VP Engineering

Job Description

Energy Exemplar is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead engineering strategy, technical execution, and organisational integration for an acquired platform. The successful candidate will build and scale a high-performing engineering organisation, modernise the technology platform, deliver against the product roadmap, and execute technical initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Strategy & Platform Modernisation

• Lead engineering strategy and execution for the acquired platform, ensuring alignment with Energy Exemplar's broader technology vision.
• Establish engineering operating models, technical standards, and development processes that support scalable, predictable delivery.
• Build and develop a high-performing global engineering organisation while fostering a strong engineering culture.

Technology Stack Consolidation

• Lead the consolidation and rationalisation of the technology stack across the combined organisations.
• Drive technical simplification, reduce duplication, and establish a unified platform architecture.

Legacy Platform Modernisation

• Lead the re-engineering of legacy Fortran and other legacy codebases into a modern, scalable software architecture.
• Develop a phased engineering strategy that minimises customer disruption while accelerating technical transformation.

Platform Integration & APIs

• Drive the engineering delivery of API-first capabilities and headless integrations between PLEXOS and the acquired platform.
• Establish integration architecture that enables cross-product workflows and supports future platform expansion.

Engineering Delivery

• Partner closely with Product Management to deliver the product roadmap through disciplined engineering execution.
• Improve engineering predictability through release planning, agile delivery practices, quality standards, DevOps, and automation.
• Drive continuous improvement in software quality, performance, scalability, and security.

Global Engineering Leadership

• Lead distributed engineering teams across Europe and India.
• Align priorities, standardise engineering processes, improve collaboration, and eliminate duplicated effort across teams.
• Coach and develop engineering leaders while building organisational capability.

Measures of Success

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Successful organisational and cultural integration of the acquired engineering teams into Energy Exemplar.
• Delivery of a modernised engineering platform with reduced technical debt.
• Successful consolidation of technology stacks into a unified architecture.
• Delivery of API-based integration between the acquired platform and PLEXOS.
• Predictable delivery of engineering commitments against the product roadmap.
• Improved engineering productivity, software quality, and release cadence.
• Successful migration of legacy code towards a modern architecture.
• Engineering support for subscription product delivery and commercial growth initiatives.
• Improved collaboration across Engineering, Product, Solutions, and Sales.
• Technical readiness for future North American expansion.

Candidate Requirements

• 15+ years of experience leading enterprise software engineering organisations within complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software businesses.
• Significant experience as a VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior technical leader.
• Proven experience leading post-acquisition technology integration and engineering transformation.
• A track record of building and scaling high-performing global engineering organisations.
• Extensive experience modernising legacy software platforms and reducing technical debt.
• Strong expertise in modern software architecture, cloud-native platforms, API-first architecture, distributed systems, platform scalability, DevOps and CI/CD, engineering governance, and SDLC best practices.
• Experience leading large-scale platform integration and technology consolidation initiatives.
• Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Experience partnering effectively with Product Management to deliver customer-centric roadmaps.
• Familiarity with computationally intensive, modelling, optimisation, or analytics software is highly desirable.
• Exposure to energy software, utilities, infrastructure, or industrial technology is advantageous.