Software Engineering Manager

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Team: FinOps - Energy Tech
Salary banding: £100,000 - £115,000
Experience: Mid-level to Expert
Working pattern: Full time
Reporting to: Head of Engineering and Technology Excellence
Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
This role in 3 words: Engaged, Collaborative, Technical
Top 3 qualities for this role: Stakeholder Management, Deep Technical Understanding, Excellent Problem Solver

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

The Energy Tech team looks after the automated energy commodity trading systems, FLEX automated asset management systems and the SQL-based data lake which is used by analysts to forecast our energy consumption and demand. The applications are high-throughput and data-intensive, providing OVO’s core ability to buy and sell £billions of clean, affordable energy for its customers every year.

This role in a nutshell:

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join the Energy Tech team, composed of 12 engineers in two squads. Working alongside Product Managers, Delivery Managers and senior stakeholders, you will represent Engineering at every turn.

You will be responsible for the technical direction, team shape, welfare and progression of the exceptional engineers we have in the team.

Alongside the other SEMs in the FinOps domain, you will be involved in cross-cutting engineering initiatives around CI/CD, DORA, engineering excellence and quality assurance - striving for improvement using Kaizen and metric-driven analysis on how to be the best team possible!

Is this job for me?:

• Passionate about nurturing engineering talent, encouraging their development, and also ensuring everyone is aligned with product delivery objectives
• Genuinely excited about developing products that will positively impact over a million people and also our environment
• Experience working with high performing engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their technical decision making
• You use your influence and stakeholder management skills to have wide-reaching impact
• Love building scalable, resilient products
• Seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge

You’ll be a successful Software Engineering Manager at OVO if you…

• Are passionate about technical excellence, you’ll find a strong culture of automated testing, frequent deployments to production, and using agile practices.
• Love working with cross-functional teams that are product focussed, and are responsible for the entirety of their product, including feature conception, coding, testing, deployment, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, setting SLOs, and support. 

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £100,000 and £115,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..

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Last updated on Aug 21, 2024