Tech Lead

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. 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.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, or Principle Engineer in large-scale operational or mission-critical systems.
• Strong background in software engineering, with expertise in at least one major development stack (e.g. Java,.NET, Python, Gourbi).
• Experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS) with strong knowledge of API integration, event-driven architecture, and microservices.
• Familiarity with airline or transport operations systems (crew, flight planning, disruption, scheduling) highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability).
• Strong understanding of scrum and agile ways of working, and able to help the team way of working
• Excellent problem-solving skills, able to assess trade-offs between time, cost, and technical debt.
• Ability to influence at multiple levels — from engineers to business leaders — by explaining technical concepts in clear, business-relevant terms.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers, creating high-performing delivery teams.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Insurance
• Work Away Scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits