Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to OEFR's senior stakeholders, including technology and product leaders.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships, translate Kraken's technical vision into outcomes that resonate with executive priorities, and represent the technical perspective in roadmap discussions, steercos, executive briefings, and planning sessions.
- Provide deep architectural guidance to connect OEFR's ecosystem with Kraken's platform.
- Guide system design, integrations, and configuration aligned with both client and Kraken architectural principles.
- Drive solution design for scalability and long-term maintainability, and identify opportunities to unlock value through feature adoption and platform capabilities.
- Facilitate product rollouts, upgrades, and change management to minimise disruption.
- Identify risks within the account and develop mitigation strategies.
- Be the hands-on technical presence that drives account momentum in the everyday.
- Triage and manage technical incidents in partnership with support and engineering teams.
- Guide configuration and usage decisions to ensure best practices.
- Proactively drive topics to resolution, without requiring escalation.
- Manage co-development efforts and joint technical initiatives.
- Align OEFR's and Kraken's roadmaps, advocate for client needs internally, and feed actionable insight back to product and engineering.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a customer-facing technical role - such as Technical Account Manager, Customer Success Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Enterprise Architect
- Ideally in SaaS, cloud services, or complex enterprise environments.
- Strong technical background with hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure, APIs, and system integrations; experience with Python, Django, or similar is a plus.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and support technical implementations from design through to live, translating complex concepts into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with energy, utility, or infrastructure clients
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; able to navigate ambiguity, prioritise effectively, and drive issues to resolution.
- Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail and a proactive, client-centric approach.
- Highly effective at building and sustaining relationships across different levels of seniority, from day-to-day technical contacts to senior client stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment across multiple concurrent priorities.
- Fluent in French and English (the role involves daily client engagement in French alongside a largely English-speaking internal team).
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline - or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience in the French energy market - including familiarity with its regulatory landscape, market structure, or key industry players.
- Background in energy retail, energy-tech, or utility transformation programmes.
- Experience leading or contributing to customer migrations or large-scale platform rollouts.
- Familiarity with Kraken's platform or OPS (Operations Platform Software) model.
- Experience mentoring junior TAMs or contributing to the development of an account management practice.
Additional Information
- Fluent in French and English (the role involves daily client engagement in French alongside a largely English-speaking internal team).
- Applicants must have the right to work in the country that they're applying to, at the time of application.
- We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at inclusion@kraken.tech.