Senior Engineering Manager, Supply
Trainline · London, United Kingdom · 4mo ago
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
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
More information:
Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.
Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:
💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
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.
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!