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# Head of Engineering - Data Platforms

- **Company:** Just Eat Takeaway.com
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Data Streaming, Event Driven Architecture, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Real Time Data, Data Management
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e6910a93ad30f233

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

Data is at the heart of how Just Eat Takeaway.com builds products, serves customers, and enables teams to make smarter decisions. We're looking for a Head of Data Platform Engineering 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.


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