Technical Lead - Hybrid Remote UK

From revolutionising customer billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our technologies are empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers and unlocking the benefits of renewable energy and smart devices to help decarbonise the grid.

We are an agile scale up energy tech business, but we’re also backed by the resources of the UK’s largest independent energy supplier, OVO Energy. (The best of both worlds). You would be working to grow the existing Kaluza platform, which supports our UK energy supply business. This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind, as the first real-time energy system created using functional programming and event sourcing. We are looking to transform to a multi-tenant, international ready model to help the business take on new challenges and external customers.

Where in the role of Kaluza will I be working?

You would be joining the Data area within Technology - reporting to the data director - although working with all the tech teams in Kaluza. Your mission is to create an exceptional experience for our consumer’s use of our data - both internal & external. This is pivotal to Kaluza's strategy of providing the lowest cost to serve platform in the global energy market.

You will be continually pushing the boundaries of the energy industry and technology in enabling energy retailers to provide award-winning customer service.

Here’s some examples of the type of thing you may work on:

• Working with domain champions in each squad to ensure coherent advancementof our domain model
• Living & breathing the data we have and the data we’re going to be getting
• Ensuring data quality standards across the domain model including adherence to our data-as-a-product approach

Our Retail Energy Platform is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers. This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind, as the first real-time energy system created using functional programming and event sourcing. We are looking to transform to a multi-tenant, international ready model to help the business take on new challenges and external customers.

Is this the job for me?

It could be if

• You have ~8+ years of energy experience
• You’ve done domain modelling well and seen how it can be improved
• You have experience of domain driven design thinking
• You’re driven by innovative thinking and are keen to envisage the future of energy and use that to drive our domain model
• You are genuinely excited about how coherent data will positively impact millions of end users and also our environment
• You have experience working with high performing engineering teams
• You use your influence and stakeholder management skills to have wide-reaching impact
• You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge

Key responsibilities include:

• Domain model owner: Ultimately accountable for our domain model and the plans associated with implementing it.
• Design authority: be able to make technical decisions as to how the product should be best formed
• Getting your hands dirty: accessing Kafka, Cloud data-stores
• Improve data quality: drive a respect for data quality that ensures the analysis can be robust
• Help development of the Kaluza platform for international markets
• Enabling a multi-tenant solution across groups of teams
• Contributing to platform-wide decisions in terms of our domain boundaries and architecture
• Being a part of the Kaluza-wide technology leadership team

From us you’ll get*

• 4% of your salary to spend on flexible lifestyle benefits
• 5% matched employer contribution to your pension
• 25 days holiday + 1 for your birthday
• And many more...

(*) Please note that certain benefits kick-in once you have passed probation which can be up to 6 months after your start date.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure... we'd love to hear from you.

Send your resume to kaluza@scalajobs.com