Solutions Architect

At easyJet, our goal is to inspire a whole generation of travellers to say yes to new experiences and opportunities. We want to strike a chord with people who have energy, passion and a relentless ambition to experience the world around them. People more than anything, who don't wait for things to happen. As Europe's leading airline, we operate on over 600 routes, flying on more of Europe's top 100 routes than any other airline. Connecting over 60 million people across more than 30 countries, easyJet has always been about opening up Europe so all of us can exercise our get-up-and-go.

Our Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for ensuring that all IT investments are co-ordinated and work towards our combined IT vision and strategy. Performing this task, in a company growing as fast as easyJet with a large dependency on IT, isn't easy and requires as much pragmatism as technical and domain expertise. The team's responsibilities include defining and communicating the IT strategy, road-mapping and acting as a technical design authority across the whole portfolio of change.

The role

This innovate team now require a Solution Architect to be responsible for end to end solution design. The Solution Architect will recommend the preferred solution, ensuring that it adheres to defined architecture standards and fits with the wider enterprise architecture and is aligned to business requirements (both current and future). By defining all elements of the solution, including (but not limited to) application components, logical data models, infrastructure and integration, you will take full ownership of the solution and communicate it to the delivery and service teams (both in house and third party). Working as one team,' you will contribute to the wider architecture function and help define the over-arching enterprise architecture standards and policies. Liaising with external parties, suppliers and internal members of the IT team and business units to research, define and document the systems architecture and high level designs for major new initiatives. This is a truly exciting time to join the IT team here at easyJet. You will be able to utilise cutting edge technology and be part of key IT programmes that span the business.

It is essential that you have experience of designing / implementing solutions using MS stack, including:

• C# .net (at least version 4)
• ASP.net MVC
• Web JS frameworks such as jquery, knockout etc
• WCF
• SQL Server
• Other .net based applications such as NServiceBus
• Must have experience of SOA, API Design and distributed architectures
• Practical experience of agile software development
• Demonstrable experience of designing high quality software solutions in line with business needs and timescales
• A good working knowledge of the airline and/ or eCommerce industry would be highly beneficial

Personal qualities:

• You must be confident in presenting technical architecture and strategy to both an IT and a business audience
• You will be creative, yet practical and pragmatic when problem solving
• You will have the ability to understand complex concepts and communicate them in a simple manner
• With a high degree of integrity, you will be delivery focused with a good sense of business acumen
• You must have experience of and a passion to deliver an exceptional service to internal customers/ stakeholders
• As an innovative and positive team player, you will be at ease with an easyJet culture that is informal, open, friendly and passionate

Our people are at the heart of our success and we think it's important that we share the benefits of this success with them. You'd expect us to offer great travel benefits but in addition to being able to climb on-board our flights at heavily reduced rates you'll also be able to take up reduced rates on holidays, car hire, hotels and even get a free easyJet Plus! card. Across our network we've offers and benefits specific to the countries we operate in. Beyond the financial benefits you'll be joining a vibrant, fast paced and forward thinking environment.