Engineering Director

NQM; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

Professional development support

Job summary

NquiringMinds in Southampton is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the engineering organisation behind trusted data, AI and cyber security products. You will own technical strategy, delivery quality and team growth, working with the CTO and product leadership to ship dependable software.

Based in Southampton, this senior role requires hands-on leadership, secure development practices, and the ability to translate customer needs into delivery plans while balancing feature work with platform

Job description

Lead engineering at NquiringMinds, directing the teams that build our trusted data, AI and cyber security products. You'll own the product roadmap's technical delivery — from secure data platforms to applied machine learning — and grow an engineering organisation built for commercial scale.

Southampton, UK

Full-time

Posted on Jul 17, 2026

About the Role

NquiringMinds builds trusted data and AI products used in some of the most demanding environments: cyber security, defence, healthcare analytics and local-government data platforms. As Engineering Director you will lead the engineering organisation behind those products — owning technical strategy, delivery quality and the growth of the team, and working alongside the CTO and product leadership to ship dependable, commercially successful software.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow the engineering team across the product portfolio
• Own technical delivery: architecture, quality, security and timelines across concurrent product streams
• Set engineering standards and practices — secure development, CI/CD, testing and documentation
• Drive the product roadmap with product management, balancing new features, platform investment and customer deliveries
• Work with commercial leadership to translate customer requirements into delivery plans
• Hire, mentor and develop engineers, building clear progression within the team
• Stay hands-on enough to review designs and unblock the hard problems

Why NquiringMinds?

• Work on meaningful problems: trusted AI, secure data sharing and cyber security with real-world deployments
• Senior leadership role with genuine ownership of technical direction
• Southampton base with a collaborative, engineering-led culture
• Competitive package and support for professional development