Lead Technical Specialist - Front Office (Access To Markets)

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a crucial role in the net zero transition, ensuring we have the energy supplies required to meet the needs of our customers; procuring the fuel required by the generation plants and selling the power output from our renewable and low-carbon thermal assets.

Join us on our journey to net zero and help us power change.

About the Role

Base Location: Havant, Reading or Perth

Salary: £65,752 - £76,366 and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

About the Role

As the Lead Technical Specialist within Energy Markets IT, you'll join the Front Office (Access to Markets) value stream where you'll play a key role in delivering a range of technical services by following and adapting Agile and DevOps to meet the business outcomes.

Allegro the key application used by the Energy Traders 24/7 is a Platinum service, hosted on the SSE cloud platform. Third party trading exchanges feed data into the Allegro central repository and they are critical to SSE to balance its energy position.

Your role will be to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team of technical resources to develop and support the IT solutions and services aligned with your product owner and key business processes.

You will provide guidance and direction on a wide-ranging view of technical changes and operational support including assurance of service transition during the DevOps cycle. You will work closely with the Product Owner and Delivery Lead to support the delivery of key products. Your knowledge and influence will facilitate the ongoing maintenance and development of our core applications.

Key responsibilities for this role will include:

- Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform pipeline across production and near production environments.

- Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.

- Providing the focal point for advice, guidance and technical input of own area through knowledge transfer, one to one workshops and mentoring of other team members as required.

- Managing major IT incidents to resolution within defined SLAs and utilising problem management to avoid repeat occurrences.

- Be part of an out of hours on-call support rota. (1 week in 4).

What do I need?

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Multiple Agile environment full SDLC under your belt from a DevOps Engineering perspective with a preference for building applications with Azure experience or other DevOps tools such as Github/Git.

- Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages (C#.net, Java, Python, Ruby, Shell).

- Extensive experience in Build & Release Management, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), ideally using Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, releases) to release software to production.

- Experience of configuring and troubleshooting cloud integrations (Azure Function Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Logic Apps).

- Experience in configuring and using Monitoring tools to support the releases (any tools but preference for Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics).

What's in it for you?

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.

Further actions

All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact David on 01738 275846.

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.