We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We’re on a mission to make the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient. With clever tech like Hive thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint. And with our new PeakSave programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.

Our nationwide team of 6,500 engineers are energy efficiency experts – offering practical ways to make homes more sustainable.

To help us achieve these ambitions, we need an experienced React/Next.js Tech Lead to join the British Gas services and solutions team.

The Role:

• Be an individual contributor to projects, creating and maintaining several customer journeys within the BG S&S estate 
• Drive innovation and mentor a agile team 
• Review and enhance existing functionality, ensuring it is performant
• Write and maintain a suite of automated tests that ensure the robustness of our system
• Ensure your services operationally sound and encourage the mantra, “you build it, you run it” 
• Work in a wider agile environment with several dynamic and highly skilled teams 
• Work with a variety of stakeholders across multiple projects 
• Provide reporting with estimation or updating the status of a project 

Key Accountabilities :

Estimation 

• You will be asked to provide high level resource and time estimates for delivering projects. You will then work closely with product teams to ensure work is prioritised optimally for delivery

Design 

• You will work closely with the product team, as well as other stakeholders including solutions and platform architects, to ensure that feasible requirements are accurately gathered and translated into trackable pieces of work

Delivery And Operational Excellence  

• You will lead your team to deliver projects on time and functional. All solutions will be robust, reliable and cost efficient. As the owner of your services, you are responsible for their operational excellence
• If there are any customer incidents, you will work closely with the Support Team and the service managers to ensure suitable comms and reporting is in place until the issue is resolved
• Any security concerns will be prioritised and dealt with in a timely manner. 

Leadership 

• You will lead a team and are responsible for ensuring that they are fully trained, are meeting their objectives and goals and have a full plate load of work
• You will mentor them in a way that they can continue to grow and keep up to date with the fast-paced evolving landscape of technology. You will encourage your team to investigate and adopt the latest technology trends

Experience :

• Highly Experienced with ReactJS and at least one other JavaScript framework 
• Highly Experienced with Typescript and CSS
• Highly Experienced with Git or other DVCSs 
• Experienced with test frameworks at different levels of integration 
• Experience of working in an agile environment 
• Experience in designing robust, highly scalable systems
• Gathering requirements 
• Experience in delivering projects on time and on budget
• Extensive experience in Software Development, and previous experience as a people manager

The Company Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.