Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Leads an engineering support team, providing technical guidance on complex engineering issues and ensuring high-quality project execution. Collaborates cross-functionally on project plans, maintains quality and regulatory compliance, and drives process improvements. Responsibilities also include people leadership, recruiting, employee development, retention, engagement, and fostering an inclusive team culture.

Leads HPE’s Canadian Presales Engineering organization, setting strategy, managing budgets and resources, developing technical sales leaders, and driving revenue growth. Builds executive customer and partner relationships, aligns presales teams with sales and product organizations, influences product direction, and ensures operational excellence across Canada and global counterparts. The role requires strong business acumen, enterprise technology expertise, cross-functional leadership, and travel across Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable internal applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, and automated employee workflows. Owns solutions from architecture through deployment and support while improving reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability. Collaborates across engineering, product, design, security, and People Technology teams; provides technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and roadmap contributions. The role also explores AI-powered capabilities to improve employee workflows and engineering productivity.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. The role drives technical direction across entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. Responsibilities include hands-on distributed systems engineering, migrations, performance and reliability improvements, cross-team influence, AI-assisted engineering adoption, and mentoring senior technical staff.

Leads and grows an engineering team building financial and supply chain platforms, including agentic workflow automation, reporting, forecasting, tax, compliance, and operational systems. Sets technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and delivery practices while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations. Ensures reliability, security, scalability, testing, observability, and operational excellence, while developing engineers, future leaders, and a healthy engineering culture.

Partners with senior Engineering leaders to shape people strategy, organization design, job architecture, talent processes, leadership effectiveness, and culture. Advises on global teams, change management, calibrations, career paths, and organizational transformations. Uses data and feedback to improve engagement and performance, collaborates with People and Talent teams, and supports Engineering offsites and leadership forums across globally distributed teams.

Leads Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering teams, developing engineers and establishing a shared operating model. Translates business and product priorities into engineering plans across logged-out web, experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution, measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection. Partners with Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, privacy-aware systems while balancing customer needs, quality, speed, and risk.

Manage the AMER Support Engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, performance development, and technical growth. Lead customer support quality, process improvement, automation, AI adoption, and cross-functional collaboration. Build scalable workflows, promote team ownership and psychological safety, and ensure Support Engineers resolve complex technical issues throughout the support lifecycle. Partner with product and development teams to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

Leads GitLab’s Dedicated Infrastructure team, combining technical leadership and people management. Responsibilities include guiding architecture, maintaining high availability and security, automating provisioning and operations, improving self-service platforms, managing incidents, recruiting and developing team members, using AI to improve productivity, and prioritizing work through data and risk analysis. The role requires expertise in distributed services, fleet management, Terraform, AWS, high-availability operations, remote team leadership, and complex project delivery.

Leads the development, architecture, integration, testing, validation, and documentation of vehicle-mounted communications systems. Conducts technical trade studies, manages requirements and configuration, coordinates laboratory and test resources, supports vehicle inspections and field modifications, and ensures compliance with military, quality, and EMI/EMC standards. Provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with customers, OEMs, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Lead the development, integration, testing, and validation of vehicle-level communications systems for ground combat vehicles and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include systems architecture, requirements management, trade studies, technical documentation, EMI/EMC compliance, lab and prototype vehicle integration, troubleshooting, customer engagement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role also supports inspections, retrofits, field modifications, configuration management, and adherence to defense and quality standards.

Plans, designs, and obtains approvals for municipal infrastructure projects, including sewers, stormwater systems, watermains, roads, grading, and parking lots. Prepares tender and construction documents, conducts construction inspection, and administers contracts. Provides technical direction, mentors junior staff, coordinates support teams, contributes to business development, and manages project delivery while ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, guidelines, and standards.

Leads the municipal engineering group with responsibility for business development, client relationships, proposal development, and delivery of municipal infrastructure projects. Manages project budgets, schedules, quality, stakeholders, and regulatory coordination while mentoring Project Managers and technical staff. The role requires Ontario P.Eng. registration, at least 10 years of engineering experience, strong municipal design and project management expertise, leadership ability, business acumen, communication skills, knowledge of relevant standards, and a valid driver’s license.

