Head of Core System Development

Role overview

The Head of Core Systems Development leads the teams responsible for Allego’s most business‑critical platforms, ensuring predictable delivery, technical coherence, and long‑term system health.

You lead a multi‑disciplinary team (15+ people) consisting of Product Managers, Architects, and Software Engineers, and you work closely with Enterprise Architecture and key business stakeholders to ensure our platforms are stable, scalable, cost‑efficient, and future‑ready.

A central part of the role is people leadership: building a high‑performing engineering team through coaching, mentoring, talent development, and continuously improving modern engineering and delivery practices - including the responsible adoption of AI‑supported development.

What you’ll do

• Lead the Core Systems Development team, ensuring predictable delivery and operational stability of business‑critical platforms.

• Manage and develop a large, multi‑disciplinary team (developers, architects, product managers) with a strong focus on career development, feedback culture, and team health.

• Drive technical coherence, quality, and cost efficiency across the core systems landscape in close collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and domain architects.

• Strengthen agile execution using Scrum and SAFe / Agile Release Trains, enabling cross‑team planning, dependency management, and continuous improvement.

• Raise engineering excellence across QA, automation, reliability, and secure-by-design practices, and promote the responsible use of AI in engineering workflows (e.g., productivity, quality, and learning).

• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to provide delivery realism, technical insight, and risk transparency to shared prioritization and decision‑making.

• Provide strategic leadership across our core product and platform domains, including areas such as CPMS integration & orchestration, OCPP broker & edge connectivity, billing & invoicing, roaming & interoperability, public/partner APIs, and tariffs/offers/policy engines, supported by enabling capabilities like platform/SRE, quality engineering, architecture/standards, and security engineering.

What we’re looking for

Experience & leadership

• 10+ years in software engineering and/or platform development, ideally including business‑critical systems.

• Proven success leading a large development team (around 15–25 people), including line management, coaching, and organizational design.

• Strong background in delivery leadership with Scrum and experience operating in SAFe environments (ARTs, PI planning, cross‑team delivery).

• Experience with budget responsibility and a pragmatic focus on cost efficiency and sustainable delivery.

Technical credibility

• A solid engineering foundation (ideally you have been a developer earlier in your career) and the ability to challenge and support architects and engineers constructively - without needing to be hands‑on coding every day.

• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automation, quality engineering, observability/reliability, and secure engineering.

• Interest and experience in AI‑assisted development and modern dev-support tooling, applied responsibly in real teams.

Mindset & collaboration

• A people‑centric leader with a visible, authentic leadership style: cooperative, approachable, and able to build trust across disciplines.

• Clear communicator who can bridge technical and business perspectives, align stakeholders, and move decisions forward.

• Pragmatic and structured: you can make trade‑offs explicit and lead teams through complexity with calm and clarity.

Nice to have

• Experience in eMobility, charging, energy, or adjacent platform ecosystems (e.g., interoperability/roaming, billing, partner integrations).

• Familiarity with charge point and backend domains such as OCPP, platform integrations, or high‑availability transactional systems.

• Leadership training and/or relevant agile/leadership certifications.

Join us

You’ll shape the engineering team behind mission‑critical platforms in a fast‑growing, real‑world tech domain. This role has high impact: you will improve system stability and delivery reliability while growing people and modernizing ways of working - including thoughtful adoption of AI to increase team effectiveness.

We offer you a challenging job in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment. A competitive salary, and a good package of secondary conditions. At Allego you choose your own challenges, we will make education and training available if necessary to keep driving forward.

If you are interested in working at Allego we look forward to receiving your resume and motivation letter via the direct link.

Please do not contact us if you are an agency. We understand that you, above anyone else, have the best candidates, but we count on it that those candidates will know where to find us themselves.

We do not provide relocation.