IT Area Leader (ITAL) (m/f)

Who we are

At E.ON, we are shaping the future of energy. As one of Europe’s leading energy companies, we operate across multiple markets with a clear ambition: to drive the energy transition and deliver sustainable, reliable and affordable solutions to our customers.

In the Czech Republic, nearly 3,500 colleagues contribute to our success every day. We offer a stable and fair working environment and are proud to be regularly recognized as a TOP EMPLOYER. At the same time, we are transforming how we work – becoming agile, more collaborative, and closer to our customers. We aim to respond faster to change, simplify our processes, and continuously improve the value we deliver.

Your role

The IT Area Leader (ITAL) is a senior technology leader accountable for the end-to-end technology landscape of a Tribe. The role ensures that the Tribe’s products and services are built on scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions that enable business strategy and customer outcomes. Together with the Tribe Lead, the IT Area Leader forms the leadership of the Tribe, ensuring strong alignment between business priorities and technology capabilities. The IT Area Leader owns the Tribe’s technical architecture, engineering standards, and technology delivery performance while maintaining high levels of operational stability and quality.

Key responsibilities

• Define, evolve, and own the Tribe’s technology strategy in alignment with enterprise IT strategy and architecture principles. 
• Ensure that all solutions delivered by product teams comply with architectural standards, security policies, and non-functional requirements (reliability, performance, resilience, data protection). 
• Oversee system architecture and technical design across the Tribe’s products, platforms, and integrations, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. 
• Provide governance over engineering standards, development practices, and technical quality across product teams. 
• Ensure sustainable and reliable technology delivery by monitoring engineering productivity, delivery health, and system stability. 
• Coordinate and manage technology dependencies across product teams, other Tribes, and platform or shared-service teams. 
• Work closely with the Tribe Lead to translate business strategy and product vision into feasible, high-quality, and scalable technology solutions. 
• Focus on people development, capability building, and allocation of engineering talent. 
• Promote a strong engineering culture based on ownership, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement. 
• Take accountability for the operational health of systems within the Tribe, balancing innovation and change with stability and sustainability. 

Who we are looking for

• A technology leader with a modern engineering mindset: You bring strong expertise in modern engineering and architecture. You help shape the Tribe’s technology vision and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and built with quality in mind.
• A delivery-focused engineering leader: You drive reliable and efficient delivery, set clear technical standards, remove blockers, and continuously improve development and DevOps practices.
• A systems thinker with architectural insight: You understand complex systems and their dependencies. You ensure alignment with enterprise architecture while balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• A trusted partner to business and product: You collaborate closely with business and product leaders, translating their needs into scalable technology solutions and supporting informed, data-driven decisions.
• A guardian of quality and governance: You ensure adherence to standards, security, and non-functional requirements. You promote reliability, quality, and strong engineering discipline across teams.
• A builder of engineering culture and community: You develop technical talent and capabilities, foster collaboration and continuous learning, and contribute to a strong, connected engineering culture within the Tribe.
• Someone who thrives in complexity and change: You lead effectively in dynamic environments, make sound decisions under uncertainty, and balance stability with a drive for innovation.
• Someone with strong ownership and accountability: You take full ownership of technology outcomes, ensuring delivery, system stability, and quality, with a consistent focus on results and execution.
• Someone with C1/C2 Czech and English proficiency.

Why it is great to work at E.ON

• We offer stability you can rely on in the long term.
• People feel good working here – we rank among the TOP 5 employers on Atmoskop.
• Every year, we credit CZK 21,620 to your personal benefits account, which you can use as you like – for culture, experiences, holidays, dental care, or a Multisport card.
• Every colleague is entitled to a performance‑based bonus linked to agreed targets and work performance evaluation.
• Health and safety come first – you have access to the uLékaře medical service and a company psychologist.
• You get 5 weeks of vacation plus additional days off depending on your years of service.
• We provide paid leave for personal and family events beyond the Labour Code (e.g., childbirth, wedding, moving).
• We value people who help others – we reward unpaid blood donation with additional days off beyond legal requirements, and we offer 2 paid days for volunteering activities.
• We contribute to your pension scheme or long‑term investment product (DIP), and we also support your meals through a meal allowance of CZK 115 per working day.
• Our standard working week is 37.5 hours. If the position allows it, working hours are flexible – sometimes you may need to stay a bit longer, other times you can leave earlier.
• For roles where it is possible, we offer home office options.
• Our employees and their family members can benefit from discounted mobile tariffs.
• We support parents returning from maternity or parental leave with a financial contribution of CZK 80,040. Colleagues with disabilities receive a higher contribution to their personal benefits account depending on the level of disability – up to CZK 20,000 extra per year. 

What else you need to know?

Position ID: 244820 
Starting date: upon agreement  

Are you interested in this job and wondering where to send your CV in English?

Just click on the blue Apply Now box and create an online application in our database. We will get back to you as soon as possible! If you have any questions, you can contact: Zuzana Pánková, zuzana.pankova@eon.cz.

At E.ON, we pride ourselves on fair conditions, a pleasant working environment, respect and trust.

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work together every day on technical innovations that make our customers' lives easier. We are the first major energy company to focus intensely on the future of energy through power grids, renewable energy and customer solutions.