Lead Data Scientist - Optimisation & Disruption

easyJet Airline Company PLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Staff travel discount

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Optimisation Engineering to lead a cross-functional team delivering decision-support software for disruption management and crew rostering. You will translate complex operational problems into scalable solutions, guiding architecture, delivery, and reliability across services and data pipelines.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on direction, collaborating with product, OR, and customer stakeholders, and integrating solvers like Gurobi

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software teams delivering production-grade systems.
• Strong fundamentals in system design and distributed architectures.
• Experience with optimisation or decision-support applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional team of engineers and OR/data science specialists.
• Own technical direction for optimisation products solving disruption and crew planning problems.
• Drive architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and observability for scalable services.
• Collaborate with product management to shape roadmaps and success metrics.
• Integrate solvers like Gurobi and ensure model performance and explainability.
• Promote engineering best practices: CI/CD, testing, incident response.

Skills

People leadership

Optimization

Software architecture

Python

Java/C#/C++

Tools

Gurobi

Job description

easyJet is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Optimisation Engineering to lead a cross-functional team delivering decision-support software for disruption management and crew rostering. You will translate complex operational problems into scalable solutions, guiding architecture, delivery, and reliability across services and data pipelines.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on direction, collaborating with product, OR, and customer stakeholders, and integrating solvers like Gurobi