Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration

At easyJet, we are transforming Airline Operations through modern product-led technology, operational excellence, automation, data, and AI-enabled capabilities. The Airline Operations Platform serves as the single point of contact for the applications and source data keeping our network flying—owning critical crew, flight planning, network control, and engineering systems like AIMS, TOPS, LIDO, and AMOS.

We are seeking a visionary Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to join our platform leadership team. In this critical role, you will own the integration strategy and data availability capability end to end. You will lead a high-performing team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists to deliver the APIs, event streams, operational data stores, and feeds that safely connect vendor systems with our internal products and missions.

Your non-negotiable principle: systems of record stay protected with their vendors, and our internal engineering teams consume platform-mediated interfaces—never direct connections.

Key Responsibilities

As the capability owner, you will treat the interface estate as a product—ensuring it is documented, discoverable, versioned, and self-service for mission engineers. Your core focus areas will include:

Integration Strategy & Adoption: Develop, maintain, and publish the integration strategy in tight alignment with our architecture community. Translate this strategy into practical, adopted patterns, reference implementations, and templates that engineers can readily follow.

• Capability & Product Delivery: Lead the roadmap and backlog for all APIs, event streaming, operational data stores, and feeds. Drive a strict "reuse-first" mindset to scale capabilities across multiple missions while reducing bespoke point-to-point interfaces.
• Source Data Availability: Ensure the absolute availability, timeliness, and integrity of operational data. Maintain the boundaries of production and API delivery while partnering smoothly with Enterprise Data on overarching governance.
• Operational Health & Resilience: Own the uptime, performance, and latency of the interface estate. Set non-functional standards for timeouts, retries, and dead-letter handling, while building deep observability into the system to catch defects before the operation feels them.
• Engineering Leadership: Line manage, coach, and scale a technical bench of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists. Actively eliminate single points of failure, foster a culture that finishes the "unglamorous parts" (monitoring, logging, error handling), and support contractor-to-permanent transitions.
• Vendor Collaboration: Own the technical relationships with key vendors regarding endpoint constraints, rate limits, and API maturity. Ground your discussions in clear technical data to influence vendor roadmaps in favour of our architectural needs.

At easyJet, we are transforming Airline Operations through modern product-led technology, operational excellence, automation, data, and AI-enabled capabilities. The Airline Operations Platform serves as the single point of contact for the applications and source data keeping our network flying—owning critical crew, flight planning, network control, and engineering systems like AIMS, TOPS, LIDO, and AMOS.

We are seeking a visionary Platform Lead – Data Availability, API & Integration to join our platform leadership team. In this critical role, you will own the integration strategy and data availability capability end to end. You will lead a high-performing team of Platform Engineers and Integration Specialists to deliver the APIs, event streams, operational data stores, and feeds that safely connect vendor systems with our internal products and missions.