Platform Lead: Data Availability & API Integration

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

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 30% bonus

25 days holiday

Life Insurance

Excellent staff travel benefits

Hybrid work in Luton

Job summary

easyJet holidays is seeking a Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy and data availability end to end. You will lead a team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists delivering APIs, event streams, and data feeds that connect vendor systems with internal products.

The role emphasizes a product-like interface estate, self-service for engineers, strong observability, and collaboration with Enterprise Data and vendors.

Qualifications

• Experience owning an API/integration capability and driving pattern adoption across distributed teams.
• Strong API design/management, event-driven architecture, and data store concepts.
• Experience in live 24x7 environments with disaster recovery and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Own integration strategy and publish patterns, reference implementations, and templates for engineers to follow.
• Lead roadmap and backlog for APIs, event streams, and data feeds with a reuse-first mindset.
• Ensure absolute availability, timeliness, and integrity of operational data and align with data governance.
• Line-manage Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists, reducing single points of failure and promoting robust monitoring.
• Collaborate with vendors on endpoint constraints, rate limits, and API maturity to influence roadmaps.

Skills

API integration

Event-driven architecture

Cloud platforms

IaC

CI/CD

Operational resilience

People leadership

Aviation domain knowledge

Job description

easyJet holidays is seeking a Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy and data availability end to end. You will lead a team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists delivering APIs, event streams, and data feeds that connect vendor systems with internal products.

The role emphasizes a product-like interface estate, self-service for engineers, strong observability, and collaboration with Enterprise Data and vendors.