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Platform Chapter Lead - Engineering

Platform Chapter Lead - Engineering

easyJet • London,London Luton Airport
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Platform Chapter Lead - Engineering(17129)

Description

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.

About the role

We're modernising how we build and ship software across our digital and operational estate. As Head of Platform Engineering you'll own the strategy, delivery and operation of our internal developer platform, and lead the group of teams behind it.

Platform engineering at an airline is a genuinely interesting problem: revenue-critical services that have to stay up through seasonal peaks and disruption-driven traffic spikes, a large and evolving estate, and real pace. You'll set direction, lead through your managers, and own a budget — and while you won't be writing code, you'll be close enough to challenge technical choices and hold your own in a design debate.

Why now. We're investing in platform engineering as a core capability, and this is a pivotal hire. There's genuine scope to shape the teams, define how the platform is built and run, and raise the engineering bar — not to maintain a finished thing, but to build it into something great.

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Direct reports: 4–5 team leads / engineering managers (Platform & DevOps)

What you'll do

  • Lead the teams. Lead 4–5 Platform, DevOps and Developer Enablement teams through their managers; develop your leaders, plan capacity, and hire and grow strong talent.
  • Own the strategy. Define and drive the roadmap for our Internal Developer Platform and tooling, set technical direction with Enterprise Architecture, and make deliberate build/buy calls.
  • Own delivery. Hold end-to-end accountability for delivery — quality, predictability and pace — surfacing risks early and driving continuous improvement.
  • Own the budget. Own the operating budget (opex) and headcount, run a cost-effective tooling strategy, and embed FinOps to manage cloud spend and demonstrate value.
  • Drive developer experience. Make the platform something teams to use — paved paths, less friction — using metrics () and real feedback to keep improving it.
  • Keep it reliable and compliant. Oversee performance, resilience and observability for revenue-critical services through peak traffic, and maintain security and compliance (, GDPR).
  • Bring the business with you. Align platform strategy with business goals and translate technical trade-offs into clear decisions, up to executive level.

Business Area

Information Technology (IT)

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation

Information Technology (IT)

Schedule

Full-time

Unposting Date

Ongoing

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