Head of engineering - data platforms in St Albans

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

Data is at the heart of how Just Eat builds products, serves customers, and enables teams to make smarter decisions. We're looking for a Head of Engineering - Data Platforms, to lead the evolution of Mobius, our next-generation real-time data platform, and shape how data is accessed, owned, and used across our technology organisation.

Leading a multidisciplinary organisation of platform and data engineers, you'll scale a platform built on a "Platform as a Product" mindset, creating a seamless self-service experience for engineering teams while championing a federated data mesh architecture. Working closely with engineering, product and domain leaders, you'll combine technical leadership with organisational design to build high-performing teams, influence platform adoption, and help shape the future of data at Just Eat.

This knowledge will also help solve non-routine, strategic problems around data governance gridlocks and high-complexity distributed systems, ensuring the architecture and organizational design sustainably support data growth over a 12 to 24-month horizon.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead, grow and develop a high-performing organisation of Technology Managers, Platform Engineers and Data Engineers, creating an environment where teams can thrive.
• Own the strategy, delivery and operational excellence of Mobius, ensuring it remains a reliable, scalable and high-performing real-time data platform.
• Champion a Platform as a Product mindset, continuously improving the developer experience through intuitive, self-service platform capabilities.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Domain leaders to drive adoption of data platform capabilities and federated data mesh principles across the organisation.
• Build strong relationships across Product & Technology, influencing strategic decisions and aligning platform roadmaps without direct authority.
• Define organisational structures, delivery roadmaps and engineering priorities that enable teams to scale effectively while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Coach, mentor and develop Technology Managers, creating clear accountability, succession planning and leadership capability across the organisation.
• Drive continuous improvements in platform reliability, scalability, performance and operational efficiency through modern engineering practices.
• Collaborate with cloud and technology partners to maximise platform capabilities while ensuring responsible management of infrastructure investment.
• Measure success through platform adoption, developer experience, operational excellence and engineering outcomes, using data to continuously improve performance.

What will you bring to the team?

• Proven experience leading and scaling large engineering organisations, including managing Technology Managers and building high-performing teams.
• Strong engineering background across Platform Engineering, Developer Platforms or Cloud Infrastructure, with experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building or operating modern data platforms, event-driven architectures or real-time streaming platforms.
• A product mindset, with experience treating internal platforms as products and improving developer experience through self-service capabilities.
• Ability to influence senior engineering and product stakeholders, building strong partnerships across complex organisations.
• Experience defining engineering strategy, organisational design and delivery models that enable teams to scale effectively.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, platform engineering principles and engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A pragmatic, delivery-focused approach with the ability to balance long-term platform strategy alongside operational excellence.
• A collaborative leadership style that champions our values of Lead, Deliver and Care, developing people, raising engineering standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

At JET, this is how we play. Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation.

These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging: No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

Are you ready to join the team? Apply now!