Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration

Overview

In this role, you will own the data availability and integration platform for easyJet’s Airline Operations, leading a team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists. You will shape the integration strategy, drive API and event-stream delivery, and ensure reliable, governed data feeds between vendor systems and internal products. You will champion a platform-as-a-product mindset, promoting reuse and self-service patterns across missions. This is a chance to influence how mission-critical data is accessed in a 24×7 airline environment and to work with cross-functional partners to raise engineering standards.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 30% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• 7% pension
• Life Insurance
• Flexible benefits package

Responsibilities

• Own the integration strategy and translate it into adoption patterns, templates, and reference implementations
• Lead roadmaps and backlogs for APIs, event streams, operational data stores, and feeds; promote reuse across missions
• Ensure data availability, timeliness, and integrity while aligning with governance
• Set non-functional requirements and build observability for uptime, performance, and resilience
• Line-manage and develop Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists, reducing single points of failure
• Manage vendor relationships around endpoint constraints, rate limits, and API maturity to influence roadmaps

Key requirements

• Proven experience owning an API/integration capability and driving pattern adoption
• Strong API design/management, event-driven architecture, and operational data store expertise
• Experience creating mediated interfaces to abstract vendor systems and separating read/commit paths
• Cloud platform exposure (preferably Azure), automated testing, CI/CD, and IaC
• Proven ability to operate in a live 24×7 environment with disaster recovery and on-call practices
• Experience leading engineers in a matrix environment and prioritizing backlogs

• Strong technical credibility under pressure
• Collaborative, architecture-driven mindset
• Stakeholder management and vendor negotiation skills
• API design/management
• Event-driven architecture
• Message brokers

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