Head of Engineering - Automotive & Data (London)

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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isnt a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For the cities and communities we serve. Are you ready to lead top talent engineering managers and senior individual contributors? We are seeking an experienced, passionate and results-driven Head of Engineering to play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture. We're elevating our product and technology company through continuous improvement and innovation to better serve customers.
As Head of Engineering , you'll drive technical excellence within the Automotive and Data engineering function. We champion lean and agile principles, empowering teams with ownership to achieve goals.
This position is responsible for the delivery and continued scaling of the connected services solutions offered by the Automotive & Data Business Unit (A&D BU), currently live in 10s of millions of vehicles globally. Data services that support OEM-connected service ecosystems and various mapping and navigation providers
As the senior engineering leader within the Automotive & Data Business Unit, youll play a critical role in shaping the future of connected vehicle commerce. Youll lead the development of our data, in-car commerce, payments, and EV charging platform - delivering secure, seamless, and innovative services for drivers, OEMs, and service partners worldwide.
Define and deliver the engineering strategy for our transaction platform, covering data, in-vehicle payments, and EV charging, ensuring alignment with product vision, commercial goals, and user needs.
Lead and scale a high-performing backend engineering team across multiple squads, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture rooted in technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive integration with a wide ecosystem of third-party providers, including EV charging networks, fuel stations, toll operators, parking aggregators, and acquirers, enabling seamless in-vehicle transactions at global scale.
Scale and optimise our EV charging platform, delivering value across drivers, charging operators (CPOs), OEMs, and internal business units.
Support and evolve the Groups data strategy, enabling the intelligent use of mobility, behavioural, and payment data to unlock new product and commercial opportunities.
Ensure platform reliability, performance, and scalability through robust observability, incident response processes, performance testing, and fault-tolerant architecture.
Partner with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to meet regulatory and certification standards (e.g., Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Partner Operations, and Business Development to translate user and partner needs into scalable, production-ready solutions.
Promote agile, sustainable software development practices and actively contribute to an open, inclusive, and purpose-driven engineering culture.
You value people, quality, collaboration, and continuous learning, and have a proven track record of leading and empowering teams. You champion a positive, solutions-driven culture that makes engineering teams both effective and collaborative, fostering resilience, adaptability, and high performance. Proven leadership experience in software engineering, ideally within large-scale data platforms, transactional systems, fintech, automotive, or mobility sectors.
Extensive experience managing senior engineering leaders and geographically distributed teams across multiple platforms. Skilled in coaching, fostering collaboration, and building resilient, high-performance cultures.
Practical experience building workflow tooling and processing pipelines that manage large-scale, high-throughput datasets.
Strong background in delivering and scaling B2B2C or partner-integrated platforms, combining a user-centric and data-driven mindset.
Advanced knowledge of cloud-native engineering (preferably AWS), microservice architecture, container orchestration, and scalable infrastructure.
Fluent in agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, and continuous delivery principles; skilled in optimising development flow and engineering velocity.
Effective communicator, able to influence across technical, commercial, and executive teams with clarity and credibility.
Minimum of 10 years in agile product engineering environments, with a consistent track record of delivery and innovation.
This role is based in our London office. Fluency in English is required.
Familiarity with payment orchestration platforms, acquirer integrations, and identity frameworks for fleet and driver-based services.
Experience integrating with automotive OEM systems, in-vehicle commerce platforms, or embedded infotainment services.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile, YourParkingSpace and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. Its about more than function, its about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, its how you Arrive.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. Its about more than function, its about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, its how you Arrive. Employment type Full-time

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Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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