Asset Optimization Community Lead (m/f/x)

Job description

Join us and drive the energy revolution We are looking for a passionate Asset Optimization Community Lead (m/f/x) who wants to help build the most innovative energy trading platform on the planet. As part of our Trading Technology function, you will lead the Asset Optimization Community, responsible for developing and maintaining automated trading algorithms that optimize customers’ grid-scale batteries and other flexible renewable energy assets. You will create the conditions for our teams to deliver robust, high-quality optimization solutions across energy markets and asset types, balancing customer needs, commercial opportunities and product delivery priorities. In this people-focused leadership role, you will lead and develop Team Leads, strengthen technical capabilities and ensure that engineering capacity, priorities and commitments remain clear and realistic. Combining technical credibility with sound judgement and a delivery mindset, you will empower highly skilled optimization engineers to do their best work, foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement, and enable the community to deliver reliable solutions at pace without compromising quality or sustainable workloads. Note: We can only consider candidates based in Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK (or open to relocation to one of these countries, provided the candidate holds the right to work). Redefine "automation" in energy trading As Asset Optimization Community Lead, you will Lead and grow the community: Line manage Team Leads, support their development and build a culture of ownership, collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement Set priorities and enable delivery: Balance engineering capacity and competing demands across product development, new markets, customer pilots and live operations, working closely with Product and Delivery Champion engineering excellence: Set expectations for software quality, reliability and safe operation, helping teams continuously improve their algorithms and engineering practices Provide technical direction: Bring sound judgement to complex optimization challenges, support technical decision-making and strengthen expertise across the community without becoming a bottleneck Connect technology and business: Work with Product, Delivery, Trading Operations and Business Development to align technical capabilities…