Director, Quality & Release Engineering

Job description

Location: London or Bristol, UK (hybrid, three days a week in the office) Level: Director Team: Quality & Release Salary : £150,000 - £180,000 + discretionary bonus Contract: Permanent Reporting To: VP Engineering Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities. About Kaluza Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life. With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen. What you’ll do The quality engineering function is shifting from manual oversight and process governance toward an AI-assisted product development lifecycle where QA leads its own domain test strategy and bespoke tooling drives automation maturity. This role will drive this shift in our organization and ways of working. You will own quality and release governance at programme level, directly manage an engineering team building AI-assisted automation and test data capability, and set the standard that QA leads across delivery streams work to. You will be as comfortable driving change as you are accountable for outcomes. Responsibilities will include: Strategic Quality Leadership Own and evolve the quality strategy across delivery streams, aligned to programme objectives and client SLAs Define and maintain release governance frameworks — release readiness criteria, risk acceptance, and sign-off authorities Set quality standards and coverage expectations; ensure QA leads translate these into domain-level test strategies Drive defect governance at programme level — internal and client-facing SLA compliance Represent quality and risk in senior leadership, architecture, and product forums AI-Driven Tooling & Automation Directly manage a team of engineers building and maintaining bespoke aut…