Senior Hydrogeologist responsible for planning and supervising hydrogeological field programs, conducting groundwater and surface-water assessments, analyzing environmental data, developing conceptual groundwater models, and preparing technical reports and permitting documentation. The role supports aggregate, municipal, land development, wastewater, and water-supply projects across Ontario. Responsibilities also include regulatory compliance, safety planning, client and contractor coordination, and collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Leads end-to-end cloud solution architecture and implementation, primarily on Azure with some AWS. Translates business and engineering requirements into secure, scalable designs, reusable patterns, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and production-ready services. Provides technical assurance across identity, networking, security, monitoring, compliance, governance, resilience, and cost optimization. Advises stakeholders, guides engineering teams, develops architecture documentation and roadmaps, and advances automation, FinOps, AI, and operational excellence for Canadian operations.

Leads enterprise cloud solution architecture and implementation, primarily on Azure with some AWS. Designs secure, scalable, compliant, and cost-effective solutions; develops architecture documentation, integration patterns, IaC, and CI/CD standards; validates implementations; and guides security, governance, resilience, automation, FinOps, and operational readiness. Partners with business, engineering, security, data, and architecture teams while advising on cloud strategy, roadmaps, emerging AI capabilities, and reusable technology patterns.

Develop system requirements, interface specifications, operational models, and end-to-end information flows for a military system-of-systems program. Elicit requirements from Department of National Defence stakeholders, create MBSE diagrams and operational views, manage requirements traceability, support verification and validation, write test cases, and produce VCRMs. Present updates and conduct reviews with internal and external stakeholders while contributing to networking, security, and technical analysis activities.

Develop operational and system requirements for a Canadian Armed Forces system-of-systems program. Responsibilities include creating MBSE diagrams and operational views, defining interfaces and information flows, maintaining requirements traceability, supporting verification and validation, writing test cases, producing VCRMs, and presenting technical updates to government and internal stakeholders.

Lead Keet’s API and frontend engineering teams, owning technical design, API quality, performance, reliability, and delivery standards. Partner with product managers to shape scoped, buildable features and guide product decisions for a distributed, local-first messaging and calling application. Mentor engineering leads, establish team clarity and operating systems, coordinate with deep technology teams, and contribute hands-on when needed.

Leads Systems Engineering as the organizational discipline head and resource manager. Oversees engineering teams, staffing, budgets, processes, tooling, governance, bids, projects, and product support across the lifecycle. Develops MBSE capabilities, requirements management, technical performance measures, subcontractor activities, metrics, and engineering best practices. Coaches and mentors staff while supporting recruitment, performance management, and succession planning. Requires extensive Systems Engineering management experience, engineering qualifications, occasional travel, and eligibility for Canadian NATO Secret clearance and controlled-information access.

Supports cloud engineering by building and managing secure, reliable automation and Infrastructure as Code. Responsibilities include applying software engineering principles, developing self-healing solutions, participating in code and design reviews, and learning DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure practices.

Develop system requirements, architecture models, interfaces, information flows, and traceability for a Canadian Armed Forces C5ISR-T headquarters system. Apply MBSE techniques using DNDAF and UAF, support verification and validation activities, review test artifacts, produce traceability matrices, and present progress to stakeholders. The role also involves delivering technical work products, meeting program milestones, and collaborating with Department of National Defence customers and internal teams.

Build and operate full-stack compliance platforms for transaction search, entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow automation. Responsibilities include designing microservices and event-driven systems, writing tested code, improving sensitive financial data quality, building self-service tools and high-volume pipelines, partnering with Compliance and Risk teams, and participating in on-call operations. The role also involves using AI-powered development tools, reviewing code, and supporting engineering standards.

Leads human factors engineering activities across defence programs, including task and workload analyses, usability assessments, requirements development, risk mitigation, design reviews, and verification support. Maintains traceability using requirements and product lifecycle management tools, applies HFE and ergonomics standards, presents findings to stakeholders, manages delivery priorities, and mentors junior practitioners.

Lead human factors engineering activities across defense programs, including task and workload analysis, usability assessments, requirements development, risk mitigation, standards compliance, and design validation. Serve as a technical authority, collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, maintain requirements traceability, lead reviews and workshops, present findings to stakeholders, manage delivery risks, and mentor junior practitioners.