3 Days Left Engineering Manager

Job Description

The Company

Gentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions. The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Working with some of the worlds biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences, and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities.

Our Values and Culture

Colleagues at Gentrack are one big team, working together to drive efficiency in two of the planets most precious resources, energy, and water. We are passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference. Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners, shareholders, and each other. Our core values are

Respect for the planet

Respect for our customers and

Respect for each other

Gentrackers are a group of smart thinkers and dedicated doers. We are a diverse team who love our work and the people we work with and who collaborate and inspire each other to deliver creative solutions that make our customers successful. We are a team that shares knowledge, asks questions, raises the bar, and are expert advisers. At Gentrack we care about doing honest business that is good for not just customers but families, communities, and ultimately the planet. Gentrackers continuously look for a better way and drive quality into everything they do.

This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentracks global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a technology first, people centric business.

The Opportunity

As an Engineering Manager you lead and manage multiple of our Product Engineering teams, guiding the strategy and execution across multiple projects or workstreams to deliver unparalleled value to our customers. You are responsible for engineering performance, practices, quality and delivery in partnership with the Product Management team.

You are a leader, comfortable with managing innovation, software development and product delivery, coaching teams, an agile mindset, and a clear understanding of the business bigger picture. You play a pivotal role in inspiring and motivating everyone in the Product Development group to be the best they can be.

The Specifics

- Build and grow high performing teams.
- You will have multiple product development teams reporting to you either directly, indirectly (manager of managers) or both. You will recruit, grow and engage these teams.
- Create an inclusive, engaged and diverse environment where people can do their best work, creating conditions which allow people to flourish.
- Lead the software development lifecycle and operational processes for your teams.
- Through partnering with the Product Management team ensure your teams have clear missions, understand their purpose and are continually delivering balanced customer and technical value at a high rate.
- Understand customer needs and feedback through engaging with customers via multiple channels (sales, support etc) and via engaging and supporting internal stakeholders from multiple teams (Product Management, Sales, Delivery, Customer Success).
- You will enable and support your teams running effective and efficient operational processes through partnering with the platform team, security team and other stakeholders.
- You will provide oversight and governance support for the product capabilities needed as part of wider delivery programs.
- Guide your teams to continuously improve their processes and ways of working to maximise developer experience and the delivery of value to internal stakeholders and customers. Foster adoption of an 'experiment and learn' mindset.
- Continually improve the quality of the code, product and broader engineering system including tooling, processes and capability.
- Your strong technical background allows you to contribute during technical discussions from implementation and code quality to test approaches to infrastructure selection and non functional characteristics to architecture design. You know what good looks like and can raise the bar across Gentrack.
- Foster the evolution of a product development team [SS1] culture in a growing organization including maturing and adapting our processes, tooling and taking on strategic initiatives which improve developer experience for all. Youll use data and insights to inform decision making.

What we&aposre looking for (you dont need to be a guru at all, were looking forward to coaching and collaborating with you)

- Experience managing software development teams in a product development context.
- Experience with managing multiple teams.
- Experience with one or more prominent programming languages (C#, Typescript, C/C++).
- A gardener in mind - knows how to seed, grow and nurture - people and code. You have an appetite for helping others learn.
- Strong skills of influence and organisational savvy, your impact extends beyond your teams to the wider organisation.

What we offer in return

- Personal growth in leadership, commercial acumen and technical excellence
- To be part of a global, winning high growth organization with a career path to match
- A vibrant, culture full of people passionate about transformation and making a difference -with a one team, collaborative ethos
- A competitive reward package that truly awards our top talent
- A chance to make a true impact on society and the planet

Gentrack want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you are passionate about learning new things and keen to join the mission, you will fit right in.

[SS1]@Luke Ryan just wondering if it is worth highlighting that we want to move to a more metric based approach, implement and take action based on real insights.

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