Director Of Software

Company Overview

Onyx Insight is a trailblazer in the field of renewable energy digitalisation, bringing award winning innovation and applied engineering to wind turbine fleet owners and operators. We combine AI-driven software with sensor networks to optimize asset efficiency and performance, increase energy production and improve commercial potential of customer assets. Having reached a key point in our organisational scale-up process, we’re now seeking a technically-focussed Director of Software to lead our software and analytics team based in Nottingham.

Role Summary

As the Director of Software, you will provide technical leadership to our Software Engineering team. You will also be responsible for shaping our software offerings, driving AI innovation and ensuring seamless integration with our sensor technologies. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, and product management, to deliver robust and scalable cloud-based software solutions. You’ll be a recognised subject matter expert, with the ability to make key decisions around technology and architecture who enjoys being hands on as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead our architects, software developers, quality engineers, devops engineers, data scientists and project/program managers to create high performance, scalable, and reliable software solutions.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.
• Supervise quality control process, assure delivery of customer requirements, and manage various project planning and execution activities.
• Lead data scientists to create innovative AI/ML models in our software products. Leverage data science for monitoring automation, condition-based risk assessment, failure prediction, maintenance optimization, operational reliability, and throughput maximization.
• Drive research efforts to build AI/ML solutions with Industry and Partner organisations.
• Lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high-quality bar through clear and repeatable engineering processes

Qualifications:

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (an advanced degree is preferred).

Experience:

• Proven track record of leading software development teams in a fast-paced environment.

• Proven track record of building scalable industrial grade B2B software, AI and IoT solutions. Experience in the renewable energy industry is a plus.

• Proficiency in using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proficiency in Containerization, Kubernetes, and Microservices architecture.

• Experience with cost efficient use of cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offerings.

• Understanding of best practices in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated deployment and orchestration tools.

• Experience in implementing fault tolerant queuing and event driven solutions for real time and batch data collection from sensors, CMS and SCADA systems and other operational data sources.

• Proficiency in using a combination of controls, tools, policies, procedures and secure coding practices to create a defense in depth security solution that protects our network, infrastructure, data, and applications.

• Experience in handling and prioritizing timely detection and swift response to security incidents and breaches.

• Ability to translate business strategy into actionable technology execution plans.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

About ONYX

ONYX Insight is a growing technology and engineering organisation in the renewable energy sector. Our vision is to build a more efficient future by becoming the world’s most innovative provider of predictive technology solutions. Our advanced sensing, software and analytics combined with our engineering experience are deployed on wind turbines around the world to maximise production and make turbines more reliable for longer, optimising energy production.

ONYX Insight is part of the Macquarie Group. Macquarie is a global financial services group operating in 34 markets in asset management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory services, capital raising and principal investment. The diversity of the Macquarie Group operations combined with a strong capital position and robust risk management framework has contributed to a 54 year-record of unbroken profitability.

For any further information, or to understand our products and services better, please feel free to look through our website: https://onyxinsight.com/

ONYX Insight are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.