Technology Lead

easyJet; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major airline company in the UK is seeking a Technology Lead for the Integrated Operations and Planning Mission. The role involves providing technical leadership to ensure robust, scalable solutions essential for crew planning and flight scheduling. You will mentor engineers, define technical architectures, and collaborate with Product Managers to translate business needs into technical specifications. This position requires expertise in modern engineering practices and a strong understanding of operational technology in the airline industry.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a technical leadership role, preferably in software engineering.
• Expertise in modern engineering practices and hands-on mentorship abilities.
• Strong understanding of operational technology in airline industry.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure scalable and secure solutions.
• Guide engineers in best practices and sustainable engineering.
• Define technical architecture and partner with Product Managers for alignment.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Software engineering

API-first practices

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

Technology Lead(16509)

Description

TEAM

As a Tech Lead in the Integrated Operations and Planning Mission, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future technology and software engineering for a critical part of our business.

Our products power critical operational processes such as crew planning, flight scheduling, disruption management, and Network control — the beating heart of our airline.

You’ll lead the technical vision, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and future-proof, while guiding engineers to deliver high-quality code and modern architectures. Working closely with the Product Manager and Delivery Lead, you’ll be at the centre of decision-making, balancing business needs with technology choices to deliver real value to both our operations teams and our passengers.

Responsibilities

• To provide technical leadership for the product team, ensuring solutions are designed and delivered to be scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.
• To act as the technical authority as part of the collaboration between product, delivery, and engineering, ensuring alignment with objectives and architectural strategy.
• To guide and mentor Engineers within the team, enabling best practices and sustainable engineering across the lifecycle of airline operations products.
• To ensure technology choices and designs balance immediate delivery needs with long-term maintainability and cost-effectiveness, adding measurable value to easyJet’s operational resilience and efficiency.

Responsibilities (cont.)

• Provide hands-on leadership to engineers, setting coding standards, reviewing technical designs, and ensuring best practice in security, performance, and integration.
• Define and own the technical architecture for our products ( aligned to one of ; crew planning, disruption management, integrated control systems).
• Partner with the Product Manager to translate business needs into technical designs, effort estimates, and roadmaps.
• Work closely with Delivery Leads to align delivery timelines with technical feasibility, proactively identifying risks and dependencies.
• Champion modern engineering practices (CI / CD, cloud-native, API-first, test automation) across the Integrated Planning and Operations Product Suite.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and technology governance forums to ensure compliance with easyJet’s wider IT strategy, security standards, and cost controls.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, explaining technical trade-offs in clear, outcome-focused language.
• Mentor and coach engineers, developing technical capability within the team and creating a culture of continuous learning.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of critical production issues, ensuring operational stability of systems that directly impact flights, crew, and passengers.

Details

Business Area: Information Technology (IT)

Primary Location: United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation: Information Technology (IT)

Schedule: Full-time

Unposting Date: Ongoing