The Company
We are entering a new era, with utilities worldwide transforming to meet business and sustainability targets. For over 35 years Gentrack has been partnering with the world's leading utilities, and more than 60 energy and water companies rely on us. Gentrack, with our partners Salesforce and AWS, are leading today's transformation with g2.0, an end-to-end product-to-profit solution. Using low code / no code, and composable technology, g2.0 allows utilities to launch new propositions in days, reduce cost-to-serve and lead in total experience.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 OpportunityAs a Technical Team Lead you are responsible for engineering performance and delivery, coaching engineers into high performing teams who build and maintain it right while delivering effectively,?whilst getting hands on to accelerate the teams progress. The Specifics
- Build and grow a high performing team.
- Attract, grow and develop team members. You will recruit and develop high performing teams and individuals. Ensure all your direct reports have goals, receive regular feedback and coaching so that they know how they are performing and what they need to do next to advance their career.?
- You will coach, mentor, and support the continuous improvement of your team.?Facilitatingteam growth through an experiment and learn mindset to ensure that the team and individuals are always looking for a better way.?
- Lead the software development lifecycle and operational processes for your team.
- Through partnering with the Product Management team ensure your team has a clear mission, understand their purpose and are continually delivering customer and technical value at a high rate.
- Lead technical input in the SDLC e.g. planning, stand-ups, estimation, retrospectives and backlog grooming as appropriate.?
- Identify and document technical initiatives to improve system performance, reduce technical debt, cut costs, enhance quality, and boost security. Consult and lobby for these initiatives to be included in the roadmap. This also involves evaluating the health of the code base.
- You will enable and support your teams running effective and efficient operational processes.?
- Software development and design.
- Continually improve the quality of the code over time. Lead solution design and review within your team, collaborating and sharing across wider company and ensuring design docs and blueprints are produced and accurate.
- Developing and maintaining software as part of a self-organising, multi-disciplined scrum team. You'll remain hands on to guide and grow your engineers, review code, improve quality and contribute code.
- Continually improve the quality of the code, product and broader engineering system including tooling, processes and capability.
- Working on initiatives and process improvements to support the wider Development group as a positive influential force for technical best practice.?
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)
- Experience leading, coaching, and growing individuals and managing a high performing software development team in a product development context.
- A gardener in mind - knows how to seed, grow and nurture - people and code. You have an appetite for helping others learn.
- Expertise in relevant technologies and concepts including Object Orientated Design, Enterprise Database, AWS, Java or .Net experience, GIT, Web Services, CRM, Utilities industry.
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.
