Platform Lead: APIs, Data Availability & Integration

easyJet holidays; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 30% bonus

25 days holiday

Employee share schemes

Life Insurance

Work Away Scheme

Flexible benefits

Staff travel benefits

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy end-to-end. You will lead Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists to deliver APIs, event streams, and data feeds that safely connect vendor systems with internal products while upholding secure, mediated interfaces.

This role champions an API-first, platform-as-a-product approach with strong governance, resilience, and observability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning an API/integration capability.
• Experience with distributed engineering teams and strategy adoption.
• Experience building mediated interfaces and API-first platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud services (Azure) and IaC tooling.
• Live 24x7 environment support and resilience.
• Leadership of platform engineering and integration specialists.

Responsibilities

• Treat the interface estate as a product with reusable patterns.
• Own roadmap/backlog for APIs, event streams, and data feeds.
• Ensure data availability, timeliness, and integrity.
• Maintain uptime, performance, and latency targets.
• Line manage engineers and foster resilient practices.
• Collaborate with vendors on API maturity and constraints.

Skills

API design

Event-driven

Platform leadership

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Vendor collaboration

Aviation domain

Architecture governance

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Job description

easyJet is seeking a Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy end-to-end. You will lead Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists to deliver APIs, event streams, and data feeds that safely connect vendor systems with internal products while upholding secure, mediated interfaces.

This role champions an API-first, platform-as-a-product approach with strong governance, resilience, and observability.