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About the Role

Data is central to how Just Eat Takeaway.com builds products, serves customers, and enables smarter decisions. This role leads the evolution of Mobius, our next-generation real-time data platform, and shapes data access, ownership, and usage across the technology organization. The position involves leading a multidisciplinary organization, scaling a platform with a "Platform as a Product" mindset, and championing a federated data mesh architecture. It requires combining technical leadership with organizational design to build high-performing teams, influence platform adoption, and shape the future of data, addressing strategic problems around data governance and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Lead, grow and develop a high-performing organisation of Technology Managers, Platform Engineers and Data Engineers, creating an environment where teams can thrive.
Own the strategy, delivery and operational excellence of Mobius, ensuring it remains a reliable, scalable and high-performing real-time data platform.
Champion a Platform as a Product mindset, continuously improving the developer experience through intuitive, self-service platform capabilities.
Partner with Engineering, Product and Domain leaders to drive adoption of data platform capabilities and federated data mesh principles across the organisation.
Build strong relationships across Product & Technology, influencing strategic decisions and aligning platform roadmaps without direct authority.
Define organisational structures, delivery roadmaps and engineering priorities that enable teams to scale effectively while maintaining high engineering standards.
Coach, mentor and develop Technology Managers, creating clear accountability, succession planning and leadership capability across the organisation.
Drive continuous improvements in platform reliability, scalability, performance and operational efficiency through modern engineering practices.
Collaborate with cloud and technology partners to maximise platform capabilities while ensuring responsible management of infrastructure investment.
Measure success through platform adoption, developer experience, operational excellence and engineering outcomes, using data to continuously improve performance.

Requirements

Proven experience leading and scaling large engineering organisations, including managing Technology Managers and building high-performing teams.
Strong engineering background across Platform Engineering, Developer Platforms or Cloud Infrastructure, with experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
Experience building or operating modern data platforms, event-driven architectures or real-time streaming platforms.
A product mindset, with experience treating internal platforms as products and improving developer experience through self-service capabilities.
Ability to influence senior engineering and product stakeholders, building strong partnerships across complex organisations.
Experience defining engineering strategy, organisational design and delivery models that enable teams to scale effectively.
Strong understanding of modern cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, platform engineering principles and engineering best practices.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
A pragmatic, delivery-focused approach with the ability to balance long-term platform strategy alongside operational excellence.
A collaborative leadership style that champions our values of Lead, Deliver and Care, developing people, raising engineering standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

Platform Engineering
Developer Platforms
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Platforms
Event-driven architectures
Real-time streaming platforms
Cloud technologies
Infrastructure as code
Platform engineering principles
Engineering best practices
Communication skills
Technical leadership
Organizational design

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Head of Engineering
Senior leadership

About the Company

Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online delivery platform.
Our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
We connect tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Our values are Lead, Deliver and Care.

Equal Opportunity

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com.
We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.