Director, Quality & Release Engineering

About the role

This role will lead the transformation of the quality engineering function from manual oversight to an AI-assisted product development lifecycle. The Director will own quality and release governance at the programme level, manage an engineering team focused on automation and test data, and set standards for QA leads across delivery streams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the quality strategy across delivery streams, aligned to programme objectives and client SLAs
• Define and maintain release governance frameworks including release readiness criteria, risk acceptance, and sign-off authorities
• Set quality standards and coverage expectations and ensure QA leads translate these into domain-level test strategies
• Drive defect governance at programme level including internal and client-facing SLA compliance
• Directly manage a team of engineers building and maintaining bespoke automation tooling, leveraging AI and LLM capabilities
• Own the test data management strategy including AI-assisted synthetic data generation and environment data integrity
• Lead the transformation of QA practice from script maintenance to intelligent, risk-based, AI-assisted quality engineering

Required skills

• Quality Engineering
• Release Governance
• AI-assisted automation
• Test Data Management
• CI/CD
• LLMs
• Change Management

Nice to have

• Energy sector experience
• Utilities sector experience
• Billing systems

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading a QA or quality engineering function of significant scale
• Experience managing engineers building tooling or automation infrastructure
• Experience delivering a meaningful QA transformation
• Experience owning release governance in a complex, multi-stream delivery context

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• 5% Flex Fund
• 26 days holiday
• Progressive Leave Policy
• Personal Learning Budget
• Home Office Budget

About the Company

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. The company orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids to make clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive.