kaluza - Head of Platform Foundations
Requirements
• Ideally, you’ll have: • Proven experience in a senior leadership role running an organisation’s Platform function, with a track record of hiring, mentoring and scaling high-performing platform and SRE teams through engineering managers • Experience developing and delivering a multi-year platform strategy and roadmap with product counterparts • Hands-on experience implementing AI tooling across an engineering organisation and measurably changing how it builds software, not just piloting it • A track record of running production reliability at scale (SLOs, incident management, on-call) for a multi-tenant or multi-instance SaaS platform, with a strong grounding in modern cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred) • Experience owning cloud unit economics and making the investment case to Finance, plus strong partner management with technology vendors • Exceptional stakeholder management, including presenting platform strategy, risk and investment cases to executive leaders. Experience with DORA, internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product thinking, regulated or data-sovereignty-sensitive markets (energy, utilities, financial services), or running a platform for external clients is a bonus • Five values guide how we work at Kaluza: • Play to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale. • Solve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes. • Build trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say. • Own the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego. • Go further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.
Responsibilities
• Set the multi-year platform strategy and roadmap with Product and Engineering leadership, so platform investment follows client and commercial priorities • Make Kaluza scale repeatably at falling marginal cost, delivering new client instances, mass meter migrations and new markets • Lead Kaluza’s AI transformation in engineering, embedding tooling, agents and guardrails into the development lifecycle, measuring the impact, and partnering with Product on the AI capabilities we offer clients • Make reliability a feature clients trust, through SLOs, incident response and continuous improvement across all client instances • Own how software ships at Kaluza, with CI/CD and progressive-delivery practices that let teams deliver safely and often, using frameworks such as DORA to measure and improve velocity • Own cloud unit economics and FinOps, making investment and savings recommendations to the technology budget, and manage strategic partners including AWS and Datadog • Lead, mentor and grow a UK-based team with a global remit, building a culture of engineering excellence and developing the next layer of leaders, while working with Security and IAM to build in compliance (ISO 27001 / 22301) and data residency
Benefits
• Time off and family: 26 days’ holiday, plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period • Health and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests • Pay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% of salary to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work • Growth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget • Climate: Furthr, our climate action app • Come as you are • We want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. • Find out more on our careers page https://www.kaluza.com/careers/ and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaluza/. Our Applicant Data Protection Policy is here https://www.kaluza.com/applicant-data-protection-notice/.
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