JOB PURPOSE 

•    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.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

•    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.

Requirements of the Role

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED



•    Proven experience as a Technical Lead, or Principle Engineer in large-scale operational or mission-critical systems.

•    Strong background in software engineering, with expertise in at least one major development stack (e.g. Java, .NET, Python, Gourbi).

•    Experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS) with strong knowledge of API integration, event-driven architecture, and microservices.

•    Familiarity with airline or transport operations systems (crew, flight planning, disruption, scheduling) highly desirable.

•    Strong understanding of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability).

•    Strong understanding of scrum and agile ways of working, and able to help the team way of working

•    Excellent problem-solving skills, able to assess trade-offs between time, cost, and technical debt.

•    Ability to influence at multiple levels — from engineers to business leaders — by explaining technical concepts in clear, business-relevant terms.

•    Experience mentoring and developing engineers, creating high-performing delivery teams.

•    Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).