Technical Architect - Retail

easyJet Airline Company PLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline company based in Luton is seeking a Technical Architect for Retail to own the inflight retail domain architecture. The role involves defining technical standards, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring robust solution design in a complex environment. Candidates should have a background in retail or ecommerce, strong integration skills, and excellent communication abilities. Flexible work arrangements are available, and the role offers up to 20% bonus, 25 days of holiday, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a Technical Architect or Senior Engineer.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture for the inflight retail domain.
• Lead architecture reviews and support Technical Design Authority submissions.
• Mentor engineers and promote good architectural practice.

Skills

Technical Architect experience

Ecommerce background

Integration patterns understanding

Event-driven architecture knowledge

Cloud platforms familiarity

Tools

Unified Modelling Language

Business Process Model and Notation

Job description

Job Description - Technical Architect - Retail (16692)

Job Description

Technical Architect - Retail ( 16692 )

Description

The Technical Architect for InFlight Retail provides domain level technical leadership for a critical part of easyJet’s customer and commercial ecosystem. This role defines, shapes and governs the architecture for all systems involved in onboard retail—including level technical leadership for a critical part of easyJet’s customer and commercial ecosystem.

You’ll have a real opportunity to define, shape and govern the architecture for all systems involved in onboard retail—including point of sale devices, retail platforms, catalogue and pricing systems, payments, supply chain integration, and post flight reconciliation. The role partners with delivery teams, suppliers and business stakeholders to simplify complexity and drive technical change across the domain.

This is a permanent opportunity, based in Luton! (Hybrid Working)

What you’ll be doing

• Own the target-state architecture for the inflight retail domain
• Define standards, patterns and principles across the platform
• Shape the evolution of legacy systems toward modular, event-driven, cloud-friendly designs
• Develop and maintain domain roadmaps aligned with enterprise strategy
• Manage the technical risk register and technical debt register
• Ensure consistency with security, performance, reliability and operational readiness requirements
• Lead architecture reviews and support Technical Design Authority submissions
• Translate business needs into clear, pragmatic technical designs
• Guide delivery teams and suppliers to ensure architectural intent is realised
• Produce high-quality architecture artefacts using consistent notation (Unified Modelling Language, Business Process Model and Notation,
• Ensure integration designs are robust, scalable and easy to operate
• Understand inventory flows, payments, offline-first design and retail reconciliation processes
• Shape data flows between inflight systems, retail platforms, ground systems, flight systems, retail platforms, ground systems and financial processes
• Ensure solutions work safely and reliably in an operational airline environment
• Mentor engineers and promote good architectural practice
• Support proof of concepts for new retail experiences, data insights, concepts for new retail experiences, data insights and crew tooling
• Improve documentation quality, pattern libraries and architecture processes

Requirements of the Role

What you’ll bring to the team

• Demonstrable experience as a Technical Architect or Senior Engineer
• Background in retail, ecommerce, payments, logistics-commerce, payments, logistics or transport
• Strong understanding of; integration patterns, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, data flows & domain-driven thinking
• Comfortable working with legacy systems and shaping their evolution
• Excellent communication and stakeholder influence
• Knowledge of mobile/edge devices
• Familiarity with downstream financial processing and reconciliation

What we can offer you

• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits

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