Engineering Manager

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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

Familiarity with Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI

• 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