easyJet holidays is the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, with a mission to provide brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices in more than 100 destinations across Europe. We do this by combining easyJet’s vast flight programme with more than 5000 handpicked hotels and best-in-class technology to provide the perfect package holiday. We only launched in 2019 but already we have:

• Become the fastest growing, lowest cost, highest margin travel business in the UK
• Achieved milestone customer numbers and taken almost 2 million customers away in our latest full year of trading, delivering significant profits to the easyJet group
• Launched an award-winning sustainability strategy with a focus on making a positive impact on the local communities that make our holidays so special
• Doubled the size of our team year-on-year
• Expanded our business into Europe
• Been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 – called out as one of the most loved employers and highly commended as a great place to work for LGBTQIA employees, as well as being named the Best Workplace in Travel 2023 and 2024.

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!

At easyJet Holidays, our Technology Team is a dynamic group of practical and pragmatic architects responsible for making strategic technology decisions, designing solutions, and safeguarding architecture information across the organisation. We ensure the assurance and design of key products being developed, collaborating with multiple squads and liaising with key business stakeholders to meet their needs effectively.

We are seeking a Digital Architect specialised in the Digital domain to support our key strategic Commercial and Digital Product-driven initiatives. This role involves shaping the strategic direction for easyJet Holidays customer technology architecture and documenting our Digital technology landscape.

What youll be doing:
In this role, you will lead the technology strategy for end-to-end solutions in the Digital domain, working closely with technical leads and the Head of Architecture to drive long-term architectural direction. You will engage with the Commercial and Digital Product teams in technology discovery for new business ideas, providing conceptual solutions, options analysis, and guidance to realise our customer vision. Your responsibilities include producing high-quality, comprehensive solution design artefacts that balance different functional and non-functional drivers and requirements. You will provide architectural guidance to product teams and third-party vendors to ensure the delivered solution realises the design. Additionally, you will document and govern solutions across the customer domain and contribute to wider multi-domain governance across the easyJet Holidays technology landscape.

What you'll bring to the team:
You'll will have extensive experience in designing and 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, and Cloud Native Solutions. Experience with AWS solution architecture components, building internal and external third-party integration architectures, and Event Driven Architecture Design & API Design is essential. A practical understanding of Generative and Agentic AI technology, a background in software development, and experience in the travel, retail, or e-commerce industries are highly desirable.

What we can offer you
We offer a competitive base salary, up to 20% bonus, 25 days holiday, BAYE, SAYE and Performance share schemes, a 7% pension contribution, life assurance, a flexible benefits package, and excellent staff travel benefits.

Location & Hours of Work:
This full-time role is based in Luton (Hybrid Working) The role requires some occasional travel.

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