Director, Platform Operations and Support

Description Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company, guided by a simple yet powerful vision to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal and professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their careers they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards. The positionRES is establishing a Director of Platform Operations and Support to own how the company runs, supports and rationalises its global application and platform estate. Reporting to the Vice President of Global IT Operations, the role sets the strategy and the standard for technology operations across every RES business and every territory in which RES works.

The estate is broad. It spans the enterprise platforms every colleague depends on, the corporate systems that run finance, people and procurement, the commercial and project systems behind development and construction, and the operational systems that keep renewable assets producing. It reaches from Group functions through Development, Construction and Engineering to Services, across the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, France and the wider international footprint.

The role is the single point of accountability for all of it. It consolidates support that has historically been distributed across business functions and geographies into one global function, and holds it to a consistent standard of availability, security, cost and user experience.

The defining challenge is rationalisation. Much of the estate grew up locally, and it carries duplication, divergent ways of working and cost that RES no longer needs. This role owns the agenda to simplify it — deciding what is standardised, what is consolidated, what is retired and what is genuinely worth sustaining — and carrying those decisions with the business leaders affected by them.

This is a leadership role, not an oversight one. It sets direction and holds the standard, and it stays close enough to the operational detail to lead credibly through a major incident, a difficult supplier or a contested retirement.

Success is measured on the availability and stability of the estate, the cost of running it, the quality of what is accepted into service, and the removal of duplication across a portfolio that grew up locally.

It can be based in the United Kingdom, or Spain. Spanish is advantageous.

The role requires domestic and international travel of approximately 15–25%, principally between the United Kingdom, the United States and Spain.

Accountabilities Set and own the strategy for how RES operates, supports and rationalises its application and platform estate, and the multi-year roadmap that takes it to the target state.

Own the global application rationalisation agenda: maintain the portfolio view of what RES runs and what it costs, and take the decisions to standardise, consolidate, retire or sustain — with Enterprise Architecture, and with the business leaders whose systems are affected.

Chair the application portfolio governance forum, the body through which standardise, consolidate, retire and sustain decisions are taken, recorded and tracked through to…