Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions — Lead Teams

Trainline; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Work from abroad policy

Share purchase plan

EV scheme

Job summary

Trainline in London seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions, to lead multiple engineering teams and own end-to-end delivery for white label and DPAYG products. You will partner with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to align technical work with business and revenue goals, providing clear technical direction and scalable system design.

You will drive operational excellence, mentor engineers, manage complex dependencies, and promote high-quality practices.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex, multi-team initiatives in a B2B or platform environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leading engineering teams

Multi-team initiatives

B2B/platform experience

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems / microservices

Job description

Trainline in London seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Manager, IT Solutions, to lead multiple engineering teams and own end-to-end delivery for white label and DPAYG products. You will partner with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to align technical work with business and revenue goals, providing clear technical direction and scalable system design.

You will drive operational excellence, mentor engineers, manage complex dependencies, and promote high-quality practices.