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.