Interim Senior Engineering Manager

Trainline; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Work from abroad policy

Share purchase plan

EV scheme to reduce carbon emissions

Additional festive time off

Family-friendly benefits

Job summary

Trainline is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions, to lead multiple engineering teams across our white-label and DPAYG products in a B2B environment. You will drive technical direction, partner with Product, Data and Commercial teams, and ensure delivery aligns with business goals.

You will own OKRs, health of systems, and a cohesive architectural vision while growing leaders and coaching managers.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams in complex, multi-team initiatives.
• Proven track record building high-performing teams and growing leaders.
• Ability to operate across technical, product and commercial domains to drive business impact.
• Clear communication to navigate fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures.
• Experience managing managers or multiple teams is a plus.
• Understanding of UK rail industry or travel distribution platforms is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and coach team growth through feedback and performance management.
• Own end-to-end delivery across white label and DPAYG products, ensuring measurable impact.
• Define roadmaps with Product, Data and Commercial to align delivery with revenue goals.
• Provide technical leadership across IT Solutions and clarify system interactions and data flows.
• Drive alignment across cross-team dependencies and promote engineering best practices.
• Ensure strong technical health, monitoring and incident management across all teams.

Skills

Leadership

B2B / platform experience

Distributed systems

Microservices

Stakeholder management

People development

Job description

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 Partner Solutions Team

Trainline Partner Solutions (TPS) powers the technology behind our white label retailing product for Trainline Operating Companies, as well as our Digital Pay as You Go product. As Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions, you’ll lead multiple engineering teams across this domain, reporting into the Head of Engineering, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction that underpins these products.

You’ll take ownership of OKR delivery, technical health, and a cohesive technical vision across the IT Solutions domain, while partnering closely with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to keep technical delivery aligned with business goals. This is a role suited to someone with experience in a B2B environment, comfortable managing complex systems and dependencies, and skilled at building high-performing teams that consistently deliver against ambitious commercial goals.

In this role as the Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions, you will

• Lead multiple engineering teams, supporting engineers and managers in their growth through coaching, feedback, and performance management
• Own end-to-end delivery across the white label and DPAYG products, ensuring initiatives are executed effectively and deliver measurable impact
• Partner closely with Product, Data, and Commercial stakeholders to define roadmaps that align technical delivery with business and revenue outcomes
• Provide technical leadership across the IT Solutions domain, bringing clarity to system interactions, APIs, and data flows without needing to be deeply hands-on in the code
• Drive alignment across cross-team dependencies, ensuring prioritisation and execution are coordinated and transparent
• Champion engineering best practices that promote high-quality, scalable, and resilient systems
• Drive operational excellence, ensuring strong technical health, monitoring, and incident management across all teams

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex, multi-team initiatives in a B2B or platform environment
• A strong track record of building and developing high-performing teams, and growing future leaders
• Confidence operating across technical, product, and commercial domains to deliver business impact
• The ability to bring clarity and direction in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Experience working with distributed systems or microservices architectures
• Ideally, experience managing managers or leading multiple teams
• It would also be helpful if you have an understanding of the UK rail industry, or experience with travel distribution platforms or white label B2B products

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!