Engineering Manager for Front End & Mobile

Eneco is evolving into a climate-neutral, digital-first energy company. Its product-focused digital division seamlessly integrates product, data, and IT, whose teams provide technical expertise to product teams, aligned with the business strategy. The Engineering Manager for Front End and Mobile helps oversee 50+ front-end and mobile engineers responsible for all daily, digital consumer touchpoints.

About Eneco

Driven by its mission of ‘sustainable energy for everyone,’ Eneco empowers consumers and businesses to pursue sustainability in their homes, workplaces, and lifestyles. The energy company focuses mainly on the radical electrification of industry, mobility, and the buildings and structures in our environment, phasing out natural gas, and accelerating the adoption of sustainable heating solutions, such as geothermal energy, green gas, and green hydrogen.

Eneco operates in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the UK under the brands Eneco, AgroEnergy, LichtBlick, Oxxio, and WoonEnergie. Headquartered in Rotterdam, the company achieves annual growth, serves approximately 5.6 million customers and generated a revenue of 5.2 billion euros in 2021. It produced a total of 14,735 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy, over ten percent more than in 2020, with around seventy percent from wind and solar energy.

“ We need to take action now, to prevent the planet from warming beyond one-and-a-half degrees, ensuring its habitability for future generations. Together with our customers, we strive to achieve climate neutrality by 2035. ” – As Tempelman, Chief Executive Officer of Eneco 

Eneco’s digital products and propositions play a pivotal role in accelerating the energy transition and realizing the One Planet Plan. The roadmap includes dynamic pricing, by adjusting rates based on the current demand and supply of energy. As well as the Virtual Power Plant, a system that connects Eneco assets with third-party assets and  enables Eneco to respond in real-time to energy demands.

Additionally, a platform for heat pumps, providing installers, technicians, and consumers with insights into the performance of heat pump installations, and an app-first service model are on the strategic agenda. To achieve these objectives, the digital organization is undergoing a modernization by emphasizing on product development closely aligned with the business and top-tier engineering. The Engineering Managers will play a significant role in this transformative process.

Vacancy: Engineering Manager for Front End & Mobile

The Engineering Manager for Front End and Mobile, along with Team Leads, Principal Engineers and Solution Architects, develop and guide a team of around fifty colleagues, which is divided into the Mobile App, Front-End and Digital Experience squads .

This team works on all products in the digital experience for both B2C and B2B customers across various channels, such as mobile apps, the website, and customer portals. The combined technologies include React, JavaScript, TypeScript, SiteCore, Kotlin, and SwiftUI, which is why a clear vision for the big picture is crucial for this role’s success.

Strategic Importance: Transition to a Product-Led Approach
The Engineering Managers play a fundamental role in successfully executing Eneco’s transition and overall strategy, with a strong focus on digital. This involves a new product-driven strategy and management structure, where these managers can actively contribute. Within the domain of their respective chapters, they establish both the technical and strategic visions.

Four new Engineering Managers will each be completely responsible for team development and quality standards within their respective fields. Guided by the Engineering Managers, the teams work towards the technical-strategic vision, formulated by the Engineering Managers, the Head of Engineering, subject-matter Principal Engineers, and Team Leads.

In its ongoing transition, Eneco’s digital organization operates in a hybrid scenario, structured around four domains:

• Front End and Mobile Engineering
• .NET Back End Engineering
• Customer Platform Engineering
• Quality Assurance and Testing

“ The Engineering Managers hold leadership roles with full HR responsibility, yet maintain an unwavering interest in the technical content. ” – Rick Molenaar, Head of Engineering of Eneco 

This position is ideal for an engineering leader with exceptional achievements in the Front End and Mobile domain, and substantial experience in leading specialists. This is a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the society-wide energy transition, as well as drive innovation within Eneco’s digital organization and its product-led business strategy.

Interested?

Eneco is working with Top of Minds to fill this vacancy.
To express your interest, please contact Jessica Lim at jessica.lim@topofminds.com .