Director of Engineering - Client Engineering EU

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Job title: Director Engineering - Client Engineering EU

Location: London - Hybrid

Salary: £126,000 to £177,000

Team: Product & Technology

Reporting To: VP of Engineering

This role is based in London, UK and requires existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real‑time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human‑centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

At Kaluza we embrace a flexible, hybrid work model that balances autonomy with the power of in‑person connection. Many of our teams find value in coming together regularly to collaborate, strengthen relationships, and accelerate progress. We’re focused on shaping thoughtful, team‑driven approaches that support both business impact and individual well‑being.

What will I be doing?

Providing technical leadership and line management of engineering teams between primarily London, Bristol and Paris, focused on building solutions for our European clients. You will lead a team that will extend and adapt our global platform in order to deliver to clients in new European markets. You will ensure that the local product team operates in the most efficient manner and allows us to meet our expanding client base in the region.

• Collaborating with Commercial, Customer Success and Product stakeholders to develop shared strategic outcomes and ensuring the technology team is set up to achieve these outcomes.
• Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership and new clients.
• Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with our European clients throughout the entire client lifecycle from sales, delivery into maintenance and account management.
• Providing the strategic vision for the Platform Integrations area with the ability to translate this into a clear, actionable roadmap for your teams.
• Leading and developing Heads of Engineering and Principal Engineers in a small autonomous leadership team.
• Being ultimately responsible for technical decision making and the technology strategy within your area and working to influence the larger Kaluza platform and architectural vision.
• Building and promoting our technology brand, including overseeing how we bring new talent to your technology teams.
• Continually improving your area towards technical and operational excellence and industry best practices.
• Building an excellent technology culture of highly autonomous, intrinsically motivated, well‑aligned teams.
• Helping teams to make technical and prioritisation decisions that align with our business objectives and long term goals.
• Building strong relationships with the Product, Design and Commercial partners to your teams.
• Being ultimately responsible for the overall implementation and run budget for your area, including managing programme spend and client revenue.
• Building impactful teams and working with the people team to develop talent and build the succession plans of the next generation of leaders.

About You.

• Have a track record of delivering large, complex and long running transformational programmes of work to enterprise clients, ideally involving SaaS platform integrations and migrations
• Be an expert in cloud and SaaS integration technologies to enable fast time to value for our clients.
• Have familiarity with SaaS platforms and their integrations into enterprises, ideally within the energy or billing/payments domain.
• Be comfortable in front of clients, particularly during pitches, implementation planning and contract negotiations.
• Be a proven senior leader with experience building and leading a team with a focus on your team’s development and engagement.
• Have experience leading teams through significant organisational or technical changes.
• Inspire your team and all of Kaluza and are excellent at recruiting, retaining and developing great people.
• Have a strong technology background and proven experience in leading a team to build well architectured, high quality software solutions.
• Have expertise in designing and managing robust, well‑documented APIs that new clients can use to integrate with the core Kaluza platform.
• Have an understanding of data management and flow, particularly in the context of integrating and migrating client data.
• Have a deep understanding of agile methods and value, co‑creating product vision and leadership strategies with your counterparts from other functions.
• Be someone who is comfortable with ambiguity and excels in fast‑paced and changeable environments being able to think on your feet and do whats needed to get new clients over the line.

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.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get:

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• And more…

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that 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. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.

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