We are easyJet – a FTSE-250 listed, multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.
We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
What makes us easyJet? Our Promise Behaviours – we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easyJet.
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.
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.
