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Business Technology Manager

Location: Glasgow | Full-time

Industry: Renewable & Sustainable Energy / Infrastructure

Company size: UK arm of a Northern European energy group

Salary: £80,000

TechNET has partnered with a rapidly growing sustainable energy and infrastructure business to appoint a Business Technology Manager for its UK operations.

This organisation is a key contributor to the energy transition, developing and operating district energy, renewable heat and industrial energy assets across the UK. Backed by long-term investment and experiencing continued growth, the business is strengthening its UK technology leadership to support scale, resilience and digital enablement.

Role & Opportunity

Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, the Business Technology Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping a secure, reliable and future-ready technology landscape for the UK business.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with responsibility across IT and Operational Technology, acting as the strategic bridge between UK leadership and Group IT. You will shape the local technology roadmap in line with group architecture and cyber standards, while ensuring technology actively enables business growth, operational excellence and data-led decision-making.

The role is operational from day one, with strong support from Group IT. Over time, you will take on greater autonomy and strategic ownership across all UK technology domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the UK Business Technology Roadmap, aligned to Group architecture, cybersecurity standards and industry best practice
• Translate UK growth and operational plans into clear technology, data, OT and digital initiatives
• Build and govern the UK IT/OT project portfolio, including budgets, delivery plans and benefits tracking
• Oversee all IT and OT operations across UK sites, covering infrastructure, connectivity, security and end-user support
• Manage complex vendor and service-provider ecosystems, ensuring strong SLAs, performance and commercial control
• Act as the primary UK interface with Group IT across infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms and digital systems
• Ensure adherence to Group policies, standards and security frameworks across UK operations
• Deliver projects using appropriate methodologies (gate-based, waterfall and agile), with clear governance and milestones
• Monitor service performance, risk, resilience and continuous improvement
• Support adoption of data, automation, AI and digital solutions to drive efficiency and operational performance.

About You

• Proven experience in an IT Manager or Business Technology leadership role, with operational ownership
• Strong background in IT programme, portfolio or service delivery within multi-vendor environments
• Solid understanding of IT and OT landscapes, including connectivity and exposure to industrial or SCADA systems
• Experience delivering projects using recognised methodologies (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile); certifications preferred
• Strong grounding in ITIL service management; certification desirable
• Demonstrated success managing vendors, contracts, SLAs and service performance
• Commercially minded, able to translate technology into clear business value
• Experience in energy, utilities, industrial operations or infrastructure-heavy sectors is advantageous
• Confident communicator, comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and leadership teams

Personal Attributes

• Fast learner with the ability to quickly master new technology domains
• Curious and forward-thinking about technology, data, OT, cyber and digital transformation
• Proactive, accountable and delivery-focused, with a strong ownership mindset
• Comfortable operating in complex environments and creating clarity
• Able to bridge technical and commercial perspectives to influence decision-making
• Encourages innovation, continuous improvement and disciplined execution

• Act as the Workday SME for Time Tracking and Absence, supporting operations and system performance.
• Own and configure Time Tracking & Absence components including:
  • Time Off plans, leave plans, eligibility rules
  • Work schedules / period schedules / time entry
  • Time calculation rules and validations
  • Absence business processes and approvals
• Provide end-to-end support for Time & Absence issues, including:
  • Root-cause analysis, fix deployment, and stakeholder communication
  • Managing priorities across BAU support and change activity
• Lead or support Workday change requests:
  • Requirement gathering
  • Solution design/configuration
  • UAT and regression testing
  • Release communications and documentation
• Ensure effective alignment between Workday Time/Absence and Payroll:
  • Partner with payroll teams to ensure accuracy of outputs, rules, and cut-offs
  • Support audits and compliance requirements
• Develop and maintain:
  • Functional documentation / config workbooks
  • Process guides and training materials
• Deliver training/knowledge transfer to HR and operational users.
• Identify opportunities to improve user experience, data quality, automation, and process efficiency.

• Strong recent hands-on experience as a Workday Consultant / HRIS Specialist focused on Time Tracking and Absence.
• Proven configuration expertise across:
  • Time Off & Leave Plans
  • Work Schedules / Period Schedules
  • Time Tracking setup
  • Validations & condition rules
  • Business Process configuration
• Confident troubleshooting complex Time/Absence scenarios in live Workday tenants.
• Solid understanding of how Time/Absence flows into Payroll (UK knowledge preferred).
• Strong reporting capability for Time/Absence metrics (Workday reports, calculated fields).
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management at all levels.

• Experience across broader Workday HCM modules (Core HCM, Security, Reporting, Learning, Recruiting etc.).
• Integration exposure linked to Time/Absence (EIBs, RaaS, time-to-payroll outputs).
• Workday Pro certifications.

• A confident, delivery-focused contractor who can “pick up and run” quickly.
• Analytical and detail-driven, particularly around rules, schedules, and eligibility.
• Collaborative and pragmatic, able to balance business needs with system best practice.
• Passionate about making Workday simple, compliant, and user-friendly.

Staff Java Backend Engineer

Location: Hybrid - London OR Manchester 

Job Type: Permanent | Full-Time

Salary: £95,000 - £110,000 + Benefits

We're partnering with a leading UK digital banking platform as they expand their engineering organisation with strategic senior hires. They're seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling the distributed systems that sit at the heart of their platform.

This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex architectural problems, driving technical maturity, and guiding engineering direction across multiple services and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of backend systems built with Java 11+ & Spring Boot
• Architect distributed, event-driven systems that support high-volume transactional workloads
• Develop robust, well-typed service contracts and define API boundaries across domains
• Set technical standards around scalability, resilience, observability, testing, and automation
• Provide engineering leadership across squads, mentoring senior engineers and influencing roadmaps
• Guide system design discussions around concurrency, fault tolerance, transactional consistency, and recovery strategies
• Drive initiatives that improve performance, reliability, and platform scalability
• Work closely with product and technical leadership to align long-term architectural direction

Skills & Experience

• Extensive backend engineering experience with Java (11/17+) and Spring Boot
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Strong experience with Kafka or equivalent message brokers
• Proven ability to reason about complex systems: idempotency, locking, consistency models, failure modes, and scaling patterns
• Experience designing system-wide architecture or leading migrations/refactors
• Strong influence skills — able to challenge ideas, improve standards, and support engineering teams
• Background working in high-scale environments (fintech, payments, ecommerce, cloud-native platforms)
• Passion for engineering excellence and driving technical direction

What's on Offer

• Modern engineering culture (automation, TDD, pairing where useful)
• Real ownership and the opportunity to influence technical direction
• Work on a platform with high scale, strong technical challenges, and significant user impact
• Supportive environment that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement

If you're interested in learning more about the role, team structure, or engineering culture, feel free to reach out for an initial conversation.