Director, Quality & Release Engineering

About the role

The Director of Quality & Release Engineering will lead the transformation of the quality function from manual oversight to an AI-assisted, risk-based engineering model. This role involves owning quality and release governance at the programme level, managing an engineering team focused on automation and test data, and setting standards for QA leads across delivery streams. The successful candidate will drive cultural change, ensuring high-quality outcomes while balancing delivery velocity with release stability.

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
• Directly manage a team of engineers building and maintaining bespoke automation tooling, leveraging AI and LLM capabilities
• Lead, develop, and performance-manage QA leads embedded across domains
• Lead the transformation of QA practice from script maintenance to intelligent, risk-based, AI-assisted quality engineering
• Own the release quality process end-to-end, including environment strategy, regression coverage, go/no-go decisions, and post-release monitoring

Required skills

• Quality Engineering
• Release Governance
• AI
• LLMs
• Automation Frameworks
• CI/CD
• Test Strategy
• Test Data Management
• Change Management

Nice to have

• Energy sector experience
• Utilities sector experience
• Billing systems
• Observability
• Production monitoring

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
• Climate Action app access
• Free Mortgage Advice
• Eye Tests
• Retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund

About the Company

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, the company makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.