Solutions Architect

Job title: Senior Solutions Architect 

Location: London, Bristol or Edinburgh (Including hybrid)

Part time available?: Yes

Salary: £78,000 - £108,500

Closing Date: Friday 14th February 2025

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations!

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You'll be joining the technology area of Kaluza. We are a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology working at an extraordinary scale. As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and ensuring best practices across the board of the engineering community. 

What will I be doing?

This is a technical architecture role that will help develop Kaluza’s external integration architecture with the goal of giving Kaluza’s clients the greatest opportunity for success building against the Kaluza platform.

This role will accomplish this by:

• Working with existing Kaluza clients to help them design a workable solution architecture for changes and/or new requirements that they have. You will understand their requirements and needs. You’ll use your knowledge of the platform and its APIs as well as wider architecture best practices to set them up for success. No two projects will be the same, you may help them or others from within Kaluza build early prototypes, connect them to the right stakeholder, architect a solution or something else. This will be a varied role that will flex your technical skills, customer management and knowledge of Kaluza as a platform.

• Helping to define the solution architecture for new Kaluza client engagements. This would include delivering technical sessions so clients understand the Kaluza platform, gain deep understanding of the clients architecture to design optimal integration architectures, help run client PoCs, respond to RFPs and visit client sites. Kaluza’s sales pipeline is healthy and varied so this might require travel in the UK, Europe and beyond.

• Being involved in emerging Kaluza platform product development and our internal architecture function. You will bring the voice of the customer from a technical architecture perspective, also your varied knowledge of clients architectures and general best practice will help to shape our future product design.

Is this the job for me?

This role is well-suited for both experienced Solution Architects, or those in a similar role (e.g. software engineering) ready to take the next step.

Ideally you will have/be:

• Experience architecting software systems to solve problems, especially those that involve distributed systems and integration with third parties.
• A strong focus on customer and client outcomes. The ability to work with and communicate to technical stakeholders.
• Technical experience in building and architecting systems that have included at least some of:
• Modern front-end frameworks
• API technologies including GraphQL and Webhooks
• Authorisation and Authentication systems (IDPs)
• CRMs
• Order management and fulfilment systems
• A willingness to develop a broad understanding of the Kaluza platform  through building an internal network of engineers and product folk.
• Experience on building early-stage, innovative products and how to cultivate them iteratively with a clear customer-focus.

This role may involve international travel, up to 25%.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

At Kaluza, we empower our people to have choices around where and when they work - flexible working arrangements can be discussed for all of our roles. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team for more info.

We’re keen to meet people with varied backgrounds - our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure… we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.