Key Notes
Supply-platform modernisation across rail and coach markets is the strategic focus, covering architecture, APIs, operational tooling and AI-enabled engineering workflows. This London manager-of-managers vacancy publishes £120,000–£122,000 plus equity and bonus and follows the at least 60% office-attendance policy over 12 weeks. The remit spans multi-team leadership, long-term technical direction and scalable onboarding of new transport operators.
What You'll Work On
- Lead Supply Platform engineering teams and their managers, developing leaders through coaching, feedback and inclusive management practices.
- Define the long-term architecture and technical vision for integrating, managing and scaling rail and coach supply.
- Own delivery across platform modernisation, APIs and operational workflows, balancing strategic investment with pragmatic execution priorities.
- Introduce AI-enabled and agentic workflows into engineering and operations where they improve automation, scalability or efficiency.
- Coordinate Product, Data Science, Commercial and Supply stakeholders around platform needs, technical decisions and measurable outcomes.
Why This Role Matters
- Trainline’s supply platform onboards and manages rail and coach operators across European markets; scalable integration architecture affects how efficiently new operators are integrated into the platform.
- Trainline’s Supply Platform teams use platform modernisation and AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering efficiency and operational effectiveness as rail and coach supply grows.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Leading multiple engineering teams and complex initiatives in platform, distributed-system or large-scale technology environments is sought.
- Experience: Building engineering organisations and developing future leaders through coaching/mentoring is sought.
- Experience: Platform modernisation, architectural transformation or large technical change in complex operational settings is sought.
- Technical: Applying AI, automation or intelligent workflows in engineering or operations is sought.
- Technical: APIs, distributed systems, platform architecture or integration-heavy environment experience is sought.
- Preferred: Platform engineering, workflow orchestration or operational-automation exposure is ideal.