Vice President of Engineering

About Position

Following our acquisition of SIMONE and Liwacom, Energy Exemplar is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead engineering strategy, technical execution, and organisational integration for the acquired platform.

This executive will build and scale a high-performing engineering organisation, modernise the technology platform, deliver against the product roadmap, and execute the technical initiatives underpinning the acquisition’s value creation plan.

Working closely with Product Management, Solutions, Sales, and the ICE development teams, the VP of Engineering will establish engineering best practices, technical governance, delivery excellence, and scalable operating models. The role will accelerate innovation while integrating the acquired platform into Energy Exemplar’s broader technology ecosystem.

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.

Technical Support for Value Creation Initiatives

Partner with Product, Sales, and Customer Success to provide engineering leadership for strategic initiatives, including:

• Supporting the transition to subscription-based offerings through scalable platform capabilities.
• Delivering technical enhancements required for the European DSO market, including operational analytics, outage planning, hydrogen blending, network constraints, and cross-border flow modelling.
• Building integration capabilities that enable cross-selling across the Energy Exemplar portfolio.
• Supporting sales enablement through technical expertise, demonstrations, and customer engagement where required.
• Delivering platform enhancements that support North American market expansion.
• Driving engineering efficiencies that improve product margins and support long-term growth.

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.

Personal Attributes

• Inspirational engineering leader with a strong focus on execution.
• Strategic thinker who balances long-term architecture with short-term delivery priorities.
• Excellent technical judgement and problem-solving skills.
• Strong people leader who develops engineering talent and leadership capability.
• Collaborative and influential across Product, Sales, Customer Success, and executive stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, post-acquisition, and transformational environments.
• Passionate about engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.