Head of Engineering - Automotive & Data

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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. 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 our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.

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. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact and difference for our customers, our people, and our business.

What will you be doing?

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 senior leadership role involves overseeing technology objectives, strategy, goals, and roadmap. You'll collaborate with Product to drive innovation, create exceptional customer experiences, and advance Arrive's mission for more livable cities.

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. These solutions include:

• In-vehicle payments for parking, EV charging, fuelling, and tolling

• Data services that support OEM-connected service ecosystems and various mapping and navigation providers

The role also owns the delivery and continued growth of the Group’s EV charging platform that supports go-to-market applications across the entire organisation.

Impact & Responsibilities

As the senior engineering leader within the Automotive & Data Business Unit, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of connected vehicle commerce. You’ll 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.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• 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.

• Own the architecture, development, and operational health of mission-critical systems, including sensitive payment infrastructure and PCI DSS-compliant CDE components.

• 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 Group’s 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., PCI DSS, TISAX, ISO 27001), and embed security into development workflows.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Partner Operations, and Business Development to translate user and partner needs into scalable, production-ready solutions.

• Take ownership of growth strategy and team development , including hiring, budgeting, and identifying future skills, structures, and potential acquisitions.

• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that advance both product capabilities and technical maturity across the platform.

• Promote agile, sustainable software development practices and actively contribute to an open, inclusive, and purpose-driven engineering culture.

About You

We are looking for a senior leader who is passionate about transforming lives through modern technology. 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. Approachable and optimistic, you inspire a proactive, constructive attitude and lead by example.

Requirements

• 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.

• Experience in designing and operating transactional systems, including session management and payment systems.

• Demonstrated success in delivering systems in regulated environments (e.g. PCI DSS, TISAX, ISO 27001), including compliance alignment and audit readiness.

• 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.

• Experience managing vendor and outsourcing relationships at both strategic and operational levels.

• 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.
  

Desirable requirements include;

• 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.

• Working knowledge of modern authentication flows and standards, such as OAuth2, SSO, and SAML, and secure API gateway patterns.

About us

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. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.