Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

The Head of Engineering, Platform will manage the engineering execution from architecture to delivery, focusing on improving AI workflows and team efficiency, while ensuring quality and reliability.

Provides technical leadership across manufacturing engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and project teams. Leads complex engineering projects, continuous improvement, automation, reliability, equipment and process optimization, and business transformation initiatives. Evaluates risks, troubleshoots technical challenges, supports compliance in regulated environments, influences strategic decisions, and mentors engineering professionals.

Reviews and evaluates engineering, infrastructure, and platform documents and work products for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, consistency, and relevance. Provides structured feedback, identifies errors and gaps, compares technical approaches, and follows defined evaluation frameworks. Requires independent work, strong communication, analytical ability, and professional engineering judgment. The role is fully remote and supports varied technical evaluation projects as an independent contractor.

Leads a mobile engineering team while remaining technically hands-on. Responsibilities include designing scalable iOS and Android platforms, driving modernization and large-scale refactoring, establishing engineering standards, adopting AI-assisted development tools, mentoring engineers, supporting hiring, and partnering with product and technical teams. The manager oversees architecture, Agile delivery, technical documentation, testing, validation, and release readiness for enterprise-grade mobile applications.

Lead and grow the Core Workspaces engineering team, set technical direction, and contribute to architecture and implementation. Build reliable, extensible agentic systems involving agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, integrations, and long-running workflows. Partner with Product and Design to improve developer experiences while coaching engineers, raising technical standards, and optimizing reliability, performance, and operability.

Lead and grow a Data Engineering team to build production data pipelines, medallion datasets, and reusable data products. Drive architecture, engineering standards, design reviews, and cross-functional delivery. Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Platform to enable governed, reliable data foundations for analytics and AI. Mentor engineers and manage multiple concurrent initiatives to deliver predictable outcomes.

Lead technical strategy and solution architecture for Telesat Lightspeed defence opportunities. Drive RFI/RFP responses, CONOPS, white papers, and customer engagements; translate operational requirements into secure, deployable satellite and RF architectures; align Product and Engineering to customer needs; support proposal development, risk mitigation, and post-deployment support while representing Telesat to military and government stakeholders.

The Electronics Engineering Technologist will test and validate embedded firmware on ARM platforms, set up and document peripheral interfaces, and assist with calibration and troubleshooting.

Perform verification testing and qualification of embedded products, debug and enhance hardware, implement test automation, produce documentation, support product releases and manufacturing technical data, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to process and team improvements.

Leads large-scale analytics and data management programs, overseeing scope, timelines, quality, costs, governance, risks, stakeholders, and globally distributed teams. Provides technical delivery oversight for cloud analytics, data engineering, data warehousing, and modern data stacks. Mentors leaders, manages executive relationships, drives continuous improvement, and identifies account-growth opportunities through organic business development, proposals, estimation, and solution shaping.

Own full-cycle recruiting for forward-deployed engineering and leadership roles across the US. Source passive AI and technical talent through LinkedIn, GitHub, communities, referrals, and talent mapping. Build Provectus’s talent community through meetups, workshops, hackathons, university programs, and industry events. Partner with hiring managers and senior leadership on hiring criteria, workforce planning, compensation benchmarking, candidate experience, and offer negotiation.

Build and maintain backend features for Agent Observability across the GitLab monolith and AI gateway. Design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, improve automated tests (RSpec), collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot production issues on Tier 2 on-call, and help shape responsible AI integration and platform architecture.

Leads manufacturing engineering across TAR’s robotics product lines, transitioning from prototype and low-rate builds to reliable higher-volume production. Responsibilities include defining strategy, building the engineering organization, planning capital equipment and capacity, establishing company-wide quality and documentation standards, managing supplier and contract manufacturer strategy, and driving root-cause and continuous-improvement processes. The role advises executives on investment, make-versus-buy, and production decisions and represents manufacturing engineering with external stakeholders.

Own the architecture, implementation, security, compliance, and operation of a sovereign AWS Canada landing zone. Lead multi-account architecture, networking, infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, policy enforcement, and managed-service insourcing. Serve as the AWS technical authority, establish platform standards, support secure data, AI, and application workloads, manage vendors, and mentor the developing in-house cloud team. The role requires expertise in regulated defence environments, AWS at scale, and Canadian security requirements.

Own the architecture, automation, security, compliance, and operation of a sovereign AWS Canada landing zone. Lead the transition from managed services to an in-house operating model, establish platform standards and guardrails, oversee Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, and serve as the organization’s AWS technical authority. Partner with cybersecurity, data, networking, and application teams while mentoring and building the future cloud engineering capability.

Leads the DTC Platform Engineering organization, overseeing cloud foundations, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, integrations, quality engineering, performance, security, developer tooling, and AI-enabled engineering platforms. Defines multi-year platform strategy, infrastructure and security standards, self-service capabilities, and delivery governance. Partners with product engineering, security, finance, and infrastructure teams while building and mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient software delivery.

Lead and grow an AI engineering organization responsible for delivering enterprise-grade AI applications across business functions. Establish architecture, engineering standards, deployment practices, and technical strategy for scalable AI systems. Mentor engineers, oversee cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Partner with product, data science, and business stakeholders while ensuring security, compliance, governance, reliability, and performance across globally distributed teams.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, and automated deployment systems across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role uses Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, system hardening, network and virtualization management, tool integration, automated testing, and evaluating DevOps technologies.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, and automation across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role involves infrastructure as code, system hardening, troubleshooting, networking, virtualization, scripting, automated testing, and evaluating DevOps tools. Candidates collaborate with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle and must be eligible to work in Canada and obtain Canadian government security clearance.

Leads cross-functional supply chain and logistics improvement projects, distribution center automation and process optimization initiatives, and PMO standardization. Manages project scope, plans, budgets, vendors, communications, and global stakeholders. Coaches project leaders, trains teams on project methodologies, and drives operational excellence across 3M Global Logistics.

Lead coordination and operational rhythm for an engineering platform portfolio. Ensure cross-team alignment, manage dependencies and risks, maintain Jira/Confluence tracking, produce executive communications and dashboards, improve documentation and automation, and streamline intake and reporting to accelerate delivery and reduce friction.

Lead and grow Quo’s mobile engineering team across iOS and Android. Responsibilities include hiring, onboarding, people development, technical guidance, cross-functional collaboration, mobile architecture and tooling alignment, feature delivery, and improving reliability and quality. The manager will establish scalable mobile engineering practices while supporting product initiatives involving AI, revenue management, and task management.

Lead quality engineering strategy for web and mobile consumer experiences. Design scalable automation frameworks, establish risk-based testing and governance, build automated web, mobile, API, integration, and end-to-end suites, and embed quality across delivery teams. Drive accessibility, performance, cross-browser and cross-device validation, release readiness, quality metrics, experimentation testing, and continuous improvement while partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, and Architecture.

Leads frontend architecture and engineering for large-scale consumer web applications. Defines standards, reusable patterns, and headless API architectures using ReactJS, TypeScript, Next.js, and GraphQL. Drives performance, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, security, experimentation, design systems, and global scalability through CDN and edge technologies. Partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, influences architecture across teams, and guides technical decisions for reliable, accessible, high-performing digital experiences.

Leads architecture, development, and evolution of large-scale React Native applications across iOS and Android. Defines mobile engineering standards, reusable patterns, security and privacy practices, release processes, accessibility, performance optimization, API and commerce integrations, experimentation, and design systems. Provides technical direction, partners cross-functionally, makes architectural decisions, mentors engineers, and improves delivery through AI-assisted engineering tools.