Data Engineering Manager, Trainline
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
Job no longer available
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices.
Role
Who you are
- Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment
- Expert in JVM technologies (primarily Scala but ideally with a working knowledge of Clojure or Java) and a familiarity with other key languages (especially Python)
- Expert in key data engineering platforms such as Kafka or other streaming technologies, data lakes (AWS S3, Iceberg, Parquet), analytics technologies (Trinio, Spark), automation technologies (Airflow, ML Flow) and data governance (DataHub)
- People management and technical leadership experience
- Are passionate about agile software delivery with a track record of leading effective agile and lean software teams
- A consistent background in software development in high volume environments
- Have a strong background in Dev Ops, deploying, managing and maintaining services using Docker, Terraform and AWS CLI tools to achieve infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments
- Have an excellent working knowledge of AWS services (EMR, ECS, IAM, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, MSK)
What the job involves
- A committed lead and coach to an agile team of polyglot Data Platform Engineers, building a cutting-edge data lakehouse platform on AWS using Kafka and cloud-native streaming technologies, Iceberg, Trinio, DataHub and Airflow
- Be a brilliant people manager for the Data Engineering function that motivates and engages their team to develop their skills and increase their impact
- Deliver the platform to enable deliver world class data products, including the latest in LLM and other AI technologies
- Lead the technical direction of the cross-functional team, making good choices on technologies and approach to get the biggest impact for the least risk
- Foster an obsession with quality and engineering excellence through automated, repeatable processes using CI/CD, TDD, BDD
- Drive incremental growth in dev ops maturity, building tools and practices that allow repeatable and efficient delivery of models to production, with strong governance in the workflow and continuous monitoring of models in production
- Own the operation of the products built by your team and continuously improve operation performance
- Lead and coach a self-organised Agile team and continuously improve agile maturity and delivery predictability
- Our Technology Stack:
- Scala and Python
- Kafka, Spark, Kafka Streams, Kinesis, Akka and KSQL
- AWS, S3, Iceberg, Parquet, Glue and Spark/EMR for our Data Lake
- Elasticsearch, Dynamodb and Redis
- Starburst and Athena
- Airflow and ML Flow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Its app is intuitive and well designed and its even pioneering paperless travel, allowing users to store their tickets in the app.
It's hyper-focused on customer experience and has a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers. Its customers make 170,000 journeys a day and it sells 200 tickets a minute.
Its continuing to innovate to stay ahead, using machine learning to predict price movements and integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets simply by speaking to their phone.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Company benefits
- Flexible working (60% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships through Wellhub
- Private Health and Dental Insurance
- Enhanced Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- YellowNest - Subsidised Childcare Fees
- Work from Abroad
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO)Joined Trainline in 2020 as COO before becoming the CEO in 2021. Previously the Group CEO at Moonpig and Photobox and also spent over 10 years at eBay in various VP roles.
Lisa Hillier
(Chief People Officer)Previously the CPO at Gousto, The Restaurant Group, and Just Eat. They also spent over 6 years at Betfair as the Head of HR and Chief Human Resource Officer.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Technology Officer)Previously a Director of Data Science at Facebook and as a Director of Business Insights at Skype and Microsoft.
Sakshi Anand
(Chief Growth Officer)Joined Trainline in 2023 as the VP of Growth and President of UK before becoming the CGO in 2025. They are also the Founder of NeuStar Consulting.
People progressing
Gary joined in 2022 from Comparethemarket as Director of Engineering and was recently promoted to VP Engineering, reporting directly to CTO.
Joe joined in 2022 from Meta as Director of Data Science and was recently promoted to VP Data, reporting directly to CTO.
Ali joined in 2023 from Meta and was recently promoted to VP Product, reporting directly to CPO.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Gender Equality Network 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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