Railway coordination platform managing Britain's train operators
Rail Delivery Group coordinates Britain's fragmented train-operator network through a data and systems integration layer. The tech stack—Kafka, ActiveMQ, AWS Glue, Redshift, Kinesis—reveals a maturing data platform handling high-volume operational flows across multiple operators. Active projects span mobile ticketing, incident management, and a national ERTMS programme, while pain points cluster around scaling data pipelines and standardizing control across independent operators—a structural complexity reflected in their hiring focus on engineering and data roles.
Notable leadership hires: Digital Systems Lead
Rail Delivery Group is a nonprofit that brings together Britain's train-operating companies to coordinate service delivery and passenger experience. They operate as a partnership entity rather than a direct operator, providing shared systems, standards, and expertise across the fragmented rail network. Their platform handles core operational functions: journey planning, mobile ticketing via NFC, incident response, and real-time data aggregation from multiple operators into a unified data warehouse. The organisation runs on AWS infrastructure with a mix of streaming (Kafka, Kinesis) and batch data processing (Redshift, Glue).
Core infrastructure: AWS (including Landing Zone, Security Hub, API Gateway, Lambda, Glue). Data layer: Kafka, ActiveMQ, Redshift, Kinesis, Athena. Observability: New Relic, Grafana. Tools: GitLab, Azure AD, Jira, Confluence, NetSuite, Smartsheet.
Major initiatives include a unified control programme, mobile ticketing platform (ITSO on mobile), accessible journey planner, data warehouse development, incident management improvement, and participation in the ERTMS national programme and FMRCS route programme.
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