding of DevOps and in-life service management

If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £70,001-£80,000 per annum

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com

Spotlight

Senior Solutions Architect

Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?

Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a supportive, collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on projects to open new opportunities?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Solution Architect, you’ll design strong but adaptable foundations for the people who use them – enabling robust, scalable and sustainable solutions. You’ll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefitting from opportunities to grow your career.

The role

You’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.

You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.

You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.

Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.

Essential experience

We’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.

In your CV and interview, please show how you have:

• built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views.

• a strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles.

• enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively.

• worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps.

• a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.

As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.

In the interview, please show how you:

• demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients

• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems

• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams

• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application

In the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll ask you back to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:

• Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)

If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview.

If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum

What we offer

Where you’ll work

We include you

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com

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Frequently asked questions

Glasgow offers a wide range of Technical Architect roles across various industries including finance, technology, healthcare, and consulting. Positions may focus on software architecture, cloud solutions, infrastructure design, and enterprise architecture.Key skills often sought include proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), strong knowledge of software development methodologies, experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, excellent communication, and leadership abilities.You can search for Technical Architect jobs in Glasgow on Haystack by using the search bar and filters. Once you find a suitable role, click on it to view details and submit your application directly through our platform.Yes, many employers in Glasgow offer flexible working arrangements including fully remote or hybrid Technical Architect roles. You can filter job listings to show remote-friendly positions on Haystack.Salaries for Technical Architects in Glasgow typically range from £60,000 to £90,000 per year, depending on experience, industry, and company size. Senior roles or those with specialized expertise may offer higher compensation.