Trainline
Senior Engineering Manager, Supply
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · London
Employer listed it 4 months ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 4 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
£120,000 to £122,000
Location
Hybrid · London
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around London, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "London, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About us
At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. 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.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.
Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.
We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.
Introducing the Trainline Supply Platform & AI Enablement Team 👋
The Supply Platform & AI Enablement team sits within Trainline’s Core Experience pillar and plays a critical role in shaping how supply is integrated, managed, and scaled across the Trainline platform. As rail liberalisation accelerates across Europe and new operators continue to enter the market, the team is focused on building scalable, resilient, and future-ready platform capabilities that enable Trainline to onboard and manage supply efficiently across rail and coach markets.
As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for evolving the architecture, tooling, and operational capabilities that power Trainline’s supply ecosystem. This is a highly strategic leadership role focused on platform modernisation, organisational scalability, and the adoption of AI-enabled and agentic workflows to improve engineering efficiency and operational effectiveness. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Commercial, and Supply stakeholders, you will help shape the long-term technical vision for the domain while fostering high-performing, collaborative teams that can confidently navigate complexity, growth, and change.
In this role as the Senior Engineering Manager, Supply Platform & AI Enablement, you will...🚄
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 modernisation 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
We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍
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
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
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Trainline, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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