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Arriva Group Tech Stack

Europe-wide bus, rail, and coach operator managing 1.5B annual passenger journeys

Ground Passenger Transportation Sunderland, North East 10,001+ employees Privately Held

Arriva operates passenger transport across 11 European countries with 36,200 employees, running buses, trains, coaches, and waterbuses. The hiring profile is operationally heavy—over 45% of open roles sit in ops and engineering—while active projects center on fleet electrification, reliability, and depot energy efficiency. Pain points cluster around maintenance downtime and compliance, signaling a capital-intensive business scaling toward net-zero transport infrastructure.

Tech Stack 30 technologies

Core StackSAP Workday Oracle Power BI AWS Redshift AWS Glue AWS Lambda Python Microsoft Office Excel Word Outlook Microsoft 365 Teams SharePoint Optibus Oracle Fusion Finance PowerPoint Drupal Forms Athena Snaplogic SQL Workday Recruiting LinkedIn Instagram Meta TikTok HTML

AdoptingOracle Fusion Finance

What Arriva Group Is Building

◆Challenges

Ensuring safety compliance
Reducing reactive maintenance downtime
Improving energy efficiency across depots
Fully electrify fleet by 2030
Minimising lost mileage and downtime
Ensuring sites are safe and compliant
Maintaining fleet safety
Vehicle reliability improvement
Maintaining fleet reliability
Budget management

▲Active Projects

Major refurbishment
Fleet reliability improvement
Fleet electrification
Portfolio management
Employee engagement strategy
Workday transformation programme
Energy efficiency improvement across depots
Relocation projects
Heavy maintenance contracts
Group-wide transformation programmes

Hiring Activity

Steady340 roles · 110 in 30d

Department

Ops

159

Engineering

113

HR

17

Finance

11

Sales

10

Data

5

Marketing

5

Product

4

Seniority

Mid

121

Junior

104

Senior

53

Manager

46

Intern

8

Lead

6

Director

3

Notable leadership hires: Head of Service Delivery, Commercial Director

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About Arriva Group

Arriva is Europe's largest passenger transport operator, delivering local buses, inter-urban coaches, regional and national rail services, and ancillary mobility options (waterbuses, bicycles, school transport) across the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. The group also operates a rolling stock leasing business in Romania. With approximately 36,200 employees and 1.5 billion passenger journeys annually, Arriva's operating model balances scheduled services, demand-responsive transport, and heavy fleet management across depots in multiple time zones.

HeadquartersSunderland, North East

Company Size10,001+ employees

Hiring MarketsUnited Kingdom, Switzerland, United States, Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, Italy

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Arriva's tech stack?

Core systems: SAP, Oracle (including Fusion Finance), Workday (HR and recruiting), Microsoft 365 suite. Data and analytics: AWS (Redshift, Athena, Glue, Lambda), Power BI, SQL, Python. Operational: Optibus (route planning). Web: Drupal. Social: Meta, Instagram, TikTok.

What is Arriva working on?

Fleet electrification by 2030, fleet reliability and heavy maintenance, energy efficiency improvements across depots, employee engagement strategy, Workday transformation, and group-wide portfolio management and relocation projects.