Lead Architect, Airline Operations Platform

easyJet; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Flexible benefits package

Staff travel discount

Annual discount credit on holidays

Work Away scheme

EV lease salary sacrifice

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Lead Architect to join our Airline Operations team. This pivotal role owns architectural integrity, direction, and outcomes within a defined mission (e.g. Crew, Airports, Flight Operations, or Engineering).

You will define target-state architecture, standards, and guardrails to align technology changes with enterprise strategy while enabling local delivery decisions. You will collaborate with senior leadership, drive governance across multi-product landscapes, and champion

Qualifications

• Experience working with senior leadership, architecture communities, and delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including cross-organisational.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Balance strategic thinking with practical delivery and trade-offs.
• Familiarity with observability, telemetry, and modern data architectures.
• Knowledge of automation frameworks and digital operations platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and platform engineering approaches.
• Understanding of identity federation and third-party access management.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled operational capabilities or predictive analytics.
• Experience in aviation or airline ops tech environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural direction within the Mission scope and act as escalation point for cross-domain impact.
• Define standards and guardrails to support teams.
• Establish patterns and design principles for adoption across product teams.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and ensure alignment with strategy.
• Assess deviations from standards and guide migrations to shared services.
• Identify emerging tech trends and readiness for AI and platform evolution.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cloud-native architectures

Platform engineering

AI-enabled operations

Identity federation

Observability platforms

Cross-product governance

Product-centric organisations

Education

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Job description

easyJet is seeking a Lead Architect to join our Airline Operations team. This pivotal role owns architectural integrity, direction, and outcomes within a defined mission (e.g. Crew, Airports, Flight Operations, or Engineering).

You will define target-state architecture, standards, and guardrails to align technology changes with enterprise strategy while enabling local delivery decisions. You will collaborate with senior leadership, drive governance across multi-product landscapes, and champion