Sebastian Eggers

Head of Engineering Office @ E.ON - Raising the bar for Engineering and Open Source at E.ON Digital Technology

Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

About

Experience

  • E.ON Digital Technology (Hybrid)
    • Head of Engineering Office
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Driving overarching Engineering Principles & Standards while helping to navigate through various technologies in the space of e.g. Data & AI, Software Engineering and Platform Technologies. Drive the (compliant) Open Source adoption internally and contribution externally by positioning our OSPO (Open Source Program Office). Build communities and foster communication and collaboration across legal boundaries to encourage knowledge sharing and exchange to maximize the strength of our growing E.ONs Engineering teams.

    • Head of Digital Solutions Technology
      Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos

      Digital Solutions Technology makes sure to deliver a seamless digital experience for success and growth. Our solutions drive digital transformation, enabling efficient and effective goal achievement of our business by focusing on state-of-the-art Technology. This contains effective and tailored Technical and Business Solution Architecture across the whole portfolio as well as all kind of Software Development Practices from governance and the actual implementation skills.

    • Head of Technology - Future Energy Home IT
      Oct 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Leadership: Disciplinary Leadership for an Engineering Team (e.g. Solution Architects, Frontend & Backend Developers, DevOps & Data Engineers, ...) including the project role of Engineering Lead for our Future Energy Home IT Platform beeing responsible for the Staffing, Way of Working, Technology Roadmap etc for 15+ cross-functional Agile Teams. Business Context: Building a Platform for various use cases around Future Energy Home (e.g. transparency, home energy optimization, solar charging, dynamic price charging, ...) for solar panels, batteries, EV charging stations, heatpumps and more. Technology Focus: Oversee overall AWS cloud-native Architecture, craft and maintain Technology Roadmap, build Core Platform Engineering Team, setupDeveloper Portal, optimizite existing Technology Capabilities (e.g. IAM, API Management, ...) and many more.

  • Deputy Chief Technology Officer at powercloud
    May 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Leadership: Disciplinary leadership for "Technical Enterprise Architects" as well as for the team for API Management, Identity Management and Asynchronous Event Management (build up phase). Taking over responsibilities as deputy of the CTO. Business Context: Cloud-native SaaS platform for mid and back-office processes in the energy industry. Technology Focus: Develop and maintain Target Architecture Picture of the company together with Techology Roadmap, shape multi-tenancy strategy and the execution in cloud-native SaaS platform, concept and introduce cross-functional technical capabilities like API Management (API Gateway & API Documentation Portal), Identity & Access Management and Asynchronous Messaging / Event, setup and moderate technological Know-How Exchange and Standards (PHP & Java Foundation, Developer Guild)

  • Abteilungsleiter - Digital Development (e.kundenservice Netz GmbH - ein Unternehmen der E.ON SE) at e.kundenservice Netz GmbH
    May 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Leadership: Disciplinary leadership for a team of roughly 20 internal software developers and architects including staffing of externals freelancers/companies. Business Context: Scaled digital product development for cross-company initiatives in the energy networks sector. Technology Focus: Cloud-Native Architecture (using Microsoft Azure), Microservices, Setup of API Management (API Gateway and Developer Portal) for Energy Networks Platform, Development of a framework for Technical Quality Assurance Software Products, Core Team Member and Contributor of Application Development Guild

  • E.ON (Hannover, Niedersachsen, Deutschland)
    • Teamlead/Abteilungsleiter - Sofware Development
      Nov 2016 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Bereich: Digital IT. Digital Leadership. Technical Lead. Software Development with Focus on Backend and Integration dealing with topics like API Design & Development and Microservices.

    • Software Developer / Solution Architect
      Aug 2013 - Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Schwerpunkt: IT Architektur & Softwareentwicklung mit Java unter Anwendung moderner, leichtgewichtiger Vorgehen und Methoden (Agilität, DevOps, API Management) / Technische (Teil-) Projektleitung bzw. Produkt- und Applikationsverantwortung

    • Dualer Student - Bachelor of Science
      Aug 2010 - Jul 2013 · 3 yrs

      U.a. Java Development, Business Intelligence, Projektmanagement