Irfan Rizvi
Senior Engineering Manager @Ocado Technology
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Engineering Manager @Ocado Technology
Welwyn Garden City, GB
Senior engineering leader accountable for Ocado’s battery and charging domain across autonomous robotic platforms, covering battery systems, automated battery swapping, static charging infrastructure, and associated fire and functional safety.Key outcomes and impact:Led multi-disciplinary mechatronics, mechanical, and software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership from discovery through in-service operation.Delivered 12–36 month product roadmaps, balancing performance, scalability, safety, uptime, and commercial constraints in live automated environments.Governed £5m+ of capital and development investment, shaping business cases and accountable for delivery outcomes.Acted as technical authority for battery, charging, and fire safety, setting design standards, validation strategies, and operational mitigations.Improved reliability and availability of battery and charging systems by driving upstream architectural changes informed by system-level RCA.Reduced operational and safety risk across live sites by embedding operability, ownership, and clear decision-making into system design.Built high-trust, high-performance engineering organisations, establishing clear accountability, technical standards, and leadership capability.
EDUCATION
Greenford high school
Gcse, Alevels
Queen Mary University of London
Beng, mechanical engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT IRFAN RIZVI
I am a senior engineering leader with experience building and scaling safety-critical battery, power, and charging systems for autonomous robotics. I lead mechatronics, mechanical, and software teams with full lifecycle ownership from discovery through in-service operation, operating with a strong focus on reliability, safety, and total cost of ownership. I’ve secured and delivered multiple multi-million-pound development programmes, set long-term technical direction, and built high-trust, high-performance engineering organisations that deliver in ambiguous environments.
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