Engineering Manager

Job Description

Our mission is to make clean power accessible. We are passionate about making a positive impact on communities and the environment where we work.

We're designing, financing, building and operating the world's most sophisticated battery systems to enable the take up of more renewable power, electrifying fleets for cleaner air, and providing clean, portable power including repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Our proprietary software and data analysis optimises operational performance for our customers to reduce emissions and costs.

Since we began in 2017, we've raised over £2.7 billion in debt and equity funding and transformed it into >1.2GW of grid-connected batteries live or under contract and c.3,400 electric vehicles supported. We have operations in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the US and Canada, with a global headquarters in London.

We're the leading owner and operator of battery storage in the UK, supporting the National Grid with the uptake of renewable power. We also work with c.90% of the UK's major bus companies, powering 25% of the UK e-bus market. We're also the number one owner and operator of e-buses in Australia and New Zealand, and are quickly expanding into light commercial vehicles and trucks. Our rapidly growing company is looking for highly talented and motivated people to join us.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an Engineering Manager with experience in EV Charging Management platforms, ideally within fleet and depot charging environments. You will have a strong understanding of EV charging architectures, including cloud and edge-based CSMS/CPMS solutions, and experience delivering smart charging use cases such as optimisation, prioritisation, and energy management. An interest in renewable energy, battery storage, electric fleets, and energy markets is highly desirable.

As a leader, you will build and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions, while championing modern software engineering practices including Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and cloud-native technologies. Strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills are essential.

A Taste of the Day to Day

Domain

• Understanding of the EV Charging solution architecture (ideally within the Fleet/Depot based context).
• Experience of implementing a range of use cases within the field of EV Charging Management (prioritisation, optimisation and ancillary services).
• Knowledge of both Cloud and Edge based Charging Station Management Systems (CSMS / CPMS).
• Wider interest/experience in renewable energy, electric fleets and energy markets.
• Willing and able to lead other domain teams if/when required. Other domains include Vehicle Telematics, Web Portal, Data, Cloud and Edge computing.

People

• Accountable for building high-performing teams with the right number of people, skills, experience, and tools to succeed.
• Ensure the teams have processes that enable sustainable delivery of business impact.
• Partner with product on prioritization, planning, and creating end-to-end transparency.
• Create alignment by setting clear goals, expectations, constraints, and key metrics at the right altitude, holding the team accountable for progress against them.
• Help your team grow through feedback, learning, coaching, mentoring, experience, and failure.
• Implement and promote diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Culture

• Champion a culture where cross-functional teams work with agility to delight their customers.
• Create a high trust environment of psychological safety where all staff are included and heard.
• Create an environment where views are shared, considered, decisions are made, and conflicts are resolved effectively.
• Hold team members accountable to actions that uphold values and support our engineering community (Pioneering & Agile, Dependable, Collaborative).
• Proactively share information to ensure stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Create a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation focused on problems that add customer value.
• Build a great leadership team by helping, supporting, and challenging.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Technology

• Ensure that technical discovery takes place and champion reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Ensure that decisions we make align with our technology principles.
• Provide high-quality feedback on designs, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions.
• Help teams understand the trade-offs we are making and why
• Ensure teams are effectively managing and reducing technical debt.
• Encourage ways to simplify systems.
• Champion industry best practices such as TDD, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and ADRs.
• Stay abreast of and integrate emerging technologies and industry trends.

Process

• Ensure teams have suitable agile processes that enable transparency, continuous improvement, and the ability to predict when work will be delivered.
• Ensure teams have the right feedback loops in place to get feedback from each other and their stakeholders.
• Ensure team understand key performance indicators (KPIs) and use them to measure success.
• Ensure teams can make data-informed decisions in a collaborative manner, can A/B test hypotheses, and can also disagree and commit when required.
• Resolve blockers, dependencies, and risks to ensure successful delivery.
• Have an impact through influence, strategic planning, problem-solving, and effective decision-making.
• Enable teams to learn from their mistakes and share the learnings to drive better business outcomes.

Accountability & Autonomy

• Ensure teams and staff understand what they are responsible for and how their products deliver value to our customers and the business.
• Help teams understand changes in the business and market and how it impacts them.
• Reduce friction for teams through suitable processes, reduction in dependencies, and automation.
• Build healthy partnerships with stakeholders and teams with whom your teams have long-lived relationships.
• Ensure teams and staff are empowered to make decisions quickly.

Health and Safety

• Actively contribute to Zenobe's commitment to health and safety, wellbeing and sustainability by; integrating these principles into daily responsibilities, ensuring a safe and supportive work environment, promoting both the physical and mental health of self and colleagues, and adopting sustainable and energy-efficient practices to minimize environmental impact. By doing so, each employee at Zenobe plays a vital role in fostering a culture that prioritises overall safety, holistic wellbeing, environmental sustainability in our business operations.

What We're Looking For

We realise that certain groups of people are less likely to apply for a role if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. To be absolutely clear: if you like the look of this job and think you could do it well, we encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience. Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world.

Key Experience:

• Must have hands-on experience as a Software Engineer in a cross-functional team.
• Must have experience using Agile/Lean techniques.
• Must have experience as a manager of Software Engineers.
• Must have experience across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Must have experience managing fully remote teams.
• Must have experience with some of the following: AWS, Java Spring boot, Python, Node.js, Typescript, JavaScript, Microservices, API Integration and Delivery, Streaming Architectures, Data Lakes.
• Should have experience with CDK, Terraform, or other IAC tooling
• Should be familiar with Git, Slack, MS Office.
• Should have experience with TDD, DevSecOps, and ADRs.
• Could have familiarity with Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Working at Zenobē

We're passionate about sustainability and are proud to offer Team Zenobē a pioneering and collaborative working environment. We encourage our people to take ownership of their career progression and celebrate those that can think outside the box.

If you'd like to join our community of likeminded people hit the apply button now, we'd love to hear from you!

What We Offer

Charge your career at Zenobē and receive

• Up to 33% annual bonus for being awesome
• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
• Private Medical Insurance
• £1,500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
• EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cash back health plan
• Plus more

Lots of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexitime and hybrid working. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but please talk to us about the flexibility you need and let's see how we can make it work.

Our Approach to Diversity and Inclusion

Our people are our strongest asset and the key determinant of our success, and we value a range of skillsets and perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We work to provide equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment, where everyone is fairly treated in the application process and through their career at Zenobē. If there are any adjustments that would help improve your experience with Zenobē, please let us know when you apply.