Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

You will lead engineers to meet quarterly goals, support product development, solve complex issues, and foster talent development in your team.

Leads the strategy, security, governance, operations, reliability, and financial management of the company’s cloud platform and shared engineering services. Builds and manages cloud and platform engineering teams, drives AWS and private-cloud capabilities, supports compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, oversees FinOps and vendor relationships, enables AI adoption, and improves developer experience through scalable self-service tooling and operational excellence.

Leads the Satellite Operations Engineering team responsible for the health, safety, positioning, and operational performance of Telesat’s GEO satellite fleet. Manages personnel, duty assignments, procedures, training, anomaly response, maneuver planning, spacecraft resource optimization, and operational improvements. Ensures 24/7 fleet availability, supports customer and business requirements, oversees technical studies, and coordinates internal and external engineering expertise.

Lead and grow multiple software engineering teams to deliver Financial Management product outcomes. Set technical direction, prioritize architecture, reduce tech debt, improve delivery metrics (cycle time, MTTR, predictability), embed shift-left testing and observability, drive incident response and RCAs, and apply AI/automation to increase velocity and quality.

Join ENTRUST's Power Generation group as a Sr. Consulting Engineer focusing on steam turbines, providing expertise in engineering and consulting projects. Responsibilities include interpreting project objectives, preparing for client meetings, and assisting in business development, with minimal travel required.

Develop, optimize, test, and verify FPGA-based solutions using Vivado, VHDL, and HLS. Integrate FPGA designs with hardware and software systems, implement video interfaces and processing, maintain reusable IP cores, troubleshoot issues in laboratory and field environments, and contribute to architecture, proposals, estimates, and technical documentation.

Develop, optimize, test, and verify FPGA-based solutions using Vivado, VHDL, and HLS. Implement video interfaces and processing, maintain reusable IP cores, integrate FPGA designs with hardware and software systems, troubleshoot issues in lab and field environments, and contribute to architecture, proposals, estimates, and technical documentation.

Leads multidisciplinary software and systems engineering teams supporting international air programs. Oversees requirements delivery, engineering execution, schedule and cost alignment, complex dependencies, compliance, contract closure, customer commitments, and engineering trade-offs. Partners with program management to resolve issues and achieve goals, while guiding development, testing, deployment, and certification of aircraft systems and airborne products. Some travel is required.

Leads multidisciplinary software and systems engineering teams supporting international air programs. Responsible for customer requirements delivery, engineering execution, schedule and cost alignment, compliance, contract closure, complex dependencies, technical trade-offs, and issue resolution. Requires experience with integrated aircraft systems, airborne software, aircraft modifications, testing, sell-off, and airworthiness considerations. The role also involves team building, engineering effectiveness monitoring, stakeholder communication, and some travel.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building audit-grade, highly available financial systems. Drive architecture, operational reliability, monitoring, code quality, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver accurate, scalable ledger and accounting functionality.

Manage quality, environmental, health, and safety systems across manufacturing facilities in Ontario and Mexicali. Lead inspectors and quality engineers, maintain ISO certifications, coordinate audits, oversee corrective and preventive actions, address customer complaints, support APQP and PPAP activities, qualify products and processes, conduct risk assessments and incident investigations, ensure regulatory compliance, develop QEHS metrics, and communicate with customers, suppliers, and management.

Lead and grow a Maps & Search engineering team responsible for the home search experience across web and mobile. Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests), improve relevance and latency, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, shape product roadmap, and own delivery, SLOs, and incident response.

Lead architecture and delivery of a composable, API-first Core Commerce Platform powering checkout, payments, OMS, inventory availability, loyalty, and post-order experiences. Drive integration of packaged solutions (SFCC, Fluent Commerce), payments, social and agentic commerce, and AI-native capabilities. Own SLAs, reliability, security (PCI-DSS), roadmap, and engineering standards while building and leading high-performing, on-site platform teams.

The program hires students for various administrative roles, providing hands-on experience in a dynamic environment at the House of Commons.

Leads quality engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences. Designs scalable automation frameworks, develops functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test suites, and integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Validates accessibility, performance, reliability, and cross-device behavior; investigates defects, analyzes quality metrics, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted testing practices.

Design, build, optimize, and support scalable consumer-facing mobile applications across iOS and Android using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Develop native integrations, reusable components, secure architectures, API integrations, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to releases and Agile delivery, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive mobile engineering excellence, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

Designs and implements secure, scalable cloud solutions primarily on Azure and AWS. Responsibilities include creating architectures and technical documentation, automating infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, supporting integrations, identity, networking, monitoring, security, compliance, governance, and cost optimization. The role collaborates with engineering, security, data, architecture, vendors, and business teams to deliver resilient, production-ready services and reusable cloud patterns for Canadian operations.

Designs, implements, automates, documents, and supports secure, scalable cloud solutions across AWS and Azure. Translates business and engineering requirements into architectures, IaC patterns, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and production-ready services. Collaborates with engineering, security, data, architecture, vendors, and business teams while ensuring compliance, governance, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency. Provides technical input for roadmaps and pre-sales and leverages Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Power Platform for workflow automation.

Work with government clients to assess current processes, design future-state processes, recommend solutions, prototype options, estimate costs, document workflows, and use process and organizational modeling tools to eliminate redundancies.

Lead technical direction for a greenfield team building agentic/LLM-backed systems to reduce SDLC friction. Drive discovery through shipping, apply distributed-systems judgment at scale, mentor engineers, own technical hiring and cross-team alignment, and evaluate correctness and safety of agentic workflows.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable shared services.

Lead the technical vision and scaling of Jane’s AWS infrastructure. Design highly available, multi-region systems, operate databases at scale, improve platform reliability, reduce alert noise, strengthen security and compliance, and guide other engineering teams on cloud architecture. Drive ambiguous, cross-team infrastructure initiatives, build consensus, participate in on-call rotations, and help the team use AI tools responsibly.

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 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.

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.