Head of Quality - London, United Kingdom - Kaluza

Kaluza

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job title:
Head of Quality

Location:
London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lisbon (Including Hybrid)

Part time available:
No

Salary:
£100,000 - £150,000

Kaluza wants to power a world where net-zero is within everyone's reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition.

It's a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza's technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement.

And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?
You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community.

We're a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale.

As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.

To find out more about what it's like to work in our Kaluza Technology Community, check out our Tech Blog here:
As Head of Quality you will be working across all of our technology landscape which includes Energy Retail and Flex

Kaluza's Energy Retail platform:
This is a SaaS technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally.

This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza's customers.

Kaluza's Flex platform:

Designed to be the nervous system connecting energy retailers, grid operators, and consumers, Flex will aid us in creating the distributed, consumer-centric, dynamic energy system of the future.

Bridging the gap between distributed renewable generation and smart devices, it helps consumers shift their energy consumption to times when there's more renewable energy.

This not only saves them money, but enables society as a whole to meet the challenge of decarbonising transport and residential heating/cooling.

We're also supporting this vital shift by building the innovative technology behind unique, market-leading customer propositions like Vehicle to Grid and Drive Anytime Energy Plan with our energy retailer partners.

What will I be doing?

As a senior leader in the Technology department you will be responsible for collaborating across all levels to ensure we build robust, enterprise class software.

You will be equally happy working with colleagues or clients to design and deliver our next generation products to help the world move to a carbon neutral future.

As Head of Quality you will be passionate about ensuring our systems are robust, scalable and work in our clients complex existing estates.

You will manage a team which is responsible for quality across the platforms. Our teams are responsible for the quality of their output but the head of quality ensures it is compliant and fit for purpose at scale and end to end

Your team will manage (but not be limited to):

End to end testing and quality
Ensuring requirements are testable
Helping to design systems and the quality to ensure our integration always remain stable
Chaos testing
Audit testing
Defect resolution test automation
Test pyramid strategies

You will be excited by the thought of helping >400 Kaluza team members deliver the best software and solutions possible

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you'll have/be:

Happy to make decisions and bring others with you
Use data to make decisions
Have a track record in delivery at scale
Be client facing when needed
Be confident to speak to our large community of >300 software professionals and 400 Kaluza team members
Have views around design and delivery methodologies
Run RCA and overall quality programmes
Experience of working on the cloud at scale
Worked in an environment where the systems are critical and can have very limited downtime

Kaluza Values
Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:

We're on a mission, We build together, We're inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.
Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza's vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone's reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

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