Lead Platform Architect – Airline Ops & Enterprise API

easyJet Airline Company PLC; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel discount

Annual holiday credit

Work Away program

EV lease scheme

Job summary

easyJet Airline Company PLC is seeking a Lead Platform Architect for Airline Operations to govern and evolve a mission-critical enterprise asset affecting flight operations, crew management, and system reliability.

You will unite diverse missions under a single resilient platform and own the target architecture, service models, and integration patterns to enable multi-mission reuse and reduce integration complexity.

Qualifications

• Ability to think in large, interconnected systems.
• Experience aligning product demands with business strategy.
• Expertise in API-first, event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of aviation data frameworks and industry standards (IATA) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own platform integrity and roadmap for the Airline Operations Platform.
• Provide technical leadership on scalability and resilience to engineering teams.
• Lead architecture assurance activities and enforce platform standards.
• Design core layers for identity, data, orchestration, and event streaming.
• Champion reusable AI, automation, and telemetry workflows.

Skills

Systems thinker

Strategic leader

Integration expert

Aviation domain knowledge

Governance

Communicator

Job description

easyJet Airline Company PLC is seeking a Lead Platform Architect for Airline Operations to govern and evolve a mission-critical enterprise asset affecting flight operations, crew management, and system reliability.

You will unite diverse missions under a single resilient platform and own the target architecture, service models, and integration patterns to enable multi-mission reuse and reduce integration complexity.