Practice Lead - Technology Engineering

Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role As the Practice Lead - Engineering, you'll be at the helm of our Engineering team, covering front-end development, integration, backend development and Data engineering. Your mission? Drive performance and create a culture of continuous improvement. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including our other newly created Data & AI and Platforms & Architecture teams, to deliver key projects that support our renewable energy goals. This role is all about managing our data and software engineering teams, ensuring they perform consistently, improve continuously, and maintain high standards moving forward. You'll lead and develop a high-performing team, mentor Chapter Leads and Senior Engineers and foster a culture that balances performance with a people first approach. We truly have a unique organisation where we operate almost like several businesses combined, including Retail, Trading, and Generation, to name a few. This means you'll get exposure to a variety of exciting projects and will have the opportunity to work with those cross-functional teams. You will have a seat at the table in technical forums (like architectural and data forums), representing Engineering in decision-making processes. You will drive our Engineering function at Contact.