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Team: Enterprise Security and Platforms

Salary banding: £71,240 to £102,584

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full Time

Reporting to: Director of TechOps

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Frictionless Colleague Identity

Top 3 qualities for this role: Problem-solver, Collegiate, Thorough

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Team Working for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen.

This role in a nutshell:

You'll technically lead a squad that deeply understands and executes across colleague needs, product analytics, financial targets and external industry innovation to drive strategy and operations for workforce identity platforms. Working with a squad of specialists and engineers who work on identity workflow and integration development and configuration is aligned with the digital experience requirements of over 10,000 people delivering Plan Zero.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Build a deep understanding of current and future internal stakeholder needs.
• Own the approach for how to enable all internal stakeholders to leverage digital workforce and non human identity capabilities.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for workforce IAM across the full lifecycle of digital experience keeping in line with security requirements.
• Lead a cross-functional squad of engineering and tooling specialist colleagues.
• Implement and contribute to the guardrails (especially security) in our digital experience platforms
• Champion technical standards and contribute to security standards to achieve a balance of user facing and non user facing improvements that enhance stability, efficiency and reduce risk.
• Identify opportunities for the highest leverage improvements for all stakeholders.
• Collaborate across OVOTech teams and internal stakeholders to make build vs buy recommendations for relevant parts of our digital experience.
• Partner with enablement squads across OVO to identify and leverage common building blocks.
• Determine if and how to integrate digital experience capabilities into other internal applications as needed.

You’ll be the right person for us if you have:

Advanced experience with:

• Workforce identity platform - Okta. Developer, consultant, administrator and workflow certification
• Good understanding on Google identity
• Familiarity with Azure AD/Entra and other IDPs
• Must have done at least one greenfield implementation of Okta workforce identity cloud

Familiarity with the following technologies and principles:

• Slack
• Microsoft Office
• Mobile device management (Google, Mosyle and Intune)
• Remote device management 
• SAAS observability and control
• Other collaboration tools

You’ll be a successful Lead Engineer at OVO if you…

• Communicate - clear and direct written and verbal communication is a must for any leader at OVO. A leader of this squad will be able to take technical concepts and reframe them so that different audiences can understand them.
• Exercise curiosity, judgement and humility - guiding our enablement strategy will benefit from an analytical mindset, strong systems thinking and ultimately good judgement. Our culture calls on us to make wise decisions despite ambiguity. And when you inevitably make mistakes, you learn from them and share them with others so that we can all learn.
• Bring tools and enablement experience - you will improve digital workforce identity to meet internal demand as well as build for the right end-user experience. You will bring a strong understanding of technical systems & identity platforms (particularlyOkta and google) and have experience building and maintaining tools for internal users that have a customer-centric objective.
• Build culture - you will shape a positive culture and agile mindset within the  team: an inclusive environment that engages in productive debate, rewards curiosity in understanding the business problems we’re trying to solve, and reinforces accountability to outcomes.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £71,240 and £102,584, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..