Enterprise Architect – Digital in Luton

We’re an ambitious bunch and we don’t intend on stopping here. We want to lead the industry, become the holiday provider of choice and to do this we’re building remarkable teams with modern ways of working. That’s where you come in!

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, we are looking for an Architect to join our growing Technology Team at easyJet Holidays. The team is a dynamic group of practical and pragmatic architects responsible for providing strategic technology decisions, providing solution design and being the custodians of architecture information across the organisation.

As the Enterprise Architect for the Digital Domain, you will be responsible for the Digital technology architecture strategy for easyJet Holidays, ensuring its alignment with both wider technology and business strategy. You will be responsible for working with our business on aiding ideation and discovery for key strategic Commercial initiatives. You will also be responsible for high level solution design for those key initiatives. The role will involve working with domain solution architects who are dedicated to solution design and the wider team comprising of Enterprise and Solution architects all reporting to the Head of Architecture.

The Digital domain at easyJet Holidays covers digital channels to merchandise and service our holiday products and include our Website and Mobile app architecture, partner APIs (all built in AWS), Digital Personalisation Platforms, Digital Asset Management, Product Inventory Platforms, Content Management Systems and integrations with core reservations platforms.

You will be responsible for all digital architecture design artefacts and ensuring all designs and design decisions are governed according to the practice. You will also be responsible for guiding solution architects in iterative product solution design.

Job Accountabilities

• To lead the technology strategy for end to end solutions in the Digital domain, working with technical leads covering each product under development, and the Head of Architecture driving the long-term architectural direction.
• Work with the Commercial and Digital teams in discovery for new business ideas and major Holidays initiatives, providing conceptual solutions, options analysis, estimation and guiding the business in realising the initiative vision.
• Produce high quality, comprehensive Solution designs artefacts demonstrating a balance of different functional & non-functional drivers and requirements, effective understanding of solution risk, and alignment to broader IT strategy and standards, delivered in an agile, Product-based framework.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the architecture wider architecture practice maintaining views of evolving Digital technology landscape, identifying patterns and standards and assuring digital design artefacts and design decisions are well documented and well governed.

Key Skills Required

• Experience of pragmatic architecture governance process in design governance, production of enterprise artefacts and maintenance of relevant architecture viewpoints.
• Demonstrable experience of leading major initiative discovery and experimentation.
• Demonstrable experience of designing high quality software solutions in-line with business needs and timescales.
• Ability to confidently present architecture and technology strategy to both IT and business audiences.
• The ability to understand complex concepts and communicate them in a simple manner to business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience of designing/implementing solutions, including:

• Large, multi-technology, multi-vendor solutions.
• Restful APIs and Microservices.
• Content Delivery Networks.
• Content Management Systems (e.g. Sitecore).
• Front End Frameworks (e.g. React).
• Caching & Search Solutions.
• Integration Service architectures and patterns.

Competencies

• Innovation & Change - Identifies opportunities within own area for continuously improving the way things are done, seeking to improve efficiency in everything that they do / Able to influence others to support the change by identifying the key stakeholders, explaining the rationale and the benefits of the change / Leads and supports change by explaining the need for change and understanding the impact on others / Comfortable working with high levels of ambiguity and change, and navigates a clear path through it.
• Ownership & Delivery - Consistently delivers in line with expectations / Communicates clear objectives to team members that are aligned to the broader objectives of the business / Monitors results, showing resilience to deal effectively with barriers and obstacles / Uses sound judgement to make timely decisions, when faced with incomplete information / Looks beyond the surface to identify and resolve the root cause of the problem, putting plans in place to ensure there is no recurrence.
• Building Relationships - Communicates effectively with others within own area, proactively sharing information with those who need to know / Establishes trust quickly by listening to others and working effectively with others within their function / Considers and uses the different views and perspectives of other people to enhance their own thinking / Builds strong working relationships with people within other teams to ensure own goals and those of others are delivered.

What we can offer you

• Competitive base salary.
• Up to 30% bonus.
• 25 days holiday.
• BAYE, SAYE and Performance share schemes.
• 7% pension.
• Life Assurance.
• Flexible benefits package.
• Excellent staff travel benefits.
• Bupa Private Health.

Location & Hours of Work

This full-time role will be based in Luton with some Hybrid working. The role will also require some occasional travel.