Senior IT Manager - Colleague Products

Kaluza’s vision is to help create a world where decarbonization is easy. Born out of the OVO Group, Kaluza is the AI platform powering the future of energy. 

From revolutionising customer billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our technologies are empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers and unlocking the benefits of renewable energy and smart devices to help decarbonise the grid. Our products are built with differentiation in mind, giving developers endless ability to extend our core capabilities.

We’ve got a start-up mentality, but we’re also backed by the resources of the UK’s largest independent energy supplier, OVO Energy. (The best of both worlds, one could say!) 

What will I be doing?

Reporting to Kaluza CTO - you will be providing Technology leadership for our colleague technology.  This technology provides the capabilities used by colleagues across Kaluza enabling them to do amazing things for each other and Kaluza’s customers. 

Your role will be varied and will involve:

• Management of our company wide technology infrastructure for offices and systems, helping our Kaluza teams be more effective. 
• Ownership of end user compute strategy, IT Service Desk and productivity tools used by colleagues (e.g Slack, Atlassian, GSuite)
• Tech ownership of solutions that help us support our finances and our people e.g. HR systems.
• Providing leadership for the Kaluza colleagues technology teams supporting all colleagues across Kaluza.  Responsible for technical decision making, organisation, delivery and budget.
• Working with stakeholders and internal/external partners to ensure we use technology to delight our colleagues and enable them to deliver on our company decarbonization mission.
• Helping to define the technology strategy to position Kaluza as a forward-thinking technology organisation.

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you will have/be

• Relevant experience in a very fast paced, scale up business 
• Experience in team management and people development
• Run a high performing IT service desk in the past 
• Experience administering SaaS productivity tooling like Slack, Atlassian and GSuite
• You’ve helped the productivity of your company in the past by connecting and automating systems
• Experience selecting vendors and managing contracts

From us you’ll get* 

• 4% of your salary to spend on flexible lifestyle benefits
• 5% matched employer contribution to your pension
• Discretionary annual bonus 
• 25 days holiday + 1 for your birthday
• Flexible working hours
• And many more... 

(*) Please note that certain benefits kick-in once you have passed probation which can be up to 6 months after your start date.

We want the best people

At Kaluza, we empower our people to have choices around where and when they work - flexible working arrangements can be discussed for all of our roles. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team for more info.

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.