Gentrack Ltd (Global) Looking for Head of Development Engineering at Freemans Bay, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

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 for the sustainable era.

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, outside of work we are musicians, travel fanatics, artists, sailors, family folk, environmentalists, and sport lovers. 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 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 people centric business.

The Opportunity

The global R&D organisation are currently hiring a Head of Development Engineering. The role of the Head Development is to partner with the CTO and 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.
• Improve development processes and methodologies to reach and keep world class standards for the development of Hardware and Firmware.
• 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 and/or experience in the Utilities industry.

Furthermore, you will ideally meet the below criteria to be successful in this role~

• Ability to create and facilitate partnerships by influencing a diverse range of regional and international stakeholders
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to draft and present strategic incisive reports
• Well – developed business acumen and credibility
• Experience of building teams, developing and implementing operational plans from strategic frameworks
• Leadership experience~ collaborative, coaching approach to enable and grow talent
• You will lead with care, recognize individual contributions, give and seek timely feedback, ensuring the team is healthy and sustaining productive relationships.
• Organised, creative, efficient, and effective and great at problem solving.
• High level of analytical and strategic ability demonstrated by proven track record of delivery within a comparable environment
• You are an effective and inspiring leader who genuinely cares about your teams.
• Performance is high, delivery is critical. You understand this and know how to bring your team along for the journey.
• You’re creative with new ideas – not applying the same list of rules that everyone else has been using – then you can action these ideas into tangible programmes and drive them.
• You’re highly collaborative and adaptable – no day is truly the same when you are operating in a high growth business.
• Culture matters deeply to you, and you are passionate about building and maintaining culture throughout change

What We Offer

• Flexibility of working hours plus hybrid office & remote working
• Career development opportunities from conferences to self-guided learning, we’ll support your special interests and professional growth
• A talented team to work in
• Medical, Life and Income Protection
• An awesome office building complete with pool table, table tennis table, basketball / football / tennis court, playstation and more
• Regular social events / food trucks and fun office wellbeing events
• An opportunity to further develop and deepen your passion for software

This will be a role offering constant learning, working as part of a vibrant team. We are very passionate about what we do and, therefore, the successful candidate will be focused and capable of delivering in a fast-paced and time-constrained environment. Our reward package is competitive and global career prospects are good for the right person.

This role is part of a global team, therefore some flexibility is required in terms of attending meetings with team members based outside of New Zealand.

Want to know more about your next employer? – visit www.gentrack.com

We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you are passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you will fit right in.

Also, qualifications are not that important to us. If you have great experience, talent and passion then we’d like to hear from you.

Gentrack is an equal opportunity employer and supports diversity in our workforce. Gentrack encourages diversity in culture and linguists, gender equality, people with disability, people who identify as LGBTQI+, and Maori/Pasifika people, who are all encouraged to apply.

To apply for this vacancy you MUST either currently reside in New Zealand (and hold the right to work in New Zealand), or if currently off-shore, be an New Zealand citizen with valid travel conditions.