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About the Role

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for evolving the architecture, tooling, and operational capabilities that power Trainline’s supply ecosystem. This is a strategic leadership role focused on platform modernization, organizational scalability, and the adoption of AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering efficiency and operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers, supporting growth and development through coaching, feedback, and inclusive leadership practices.
• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for how supply is integrated, managed, and scaled across the Trainline platform.
• Own end-to-end delivery across the Supply Platform domain, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable operational and business impact.
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Commercial, and Supply stakeholders to align technical strategy with evolving customer, platform, and business needs.
• Drive the adoption of AI-enabled and agentic workflows across engineering and operational processes, identifying practical opportunities to improve scalability, automation, and efficiency.
• Lead large-scale platform modernization and architectural transformation initiatives, balancing long-term strategic investment with pragmatic delivery priorities.
• Provide technical leadership across platform architecture, APIs, system interactions, and operational workflows, helping teams make effective and sustainable technical decisions.
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting resilient, observable, and scalable systems, while fostering a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and operational improvement.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading multiple engineering teams and delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives within platform, distributed systems, or large-scale technology environments.
• A strong track record of building inclusive, high-performing engineering organisations and developing future engineering leaders through coaching and mentorship.
• Experience leading platform modernisation, architectural transformation, or large-scale technical change programmes within operationally complex environments.
• The ability to balance long-term technical strategy with pragmatic delivery, operational excellence, and evolving business priorities.
• Experience applying AI, automation, or intelligent workflow capabilities within engineering or operational domains, with an interest in how emerging technologies can improve scalability and efficiency.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Data Science, Commercial, and Operational teams.
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and complexity, bringing clarity, alignment, and momentum across teams and initiatives.
• Experience working with APIs, distributed systems, platform architectures, or integration-heavy environments, and ideally exposure to platform engineering, workflow orchestration, or operational automation capabilities.

Skills

• AI
• Automation
• Intelligent workflow capabilities
• APIs
• Distributed systems
• Platform architectures
• Integration
• Platform engineering
• Workflow orchestration
• Operational automation

Location

• London
• Paris
• Barcelona
• Milan
• Edinburgh
• Madrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Work from abroad policy

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• Private healthcare & dental insurance
• Generous work from abroad policy
• 2-for-1 share purchase plans
• EV Scheme
• Extra festive time off
• Excellent family-friendly benefits
• Clear career paths
• Transparent pay bands
• Personal learning budgets
• Regular learning days

About the Company

• Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
• Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales.
• Collaborates with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries.
• A FTSE 250 company driven by over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities.
• Focus on growth in the UK and Europe.

Equal Opportunity

• We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.