Technical Programme Manager, Core Tech

About us We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs future of travel. 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 🚄 Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. Introducing the Trainline Core Tech Team 👋 Trainline is on a mission to make rail and coach travel simpler and more accessible for millions of people. Behind every seamless customer experience sits Core Tech - the teams that keep our engineers productive, our platforms secure, and our operations running at pace. We're now looking for a Technical Programme Manager to coordinate delivery across our cross-departmental Core Tech programme, coordinating delivery across Workplace IT, Cyber Security, Production Operations, and Developer Experience. This is a hands-on role for someone who leads through people, not process. You'll help maintain the plan, track dependencies, and keep the rhythm that keep multiple technical teams moving in the same direction - earning influence by getting into the detail with engineers and stakeholders, building trust, and unblocking work directly rather than through status reports alone. If you're energised by ambiguity, at home in fast-moving agile environments, and genuinely enjoy connecting people to get things done, we'd love to hear from you. In this role as the Technical Programme Manager, you will... 🚄 - Work as the primary program lead for cyber security and coordinate delivery of the Core Tech cross-departmental programme, including the roadmap, milestones, cross-team dependencies, risks, and the reporting that gives leadership a clear and honest view of progress - Act as the connective tissue between Workplace IT, Cyber Security, Production Operations, and Developer Experience - running cadences and supporting artefacts, and working relationships that bring separate backlogs into a coordinated programme - Plan and coordinate complex, cross-functional technical programmes, translating strategy into clear milestones, owners, and timelines - Run the operating rhythm - stand-ups, planning sessions, reviews, and retrospectives - keeping agile teams focused and moving - Get into the technical detail with teams to understand trade-offs, pressure-test plans, and support informed decisions. Build strong, trust-based relationships across engineering, security, operations, and leadership, using those connections to unblock work quickly and escalate early where needed - Communicate clearly and consistently, surfacing status, risks, and decisions to both engineers and senior stakeholders and tailoring the message to the audience - Contribute to continuous improvement in how Core Tech teams plan and deliver, maintaining lightweight programme artefacts - roadmaps, RAID logs, and dependency maps - that teams genuinely find useful We'd love to hear from you if you have... 🔍 - Experience in technical programme or project management, contributing to the delivery of complex programmes in a software or technology organisation - A good technical background that allows you to hold your own in engineering, infrastructure, or security conversations and reason about technical trade-offs - Experienced with hands-on programme and project management across…