Vp of Engineering

**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 world’s 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 planet’s 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 Gentrack’s global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a technology first, people centric business.

**The Opportunity**

The global R&D organisation are currently hiring a VP of Engineering. The role of the VP of Engineering is to partner with the CTO lead the regional Development engineering teams in the Southern Hemisphere. You are a people person, a technology leader, comfortable with managing software development lifecycle - from “nothing” to Production: coaching teams, controlling, leading and reporting on progress, and developing a clear understanding of the business’ bigger picture. As a result, your teams produce top-notch software releases. You play a pivotal role in inspiring and motivating everyone in the Core R&D group to be the best they can be.

**The Specifics**:
Reporting into the CTO, you will be responsible for diagnosing and creating in partnership with the team the program of change programs relating to systems and process improvements. The role is an end-to-end role, - we are a hands-on team, and a team player attitude as well as technical excellence will see you succeed.

Whilst no day is the same, we would expect you to provide expertise in the following:

- Enabling the culture and the atmosphere where people will love getting up and being part of the team that delivers
- Extensive experience of delivering complex programmes and projects at research-commercial interface
- Excellent financial and operational management skills, combined with rigorous continuous improvement, to secure value for money, performance and innovation
- Experience of delivering Mission critical Enterprise solutions
- Continuously optimize the creation, review & adjustment of platforms such that these help to reduce project cycle times and development cost
- Inspiring and enabling your teams deliver excellent work at a high pace.
- The creation of high-quality software releases by leveraging engineering talent.
- Recruitment and leadership of technical talent, working with teams to continue to build the best winning teams
- Demonstrate and enable strong relationships with the engineering managers, architects technical leads and the software developers to ensure development is executed in a way that fits with the overall technical vision of the company.
- Lead collaboration with various functions, drive engineering initiatives, and have an impact at an organisational level
- You will measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals.
- You will manage teams’ and individuals’ performance, including coaching for career growth, and create a healthy team environment.

**What we're looking for **_(you don’t need to be a guru at all, we’re looking forward to coaching and collaborating with you):_**

You have multiple years of experience in a Development Delivery role, driving change and learning through multiple release cycles in agile and complex environment.

Experience of at least one of the following areas
- Salesforce Industries software
- Enterprise App solutions deployed in a SAAS environment
- You have experience in Utilities industry - big advantage.
- Ability to create and