Platform Lead: Data Availability & API Integration

Women in Data®; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 30% bonus

25 days holiday

BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

Life Insurance

Work Away Scheme

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a visionary Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy end-to-end and lead a team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists. You will deliver APIs, event streams, and data feeds that securely connect vendor systems with internal products in a 24x7, high-volume airline environment.

The role emphasizes governance, system boundaries, and self-service interfaces, with a strong focus on uptime, observability, and vendor

Qualifications

• Proven API/integration capability ownership and pattern adoption.
• Strong API design, event-driven architecture, and data-store concepts.
• Mediated interfaces to abstract vendor systems with controlled write-backs.
• Exposure to cloud services (Azure), CI/CD, and IaC practices.
• Experience building live 24x7 interfaces with robust error handling.

Responsibilities

• Treat the interface estate as a product with documentation, discoverability, and self-service.
• Lead roadmap for APIs, event streams, and data feeds; promote reuse across missions.
• Ensure absolute data availability, timeliness, and integrity; collaborate on governance.
• Own uptime, performance, latency; set standards for timeouts, retries, DLQ handling.
• Line-manage Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists; reduce single points of failure.
• Collaborate with vendors on endpoint constraints, rate limits, and roadmaps.

Skills

API design

Integration strategy

Event-driven

Platform leadership

Operational data

ITIL basics

Aviation domain

Vendor collaboration

Education

Architecture training

ITIL certification

Tools

Azure

Message brokers

Job description

easyJet is seeking a visionary Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to own the integration strategy end-to-end and lead a team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists. You will deliver APIs, event streams, and data feeds that securely connect vendor systems with internal products in a 24x7, high-volume airline environment.

The role emphasizes governance, system boundaries, and self-service interfaces, with a strong focus on uptime, observability, and vendor