Solution Architect - Product

easyJet Airline Company PLC; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology firm is seeking a Solutions Architect specialized in Product and Inventory to shape its technology strategy. The role requires extensive experience in solution design and implementation, particularly with multi-vendor systems. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software development and familiarity with AWS architecture. Competitive salary and benefits offered, alongside a supportive hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus up to 20%

25 days holiday

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing multi-vendor solutions.
• Practical understanding of Generative and Agentic AI technology.
• Background in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy for Product and Inventory solutions.
• Engage with teams for technology discovery and conceptual solutions.
• Document and govern solutions across the customer domain.

Skills

Solution design

AWS solution architecture

API Design

Generative AI technology

Experience in travel or retail

Tools

Product Inventory Management Platforms

Order Management Platforms

Caching & Search Solutions

Job description

Overview

Job Description - Solution Architect - Product (16092)

easyJet holidays is the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, with a mission to provide brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices in more than 100 destinations across Europe. We do this by combining easyJet’s vast flight programme with more than 5000 handpicked hotels and best-in-class technology to provide the perfect package holiday. We launched in 2019 and have achieved significant milestones, including growth in customers, sustained profitability, and recognition as a top employer.

• Become the fastest growing, lowest cost, highest margin travel business in the UK
• Achieved milestone customer numbers and taken almost 2 million customers away in our latest full year of trading, delivering significant profits to the easyJet group
• Launched an award-winning sustainability strategy with a focus on making a positive impact on the local communities that make our holidays so special
• Doubled the size of our team year-on-year
• Expanded our business into Europe
• Been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 – highlighted as a loved employer and a great place to work for LGBTQIA+ employees, and named Best Workplace in Travel 2023 and 2024

We’re ambitious and are building remarkable teams with modern ways of working. That’s where you come in!

At easyJet Holidays, our Technology Team is a dynamic group of practical and pragmatic architects responsible for making strategic technology decisions, designing solutions, and safeguarding architecture information across the organisation. We ensure the assurance and design of key products being developed, collaborating with multiple squads and liaising with key business stakeholders to meet their needs effectively.

We are seeking a Solutions Architect specialized in the Product and Inventory domain to support our key strategic Commercial and Product-driven initiatives. This role involves shaping the strategic direction for easyJet Holidays" customer technology architecture and documenting our Product and Inventory technology landscape.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will lead the technology strategy for end-to-end solutions in the Product and Inventory domain, working closely with technical leads and the Head of Architecture to drive long-term architectural direction. You will engage with the Commercial and Product teams in technology discovery for new business ideas, providing conceptual solutions, options analysis, and guidance to realise our customer vision. Your responsibilities include producing high-quality, comprehensive solution design artefacts that balance different functional and non-functional drivers and requirements. You will provide architectural guidance to product teams and third-party vendors to ensure the delivered solution realises the design. Additionally, you will document and govern solutions across the customer domain and contribute to wider multi-domain governance across the easyJet Holidays technology landscape.

Requirements

What you'll bring to the team

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing solutions, including large, multi-technology, multi-vendor solutions, Product Inventory Management Platforms, Order Management Platforms, and Caching & Search Solutions
• Experience with AWS solution architecture components, building internal and external third-party integration architectures, and Event Driven Architecture Design & API Design
• A practical understanding of Generative and Agentic AI technology
• A background in software development
• Experience in the travel, retail, or e-commerce industries is highly desirable

What we can offer you

We offer a competitive base salary, up to 20% bonus, 25 days holiday, BAYE, SAYE and Performance share schemes, a 7% pension contribution, life assurance, a flexible benefits package, and excellent staff travel benefits.

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Business Area

Technology - easyJet holidays

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