You have a passion for technology and want to make the world a greener place?
Then become a playmaker (f/m/d) and join our team as Head of Domain Observability (f/m/d) at E.ON Digital Technology.
We play a key role in shaping the energy transition by leading E.ON’s digital transformation across Europe. We explore new paths by developing ideas, breaking new ground, making visions reality, and bringing new technologies to life. We deliver sustainable technology solutions because…
…it’s on us to make new energy work!
The Team – your impact
Global Technology Platforms (GTP) is part of Technology Group. GTP builds, maintains, and continuously improves global scalable platforms for the E.ON group enabling product teams to focus on value-adding products built on top of efficient, resilient, and highly automated platforms. As part of our transition towards a product centric cloud-operating model (Nautilus), we will continue our close alignment and cooperation with the Business and Business IT colleagues, to make full use of all capabilities and technologies providing a stable foundation and end-to-end global platforms.
Within GTP we are seeking a highly skilled and visionary leader (f/m/d) to join our team as Head of Domain Observability (f/m/d). This role is pivotal in driving the strategic direction, technological advancement, and operational excellence of the overall Integration & Process Automation domain area. The successful candidate (f/m/d) will lead a diverse team of around 10-15 professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, efficiency, and collaboration and will report to the Integration & Process Automation domain area head.
Your Role – meaningful & rewarding
- You are responsible for the domain “Observability” in the domain area “Integration & Process Automation”, providing visionary leadership, coaching and support in specific technologies and innovations
- Develop and implement strategic plans to align domain goals with overall business objectives, enhance operational workflows and processes
- Provide continuous feedback, conduct performance evaluations and develop the individual members of your team
- Transforming structures into our new operating model (Nautilus), driving agility and DevOps practices and culture together with your team
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Responsibility for the product team Lumos, to ensure the Lumos adoption across E.ONs IT product landscape
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Ensure the strategic decommissioning of the legacy monitoring platforms “Splunk” and “AppDynamics” by end of 2025 in close alignment with using business product teams
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Follow and assess new trends and technologies in observability
Your Profile – authentic & open-minded
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Proven experience in a technology leadership role and operational responsibilities, combined with a passion for data and observability
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Ability to collaborate with business leaders on all levels to understand requirements, how they translate into technical capabilities in order to resolve prioritization conflicts and ensure alignment with strategic objects
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Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
- Challenger mindset, able to throw old ways of working overboard and openness to new topics combined with out-of-the-box thinking
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Experience in change management and guiding teams and individuals through their change journey
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You have experience and knowledge in cloud native technology stacks, Infrastructure as a Code, automation technologies as well as serverless technologies
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Fluent in English
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Willingness to travel
Our Benefits – smart & useful
- Enjoy flexibility: You can combine coming to the office and working from home flexibly. It’s even possible to go on workation for up to 20 days per year within Europe.
- Advance your development: We grow and we want you to grow with us. Learning on the job, exchanging with others, or taking part in an individual training – our learning culture enables you to bring your personal and professional development to the next level.
- Get connected: Take the opportunity to engage in our Digital Empowerment Communities for collaboration, learning, and network building.
- Recharge your battery: You have 30 days of paid vacation per year plus Christmas and New Year's Eve off. Your battery still needs charging? You can exchange parts of your salary for more paid vacation or you can take a sabbatical.
- Elevate your mobility: From car and bike leasing offers to a subsidised Deutschland-Ticket – your way is our way.
- Think ahead: With our company pension scheme and a great insurance package we take care of your future.
- This is by far not all… We are looking forward to speaking with you about further benefits during the hiring process.
Do you have questions?
For further information please contact Agneta Lierl, agneta.lierl@eon.com.
Please understand that for data protection reasons we can only accept applications submitted via our portal. Unfortunately, we cannot consider application documents that reach us by email or post.
What you need to know:
Job Req ID: 231756
Contract type: Fixed Term
Working time: Part or Full time
Company: E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
Location: Essen, Hannover, Würzburg, Berlin, München, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Regensburg
Function area: IT/Digital
Inclusion
It is important to us that people with disabilities have access to a fair application process, providing them with an opportunity to shine. Therefore, our representative body for severely disabled people will be included in the process from an early stage. Please let us know via the application form if you require technical or organisational adjustments during the application process. We will strive to make the required aids available.
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