Head of Software Engineering

Join us as the Head of Software Engineering and spearhead our commitment to the green journey. With a team of over 100 specialists encompassing developers, architects, QAs, designers, and engineering managers, you'll play a pivotal role in driving innovation and excellence in software engineering practices.

You will focus on overseeing the software development lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet business needs while adhering to best practices in software engineering.

Job description:

• Introducing and promoting modern (agile) development methods and necessary work tools in the group to ensure optimal and correct work organization;

• Cooperation with other group units, to link IT development principles with different methodologies and understandings used by the group (from idea to realization).

• Manage the work of the software development department;

• Ensuring the necessary qualified development resources in the form of in-house development teams and partners to ensure the realization of value-creating developments for IT product owners serving business lines;

• Cooperation with the IT product owner, procurement and administration department for the acquisition of software and development competence related to external partners;

• Ensuring a central view of ongoing IT development works (projects) and related development resources across the entire group.

Reasons to join us:

• Your colleagues are top experts in their field and are excellent and dedicated talents.

• You will work in a rapidly developing field of energy, which offers opportunities for learning, self-realization, and development, and appreciate your contribution to creating value that affects almost a million residents in our home markets!

• You are going to be a member of the IT management team of the Eesti Energia group and participate in the work of strategic development projects.

• Your team plays a crucial role in ensuring that our applications and systems are running smoothly for almost a million customers in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland.

• You will gain a wide experience with different technologies and take part in deep technical discussions.

• We have a lot of interesting initiatives and an exciting future perspective - you will never be bored here!

• You will have the opportunity to join the Eesti Energia sports club, Stebby platform facilities and health insurance, which will allow you to use sports and medical services on favourable terms. Your well-being is important to us!

• You will have 5 additional vacation days after the 1st year of work and part of the motivating performance reward system.

You are an excellent match for our team if:

• You have demonstrated experience and success in senior software development and engineering leadership roles.

• You possess a deep understanding of software engineering principles and technologies and have a track record of successfully leading teams that delivered complex software projects on time and within budget.

• You have strong talent management skills including talent development, coaching, mentoring, and team motivation.

• You can build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organization.

• You have an up-to-date knowledge of methodologies and trends in both business and IT.

• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate field concepts to technical and non-technical audiences at various hierarchical levels, ranging from board members to technical specialists.

• You are a leader and builder of both vision and bridges and can lead and motivate the team to achieve tactical and strategic goals.

• You are fluent in English and Estonian.

• You have a degree in business administration or a technology-related field, or equivalent work experience.