Head of Data Engineering, Trainline
Platform, Governance, Architecture
£120-150k
+ Equity + Bonus
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
Open for applications
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£120-150k
+ Equity + Bonus
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
- Have experience managing multiple teams of Data Engineers
- Are in expert in data engineering infrastructure, technologies and practices
- Have deep expertise in data modelling and warehouse design in the modern, lake house era
- Are an experienced and committed people manager with technical leadership experience
- Are passionate about agile software delivery with a track record of leading effective agile and lean software teams
- Have a strong background in DevOps deploying, managing and maintaining services using Airflow, Docker, Terraform and AWS CLI tools to achieve infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments
- Have excellent knowledge of AWS services (ECS, IAM, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, MSK)
What the job involves
- Set the vision and strategy for the Data Platform and lead the team and the necessary organisational change to achieve the vision
- Lead an org of circa. 20 Data Engineers and Data Engineering Managers
- Set the technology blueprint, architecture and roadmap of the Data Platform
- Ensure delivery of OKRs for Data Engineering and cross-functional data teams within your remit
- Ensure that the core data lake and data catalogue is highly available, contains trustworthy data and is well-governed
- Ensure that the core processing pipelines and infrastructure are reliable and deliver efficient, timely and high-quality data
- Engage the team to achieve good Have Your Say survey outcomes for the Data Engineering teams within your remit
- Manage the costs of data systems and 3rd party suppliers within the current FY budget and accurately forecasting the next FY budget
- Define and implement effective ways of working for delivery teams and ensuring these are embedded
- Influence the direction of our technology platforms so that they are aligned to the needs of delivery teams and driving adoption of new technologies
- Embed high standards of engineering excellence in delivery teams
- Define effective operational processes and ensuring that teams embed these processes and achieve operational performance targets for availability, performance, security, on call rotas, incident management etc
- Ensure the Data Engineering function engages with regulatory, audit or compliance teams and processes and achieves compliance with relevant policies in Data Governance, security, privacy and IT controls
- Coordinate larger cross-team projects or programmes within the Data function and ensure that we have governance in place to manage delivery
- Mentoring and developing team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and promoting diversity and inclusion within the team
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.
Its 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 sell 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 just by speaking to their phone.
Steph
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Insights
Company
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 (40% 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
(CPO)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 Data Officer)Previously a Director of Data Science at Facebook and as a Director of Business Insights at Skype and Microsoft.
Sakshi Anand
(CGO)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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