Head of Platform Foundations
Core
Own the core foundations for every Kaluza engineer and client, including the internal platform, production reliability, release pipelines, and AI tooling to enable scaling with falling marginal cost.
Role type
Head of Engineering (Platform Foundations)
Builds
Internal platform, production reliability, release pipelines, and AI tooling for Kaluza Retail, Energy Optimisation, and Customer Care across UK, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Domain
Energy / Utilities / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Multi-year platform strategy, scaling platform and SRE teams, AI tooling implementation, production reliability at scale, cloud unit economics, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
DORA frameworks, internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product thinking, regulated markets experience
Technologies
AWS, Datadog
Responsibilities
Set multi-year platform strategy and roadmap, make Kaluza scale repeatably at falling marginal cost, lead AI transformation in engineering, ensure reliability through SLOs and incident response, own software shipping via CI/CD and progressive delivery, manage cloud unit economics and FinOps, lead and mentor a UK-based team with global remit
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader
