Key Notes
Trainline Partner Solutions leadership spans multiple engineering teams supporting white-label retailing for Train Operating Companies and Digital Pay as You Go. The role seeks significant multi-team engineering leadership in B2B or platform environments, distributed-systems or microservices experience and strong stakeholder management; managing managers is preferred. Trainline’s hybrid model requires at least 60% office attendance over a 12-week period. The role is explicitly interim.
What You'll Work On
- Lead multiple Trainline Partner Solutions engineering teams and coach engineers and managers through feedback, performance management and development.
- Own end-to-end delivery across Trainline’s white-label retailing and Digital Pay as You Go products.
- Set technical direction across system interactions, APIs and data flows while coordinating dependencies between engineering teams.
- Partner with Product, Data and Commercial stakeholders to define roadmaps aligning technical delivery with business priorities.
- Drive technical health through scalable engineering practices, monitoring, incident management and operational-excellence standards.
Why This Role Matters
- Trainline Partner Solutions’ white-label retailing and Digital Pay as You Go products span multiple teams, so coordinated technical direction determines whether changes across APIs, data flows and dependencies can be delivered coherently.
- Train Operating Company partners depend on TPS products remaining technically healthy as initiatives evolve, making monitoring, incident management and engineering-quality standards material to the reliability of those B2B services.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Significant experience leading engineering teams and complex multi-team initiatives in a B2B or platform environment is sought.
- Experience: A strong track record building high-performing teams and developing future leaders is sought.
- Technical: Experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures is sought.
- Stakeholder: Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence across technical, product and commercial domains are sought.
- Preferred: Experience managing managers or leading multiple teams is described as ideal.
- Preferred: UK rail-industry, travel-distribution or white-label B2B product experience is described as helpful.